NDIS Specialist Behaviour Support
Behaviour Support That Understands Function, Builds Skills, and Creates Meaningful Change
People Centred Therapies provides individualised specialist behaviour support focused on understanding why behaviours occur, reducing risks of harm, building functional skills, and improving quality of life.
Our behaviour support practitioners work with participants, families, carers, and support teams to understand the person and their circumstances, identify the variables influencing behaviour, and develop practical strategies that can be implemented within everyday life.
Why Behaviour Support Matters
Behaviours of concern can affect a person’s safety, relationships, independence, community participation, living arrangements, and access to meaningful activities.
Effective behaviour support looks beyond the behaviour itself. It considers what the person may be communicating or achieving through the behaviour, the circumstances in which it occurs, the skills currently available to them, and how the environment and responses of others may influence what happens.
Our focus is not simply on reducing behaviour. We aim to understand why the behaviour is occurring and what can be changed, taught, or supported differently so the participant has more effective ways to communicate, participate, exercise choice, and access meaningful outcomes.
How We Deliver Behaviour Support
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We begin by understanding the participant’s strengths, goals, preferences, communication, health, routines, relationships, environment, support network, functional abilities, and quality of life.
Behaviour is considered within the broader context of the person rather than treated as an isolated problem.
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We use consultation, observation, behaviour data, record review, and appropriate behavioural assessment methods to identify patterns and develop evidence-informed hypotheses about why behaviour occurs.
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Assessment findings inform proactive strategies, environmental changes, skill development, functional communication, reinforcement, responses to behaviour, and support-network training.
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Behaviour support should remain responsive to evidence. We monitor participant outcomes and implementation, review whether strategies are working, and change our approach when the evidence indicates there is a better way forward.
Our Behaviour Support Services
PCT provides behaviour support assessment, planning, intervention, training, and outcomes reporting according to the participant’s needs, goals, behavioural presentation, and current stage of support.
Select a service below to learn more about what it involves and how it may support the participant.
Behaviour Needs Assessments
A structured assessment completed by a behaviour support practitioner to determine whether specialist behaviour support is clinically indicated and what type and level of support may be required.
The assessment considers behaviours of concern, risk, current supports, daily functioning, communication, health, restrictive practices, and the participant’s broader circumstances.
Functional Behaviour Assessments
A comprehensive behavioural assessment used to understand what influences behaviour, the outcomes it may produce for the participant, and the broader circumstances in which it occurs.
Findings provide the clinical foundation for individualised, function-based behaviour support.
Behaviour Support Plans
Individualised Interim and Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plans that translate behavioural assessment into practical strategies for everyday implementation.
Plans may include proactive strategies, skill development, environmental changes, reactive strategies, implementation guidance, monitoring, and restrictive practice reduction where relevant.
Functional Communication Training
Structured teaching of practical communication responses that allow the participant to achieve important outcomes in more effective ways.
Communication skills are matched to behavioural function and supported through prompting, reinforcement, systematic teaching, generalisation, and progress measurement.
Functional Daily Living Skills Acquisition
Structured development of practical daily living skills that may improve independence, participation, safety, and quality of life.
PCT may use skill assessment, task analysis, prompting, reinforcement, repeated practice, and progress tracking to systematically build greater independence.
Behaviour Support Staff Training
Practical training that helps families, support workers, and other relevant people implement behaviour support strategies and skill-development programs consistently.
Training may include instruction, modelling, rehearsal, feedback, competency assessment, and ongoing coaching.
Outcomes Reporting
Structured evaluation of participant progress, behaviour support outcomes, barriers, risks, implementation, and future support needs.
Outcomes Reports use available evidence to determine what has changed, what has affected progress, and what clinical direction may be required next.
How Behaviour Support May Help
Specialist behaviour support may be appropriate when a participant requires support to:
Understand behaviours of concern and the circumstances in which they occur
Reduce risks of harm to themselves or other people
Develop more effective communication
Build functional daily living skills
Increase participation in home, community, education, or employment
Develop alternatives to behaviours of concern
Improve choice, autonomy, and quality of life
Establish more effective routines and environmental supports
Support families and staff to respond more consistently
Reduce reliance on restrictive practices
Review strategies that are not producing meaningful outcomes
Measure behavioural and skill-development progress over time
What to Expect From PCT Behaviour Support
Step 1: Submit a Referral
Complete the referral form with information about the participant, current concerns, requested behaviour support service, and location in which support is required.
Step 2: We Review the Referral
Our team reviews the information provided and contacts the nominated person to discuss service suitability, current practitioner availability, and the next steps.
Step 3: Initial Consultation
The behaviour support practitioner meets with the participant and, where appropriate, relevant members of their support network to understand the referral, current circumstances, goals, behaviours of concern, and existing supports.
Step 4: Assessment and Intervention
The practitioner completes the assessment or intervention appropriate to the participant’s needs. This may include behavioural assessment, Behaviour Support Plan development, skill development, implementation support, or staff training.
Step 5: Monitor, Review, and Adapt
Behavioural data, participant outcomes, implementation, and feedback are reviewed over time. Strategies and intervention are refined where required, and Outcomes Reporting may be completed when formal evidence of progress and future support needs is required.
Behaviour Support Service Areas
People Centred Therapies provides community-based specialist behaviour support across Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan, the Gold Coast, and Toowoomba.
Our service area includes all suburbs across Ipswich, Logan, and the Gold Coast, as well as our Brisbane and Toowoomba service regions.
Service commencement remains subject to the type of support requested and current behaviour support practitioner capacity.
Looking for NDIS Specialist Behaviour Support?
Complete our referral form to tell us about the participant, their current circumstances, the behaviour support service being requested, and the location in which support is required.
Our team will review the referral and contact the nominated person to discuss availability and the next steps.