Building Homes With Foundational Supports

The  majority of autistic people are not deemed eligible for NDIS, and are told  that "foundational supports" should cover their significant support and  community access needs.

These  foundational supports still don't exist, there's no model for them  (there is a concept of plans for foundational supports for children, far  from being realised or comprehensive) outside of the one I've developed  in Autistic Haus.

For this role I completed studies in Business in Design at ISCD, and I am endorsed by international leaders in the field of autism such as Professor Tony Attwood who has decades of  experience. Together with our board and community we have a meticulous ready-to-build housing model  with inclusive supports and specifically designed for autistic  accessibility to reduce processing burdens.

Autistic  people process environments differently, and generate significantly  more information in response to stimuli, compared to typically developing populations.

Navigating  surroundings which don't account for our unique relationships with the  spaces we occupy places a huge and debilitating weight on the  distinctive autistic nervous system. 

By creating central communal facilities, we boost the resources available to everyone while making the most of nature-set small homes, and unlocking a locus for delivering support with maximum efficiency. Adaptively including low and high support needs as well as  accommodating co-occurring conditions from the ground up means we save the  government money, carers from ongoing stress, worry and exhausting  heartache, and most importantly optimise the capacity and daily lives of our  autistic residents. Our unique model excludes no autistic person and saves NDIS costs for residents who do have individual plans.

We  are a start up initiative, a DGR registered charity with a 100%  volunteer board of members and directors who all have lived experience with disability,  neurodiversity, or caring for people who do.