Not meeting the access requirements isn't the end of the road. You still have options:

• Ask for a review: if you think the decision is wrong, you can request an internal review within three months. Plenty of access decisions change on review, especially with stronger evidence about how your disability affects daily life.
• Reapply when things change: if your situation or your evidence changes, you can make a new access request at any time.
• Community supports still exist: the NDIS funds community programs (through what's called ILC - Information, Linkages and Capacity Building) that anyone with disability can use, participant or not. State governments and mainstream services also provide disability supports outside the NDIS.
• For children: families of children under 9 can get support through the NDIS early childhood approach even without the child becoming a participant.