Disability Minister Joy Burch will announce the funding on Monday, including $1.6 million over three years for the continuation of the therapy assistants program and $2.84 million over two years for emergency responses for disability services for Canberrans requiring urgent increases in care and support levels.

A further $555,000 will also be allocated for the NDIS trial.

The ACT government will also provide funding for a purpose-built respite home for children with a disability.

Preparations for the ACT to become the first jurisdiction in Australia to accept all eligible people into the NDIS continue before the July 1 commencement.

As many as 5000 people will be part of the scheme, which will also see a phased withdrawal of all government services in accommodation support, therapy services and early childhood intervention programs from the end of this year.

Government-provided services will move to private providers by 2017, giving participants the ability to choose the services they need using NDIS funding.

“The NDIS will fundamentally change the way disability services are provided,” Ms Burch said.

“The Therapy Assistants Program provides school-based therapy programs for children from vulnerable families who have developmental delays or disability.

“An evaluation out of the pilot run in 2011-12 showed that 40 per cent of the 270 students who were supported through the program were receiving a therapy service for the first time.”

Ms Burch said early intervention programs helped address challenges faced by children with developmental delays or a disability.

“We have committed $1.075 million in 2014-15 to ensure carers of children with disability have better access to respite services and importantly improve outcomes for children with disability.”

A further $2.245 million is committed to fully fund indexation for community sector disability service organisations to ensure they continue to provide services to their clients prior to them phasing to the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Ms Burch has previously rejected calls from families of children participating in early intervention disability programs to delay the government’s withdrawal from the services by a year, to 2015.

Services delivered by the Education Directorate for pre-preschool children will cease at the end of the 2014 school year, in an effort to allow private providers to establish programs in Canberra.

Services delivered by Therapy ACT staff will continue.

As part of the changes, 27 teachers and 23 support staff working in early intervention services will move to mainstream education positions.

Opposition disability spokesman Andrew Wall has backed calls for a delay, and the ACT Legislative Assembly e-petition has collected more than 1100 signatures calling for a one-year delay.

In response to the petition, Ms Burch has previously said the government will work with families and carers to assist during the transition.

She encouraged parents and carers of children with autism or Aspergers to attend a forum on Monday with representatives of KPMG, Disability ACT and the National Disability Insurance Agency.

The NDIS Community gets under way on Monday, at 12pm at the Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning, 51 Fremantle Drive, Stirling.