For Disability support workers
Bedtime Routine Visual Sequence
A printable visual bedtime sequence with original symbols, blank cards for personal steps and guidance on building a calm, predictable wind-down.
Daily routines · Sleep and rest
Profession
Disability support workers
Practical, respectful visual supports and planning tools for daily living, choice-making and independence.
Good support is built on knowing what matters to each person and how they like to be supported. These resources focus on daily living, visual routines, choice-making, communication preferences and community participation, written in plain, respectful language.
Many are designed to be completed with the person, not about them, and can be adapted with photos, symbols or objects.
Focus areas
- Daily living
- Visual routines
- Choice and autonomy
- Communication preferences
- Community participation
- Building independence
Scope: General support tools. Follow the person's support plan and any guidance from their allied health and behaviour support practitioners.
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For Disability support workers
Body Autonomy and Saying No (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide about the right to decide what happens to your body, saying no, private parts and privacy, consent for personal care…
Body autonomy · Personal care and dignity
For Disability support workers
Budget Basics (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide to making a simple budget: money coming in, money going out, saving and getting help, with a simple weekly budget…
Accessible information · Budgeting and money
For Disability support workers
Calm Together: Visual Co-Regulation Support
A visual co-regulation tool with a choice strip the person can use to show what they need when distressed, plus a worker guide and…
Co-regulation · Emotional regulation
For Disability support workers
Changes to My Routine Visual Support
A visual support for explaining changes to a person's routine, showing what is usually happening, what is different today and what stays the same,…
Changes to routine · Predictability
For Disability support workers
Cleaning Checklist (Visual)
A visual room-by-room cleaning checklist with picture prompts for kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living areas, and daily and weekly tick boxes.
Cleaning and home care · Household tasks
Disability support workers
Core resources
Resources designed first and foremost for this profession.
For Disability support workers
Active Support Planning Guide
A guide for support workers on active support: offering opportunities, breaking tasks into steps, giving just enough help and encouraging participation in everyday activities.
Active support and engagement · Skill building
For Disability support workers
Communication Preferences Worksheet (Easy Read)
An Easy Read worksheet that helps a person tell others how they like to communicate, what helps them understand and what makes it harder.
Communication skills
For Disability support workers
Community Outing Plan
A visual plan for a community outing, covering where, when, who, what to bring, accessibility, costs, the plan for breaks and what to do…
Community participation · Leisure and recreation
For Disability support workers
Daily Routine Visual Planner
A printable visual planner for mapping out a day in clear, predictable steps, with space for times, activities and a tick when each step…
Daily routines · Executive functioning
For Disability support workers
Doing the Laundry Visual Steps
Clear visual steps for doing a load of laundry, from sorting clothes to putting them away, with space for the person's own machine settings…
Independent living · Laundry and clothing care
For Disability support workers
Feelings Thermometer
A visual five-level feelings thermometer from calm to very upset, with space to record what each level looks like for the person and what…
Co-regulation · Emotional regulation
Topics in this collection
- AAC and aided language
- AAC maintenance
- Accessible information
- Active support and engagement
- Advance care planning
- Advocacy and self-advocacy
- Aphasia
- Appointment information
- Assistive technology
- Audit readiness
- Bathing and showering
- Behaviour as communication
- Body autonomy
- Breaking down goals
- Budgeting and money
- Capacity building
- Carer wellbeing
- Celebrating communication
- Changes to routine
- Choice and control
- Choice-making
- Choosing providers
- Cleaning and home care
- Client engagement
- Clinical and professional supervision
- Clinician wellbeing
- Co-regulation
- Communicating feelings
- Communication access
- Communication and behaviour
- Communication cards and passports
- Communication environments
- Communication partner strategies
- Communication partner training
- Communication skills
- Community confidence
- Community participation
- Complaints
- Conflicts of interest
- Conversation supports
- Core vocabulary
- Daily routines
- Data collection training
- Data review
- Debriefing and staff wellbeing
- Demands and expectations
- Dementia
- Digital inclusion
- Dignity of risk
- Documentation and record keeping
- Dressing
- Early language
- Elder abuse
- Emergency preparedness
- Emotional literacy
- Emotional regulation
- Employing your own workers
- Employment
- Energy conservation
- Environmental and contextual factors
- Environmental changes
- Equipment instructions
- Excursions and events
- Executive functioning
- Exposure and avoidance
- Falls prevention
- Family and carer involvement
- Family routines
- Feedback and complaints
- Financial hardship
- Functional communication
- Gesture and key word signing
- Getting to know the person
- Goal setting
- Goal tracking
- Habit development
- Handling complaints
- Health and behaviour
- Health and wellbeing goals
- Health appointments
- Health communication
- Health literacy
- Healthy relationships
- Holidays and travel
- Home and environmental supports
- Home and living
- Home and school partnerships
- Home organisation
- Household tasks
- Housing and practical stability
- Hygiene
- Implementation consistency
- Incident management
- Independent living
- Infection prevention and control
- Intake and needs identification
- Interests and groups
- Introducing AAC
- Kitchen and meal preparation
- Kitchen safety
- Language-rich routines
- Laundry and clothing care
- Leisure and recreation
- Life roles
- Meaningful days
- Medication routines
- Meeting preparation
- Meeting records
- Memory supports
- Moving home
- Observation and data collection
- Online safety
- Outings
- Pain and pacing
- Participant goals and planning
- Participant satisfaction
- Participant voice
- Participation goals
- Participation records
- Person-centred planning
- Personal care and dignity
- Personal safety
- Plain language information
- Plan budgets
- Plan management
- Positive interactions
- Practice leadership
- Predictability
- Preference exploration
- Proactive support strategies
- Professional boundaries
- Progress review
- Quality improvement
- Quality of life
- Records and invoices
- Recruiting workers
- Reflective practice
- Relationship mapping
- Respectful language
- Rights
- Rostering and scheduling
- Safeguarding
- Scams and fraud
- Self-coordination
- Sensory environments
- Sensory preferences
- Service agreements
- Service coordination
- Service navigation
- Shared decision-making
- Shared living
- Shift handover
- Shopping and meals
- Short stays
- Skill building
- Sleep and rest
- Sleep routines
- Social communication
- Specialist disability accommodation (SDA)
- Speech clarity
- Strengths profiles
- Strengths-based practice
- Support mapping
- Support networks
- Supported decision-making
- Supported independent living (SIL)
- Task sequencing
- Teaching coping skills
- Team communication
- Team training
- Team wellbeing
- Tenancy rights
- The support worker role
- Time and waiting supports
- Toileting
- Transitions
- Trauma-aware support
- Trauma-informed practice
- Travel and transport
- Turn-taking
- Using the phone
- Values in support work
- Visual communication aids
- Visual schedules
- Visual stories
- Volunteering
- Waiting
- Wellbeing and self-care
- What motivates me
- Work routines
- Worker induction
- Worker safety
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AAC Device Care Checklist
A daily and weekly checklist for keeping AAC devices and systems charged, clean, protected, backed up and always available, with a troubleshooting and contacts…
AAC and aided language · AAC maintenance
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
ABC Observation Record (Practice Template)
A landscape practice template for recording what happens before, during and after a behaviour of concern in objective, respectful language, with a weekly reflection…
Behaviour as communication · Observation and data collection
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Accessible Participant Feedback Form
An accessible feedback form with faces, simple questions and space for compliments, concerns and ideas, explaining how feedback is used and other ways to…
Accessible information · Feedback and complaints
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Active Engagement Planner
A shift-level planner for support staff mapping engagement opportunities hour by hour, the level of support for each and who will offer them, to…
Active support and engagement · Meaningful days
For Disability support workers
Active Support Planning Guide
A guide for support workers on active support: offering opportunities, breaking tasks into steps, giving just enough help and encouraging participation in everyday activities.
Active support and engagement · Skill building
For Social workers
Advance Care Planning Conversation Starter
A gentle conversation starter for exploring values, wishes and who should speak for a person if they cannot, as a first step before formal…
Advance care planning · Shared decision-making
For Speech pathologists
Aided Language Modelling Guide
A practical guide for families, teachers and support workers on modelling language on a person's AAC system while talking, with tips, examples and a…
AAC and aided language · Communication partner strategies
For Speech pathologists
Aphasia: Tips for Families
A plain-language handout for families and friends of people with aphasia, explaining what aphasia is and practical ways to support conversation and participation.
Aphasia · Communication partner strategies
For Occupational therapists
Bathing Strategies and Safety
An OT-informed guide to safer, more manageable showering and bathing, covering setup, equipment, energy, temperature safety, dignity and privacy, with a planning table.
Bathing and showering · Falls prevention
For Disability support workers
Bedtime Routine Visual Sequence
A printable visual bedtime sequence with original symbols, blank cards for personal steps and guidance on building a calm, predictable wind-down.
Daily routines · Sleep and rest
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Behaviour as Communication Reflection Guide
A reflection guide for practitioners and support teams to explore what a behaviour of concern might be communicating, and how to respond.
Behaviour as communication · Trauma-informed practice
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Behaviour Support Plain Language Glossary
A plain-language glossary of common behaviour support terms for people, families and new staff, from functional assessment and proactive strategies to regulated restrictive practices.
Accessible information · Plain language information
For Disability support workers
Body Autonomy and Saying No (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide about the right to decide what happens to your body, saying no, private parts and privacy, consent for personal care…
Body autonomy · Personal care and dignity
For Disability support workers
Budget Basics (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide to making a simple budget: money coming in, money going out, saving and getting help, with a simple weekly budget…
Accessible information · Budgeting and money
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Budget Conversation Guide
A guide for support coordinators helping participants understand and use their plan budgets, covering what the plan funds, tracking spending, flexibility questions and avoiding…
Capacity building · Plan budgets
For Disability support workers
Calm Together: Visual Co-Regulation Support
A visual co-regulation tool with a choice strip the person can use to show what they need when distressed, plus a worker guide and…
Co-regulation · Emotional regulation
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Capacity-Building Goal Breakdown
A planner for breaking a participant's capacity-building goal into small steps, with the support needed for each step, how progress will be noticed and…
Breaking down goals · Capacity building
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Capacity-Building Progress Conversation Guide
A participant-led conversation guide for reviewing progress in capacity-building supports: what has been learned, what is easier, what is still hard and what comes…
Capacity building · Progress review
For Disability support workers
Changes to My Routine Visual Support
A visual support for explaining changes to a person's routine, showing what is usually happening, what is different today and what stays the same,…
Changes to routine · Predictability
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Changing Providers Checklist
A participant-led checklist for changing NDIS providers smoothly: reasons and goals, checking the service agreement, finding a new provider, handover and avoiding gaps in…
Choice and control · Service coordination
For Allied health and multidisciplinary teams
Checking Understanding Prompts
A set of prompt cards for checking understanding with people who have communication or cognitive difficulties, covering question styles, signs of misunderstanding and adjustments.
Communication partner strategies · Health literacy
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Choice-Making Opportunities Plan
A plan for building more real choices into a person's day, mapping current choices, new opportunities, how choices are offered and how the person's…
Choice and control · Proactive support strategies
For Disability support workers
Cleaning Checklist (Visual)
A visual room-by-room cleaning checklist with picture prompts for kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living areas, and daily and weekly tick boxes.
Cleaning and home care · Household tasks
For Speech pathologists
Commenting and Sharing Practice
A guide for communication partners building commenting and sharing skills through shared activities, with comment words to model and a practice planning table.
AAC and aided language · Communication partner strategies
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