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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217 resources
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Communication Access Plan for Meetings
A plan for making meetings accessible for participants with communication needs, covering preparation, communication methods, supports, the environment, pacing and checking understanding.
Communication access · Meeting preparation
For Speech pathologists
Communication Book Template
A low-tech communication book template with an about-me page, topic pages and blank symbol grids, plus guidance on organising pages and modelling.
AAC and aided language · Visual communication aids
For Speech pathologists
Communication Environment Audit
An audit for supported living, aged care and day programs on how well the environment supports communication, covering noise, light, visuals, AAC access, opportunities…
Communication environments · Communication partner strategies
For Speech pathologists
Communication Goal Tracker
A tracker for communication goals across settings, recording opportunities, the level of support needed and progress, shared between home, school and therapy.
Functional communication · Goal tracking
For Speech pathologists
Communication Partner Strategies Guide
A practical handout for families, support workers and teachers on how to be a better communication partner, with space to record strategies agreed for…
Communication partner strategies · Functional communication
For Speech pathologists
Communication Partner Training Session Plan
A session plan for training families, educators or support workers as communication partners, with learning goals, demonstration, practice with feedback and a take-home strategy.
Communication partner strategies · Communication partner training
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 Speech pathologists
Communication Success Stories Log
A log for families and teams to capture communication successes, big and small, with what happened, who was involved and what helped, to build…
Celebrating communication · Functional communication
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Communication Support Planning Guide
A planning guide that documents how a person communicates through behaviour, sounds, signs and words, what it might mean and how the team responds,…
Behaviour as communication · Functional communication
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Communication-Friendly Environment Checklist
A behaviour support checklist on whether the person has effective ways to request, refuse, ask for help and take breaks, and whether partners recognise…
Behaviour as communication · Communication and behaviour
For Occupational therapists
Community Access Confidence Plan
An OT-informed plan for building confidence in community settings step by step, from easier to harder places, with strategies, supports and reflection after each…
Community confidence · Community participation
For Occupational therapists
Community Mobility Plan
An OT-informed plan for getting around the community safely with mobility, sensory or cognitive changes, covering routes, aids, rest points, accessible facilities and a…
Community participation · Falls prevention
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 NDIS providers and support coordinators
Community Participation Planner
A participant-led planner for exploring interests and places in the community, identifying barriers and the supports needed, and planning first steps.
Community participation · Participant goals and planning
For Social workers
Complaint Letter Template
A plain-language complaint letter template clients can adapt, with guidance on describing what happened, the impact, what they want, deadlines and where to go…
Advocacy and self-advocacy · Complaints
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Complaints Register and Response Record
A complaints register and good-practice checklist that follow the NDIS complaints management rules, from acknowledgement and support to outcome, learning and 7-year records.
Audit readiness · Feedback and complaints
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Conflict of Interest Declaration and Register
A declaration form for directors, managers and workers, and a register showing how each actual or perceived conflict of interest is managed and explained…
Audit readiness · Conflicts of interest
For Speech pathologists
Conversation Repair Cards
Twelve printable cards with original symbols that help people keep conversations going when communication breaks down, for the person and their partners.
Communication partner strategies · Conversation supports
For Youth workers
Cooking on a Budget
A practical guide for young people cooking on a budget, with pantry staples, money-saving tips, three simple meal ideas and a weekly meal plan.
Budgeting and money · Independent living
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Coping Skills Teaching Plan
A plan for teaching a coping skill as a replacement for behaviours of concern, covering the skill, why it fits, teaching steps, practice when…
Proactive support strategies · Skill building
For Speech pathologists
Core Words Communication Board
A landscape core vocabulary board with 28 high-frequency words for modelling and communicating across routines, plus guidance on use and personalisation.
Core vocabulary · Visual communication aids
For Occupational therapists
Daily Planner for Memory Support
A clear one-page daily planner designed for people with memory difficulties, with the date, time-based plan, appointments, tasks, medication prompts and an end-of-day check.
Daily routines · Memory supports
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 NDIS providers and support coordinators
Daily Support Notes Template
A simple daily notes template for providers and workers linking supports delivered to the participant's goals, with the participant's comments, highlights and follow-ups.
Documentation and record keeping · Participant voice
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