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 Positive behaviour support practitioners
Data Collection Training Guide
A guide for behaviour support practitioners training teams to collect reliable, respectful data, covering why data matters, definitions, recording methods, practice and checking agreement.
Data collection training · Observation and data collection
For Occupational therapists
Dementia-Friendly Home Supports
An OT-informed guide to adapting the home for people living with dementia, covering lighting, contrast, signage, reducing clutter, safety, routines and wayfinding.
Dementia · Falls prevention
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Dignity of Risk and Safeguarding Plan (SIL)
A plan made with a person in supported independent living that respects their choice to take a risk, lists the safeguards they agree to,…
Dignity of risk · Safeguarding
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 Occupational therapists
Dressing Strategies Guide
An OT-informed guide to making dressing easier, covering positioning, clothing choices, sequencing, aids and energy saving, with a planning table for individual strategies.
Dressing · Independent living
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Duration Recording Sheet
A landscape sheet for recording how long a clearly defined behaviour or activity lasts, with start and end times, context and notes for review.
Observation and data collection
For Social workers
Elder Abuse Awareness Guide
A practitioner guide to recognising and responding to elder abuse, covering forms of abuse, signs, talking with the older person, rights and choice, safety…
Elder abuse · Safeguarding
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Plan
A person-centred plan for emergencies and disasters, covering support needs, communication, medication and equipment, evacuation, who to contact and an emergency kit.
Emergency preparedness · Person-centred planning
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Engagement Observation Record
A landscape time-sampling record for observing whether a person is engaged at set intervals, with the type of support offered, to measure and improve…
Active support and engagement · Observation and data collection
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Environmental Change Trial Record
A record for trialling one change to a person's environment at a time, describing the change, baseline, observations over the trial and a decision…
Environmental changes · Proactive support strategies
For Occupational therapists
Equipment Use Instructions Template
A template for clear, illustrated instructions for using equipment such as hoists, shower chairs or mobility aids, covering purpose, safety checks, steps, cleaning and…
Assistive technology · Equipment instructions
For Speech pathologists
Everyday Choice Board
A printable choice board with twelve original symbols for everyday needs and responses, plus blank spaces and practitioner guidance on modelling and personalising.
Choice and control · Functional communication
For Speech pathologists
Everyday Communication Situations Planner
A participation-focused planner for choosing everyday communication situations to work on, planning what to say and which supports to use, and reflecting on how…
Conversation supports · Functional communication
For Educators and school support staff
Excursion Visual Story
A visual story template for preparing students for an excursion, covering getting there, what will happen, what they might see and hear, who will…
Excursions and events · Transitions
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Family Input Form for Behaviour Support
A form for families to share their knowledge of the person: strengths, history, what helps, triggers, communication, family priorities and concerns, for behaviour support…
Family and carer involvement · Proactive support strategies
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Feedback and Complaints (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide for participants on giving feedback and making complaints: your right to speak up, how to do it, what happens next…
Accessible information · Advocacy and self-advocacy
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
For Speech pathologists
Feelings Words Board
A visual communication board of feelings words with symbols, from happy and calm to worried, angry and sick, for people to show how they…
Communicating feelings · Emotional literacy
For Disability support workers
Finding Groups and Interests
A visual worksheet for exploring interests and finding local groups and activities, with picture prompts, questions to ask and a plan to try a…
Community participation · Interests and groups
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
First Meeting with a New Provider
A provider guide for first meetings with participants, with checklists for before, during and after the meeting focused on getting to know the person…
Choosing providers · Client engagement
For Disability support workers
First, Then Visual Board
A printable first, then board that shows what is happening now and what comes next, to support transitions and predictability.
Behaviour as communication · Daily routines
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Frequency Count Sheet
A landscape tally sheet for counting how often a clearly defined behaviour happens in each session or shift, with totals, notes and space for…
Observation and data collection
For Disability support workers
Friendships and Relationships (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide about friendships and relationships: what good friends do, respect, saying no, consent, and what to do if a relationship does…
Accessible information · Healthy relationships
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Functional Assessment Preparation Checklist
A checklist to help behaviour support practitioners and teams prepare the information, consent, observations and interviews needed before a functional behaviour assessment.
Behaviour as communication · Observation and data collection
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