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 Community services and case workers
Getting Online Checklist
A digital inclusion checklist for clients, covering devices, data and internet, skills, setting up email and government accounts, staying safe and where to learn…
Digital inclusion · Online safety
For Occupational therapists
Getting Organised at Home
An OT-informed guide to organising belongings and spaces at home, with strategies such as a home for everything, labels, clear containers and daily reset…
Executive functioning · Home organisation
For Disability support workers
Getting Ready for Work Routine
A visual routine for getting ready for work or a day program, covering the night before, morning steps, what to bring and travel, with…
Daily routines · Employment
For Disability support workers
Getting Ready to Go Out Checklist
A visual checklist for getting ready to leave the house, covering personal items, weather, the plan for the outing and checking the home is…
Community participation · Independent living
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Getting to Know the Person: New Staff Plan
A plan for introducing new staff to a person with behaviour support needs, covering reading key documents, shadow shifts, shared activities, relationship building and…
Getting to know the person · Team training
For Disability support workers
Going to the Doctor (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide to going to the doctor: before, during and after the appointment, with space to write what to tell the doctor…
Accessible information · Health appointments
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Good Day and Hard Day Comparison
A landscape comparison of what a good day and a hard day look like for the person, across sleep, health, routine, people, environment and…
Environmental and contextual factors · Proactive support strategies
For Speech pathologists
Growing Choice-Making
A guide for families and teams to build choice-making skills step by step, from choosing between two real objects to choosing from symbols and…
Choice and control · Choice-making
For Occupational therapists
Habit Builder: Linking New Routines to Daily Anchors
A practical habit-building planner that links a small new routine to something the person already does every day, sets up the environment and tracks…
Daily routines · Habit development
For Disability support workers
Hand Washing Visual Steps
Clear visual steps for washing hands well, with a simple sequence, when to wash and teaching tips, for display above sinks.
Hygiene · Personal care and dignity
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Health and Pain Factors Checklist
A checklist prompting teams to consider health and pain factors that can contribute to distress or changes in behaviour, with signs to watch for…
Behaviour as communication · Health and behaviour
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Health and Wellbeing Goals Planner
A participant-led planner for health and wellbeing goals, covering physical activity, eating, sleep, health checks, mental wellbeing and the support needed.
Health and wellbeing goals · Participant goals and planning
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Hiring My Own Support Workers Checklist
A checklist for self-managing participants considering hiring support workers directly, covering roles, recruitment, screening, agreements, employer obligations, insurance and ongoing management.
Choice and control · Employing your own workers
For Disability support workers
Holiday Preparation Visual Plan
A visual plan for preparing for a holiday or trip away, covering where and when, travel, accommodation, what to pack, routines away from home…
Holidays and travel · Transitions
For Occupational therapists
Home and Environment Supports Checklist
A room-by-room checklist for identifying environmental barriers to everyday tasks and simple supports such as visual cues, storage, lighting and layout changes.
Home and environmental supports · Independent living
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Home and School Communication Book
A daily communication page for sharing information between home and school about sleep, mood, health, highlights and strategies that worked, keeping both settings consistent.
Home and school partnerships · Proactive support strategies
For Occupational therapists
Home Falls Prevention Self-Check
A room-by-room self-check for reducing falls risk at home, covering floors, lighting, bathrooms, stairs, the bedroom and outdoor areas, with an action plan.
Falls prevention · Home and environmental supports
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Home Safety, Infection Control and Environment Check
A regular walk-through check of a supported independent living home: fire and emergency, hazards, infection prevention and control, food safety, homeliness and privacy, and…
Home and environmental supports · Infection prevention and control
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
House Medication Audit Checklist
A monthly medication audit for supported independent living homes covering records, storage, administration, worker knowledge, errors and follow-up actions.
Audit readiness · Medication routines
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
House Meeting Record
An accessible record for house meetings in shared homes, with picture prompts for shared spaces, meals, visitors, worries and plans, and checks that everyone…
Meeting records · Shared living
For Disability support workers
Household Chores Visual Roster
A visual weekly roster for household chores with picture prompts, space for who does what each day and a simple done box, for shared…
Household tasks · Independent living
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Housemate Compatibility Reflection
A participant-led reflection for thinking about sharing a home: routines, noise, interests, privacy, visitors and support, to inform choices about who to live with.
Choice and control · Home and living
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
How I Like My Supports (Easy Read)
An Easy Read support preferences profile that helps a participant tell new workers and providers how they like to be supported, what matters to…
Choice and control · Service coordination
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Implementation Consistency Checklist
An observation checklist for checking whether behaviour support plan strategies are being used consistently, with supportive feedback and actions for training.
Implementation consistency · Proactive support strategies
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