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
Incident Register and Review Log
An incident register built around the details the NDIS incident management rules require, with reportable incident dates and a review section for learning and…
Audit readiness · Incident management
For Disability support workers
Independent Living Skills Checklist
A strengths-focused checklist for exploring independent living skills across home, money, health, community and safety, and choosing goals.
Daily routines · Goal setting
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Interests and Motivators Inventory
An informal inventory of what a person enjoys across activities, people, places, objects, sensory experiences and routines, and how the team knows, to build…
Quality of life · Skill building
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Interview Questions for Support Workers
A participant-led set of interview questions for choosing support workers, covering experience, values, communication, reliability and fit, with a simple scoring sheet.
Choice and control · Employing your own workers
For Speech pathologists
Introducing AAC: Team Plan
A team plan for introducing AAC, covering the system, core words to model, routines for modelling, who does what, access and availability, and review…
AAC and aided language · Introducing AAC
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Invoice and Records Organiser
An organiser for self-managing participants and nominees to track invoices, payments, receipts and service agreements, with a monthly checklist and budget tracking.
Plan management · Records and invoices
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Is It a Reportable Incident? Decision Guide
A one-page flowchart for team leaders and workers: make people safe, decide whether an incident is reportable to the NDIS Commission and know the…
Incident management · Safeguarding
For Disability support workers
Kitchen Safety Visual Guide
A visual guide to key kitchen safety habits, from handwashing and knife safety to stove and kettle safety, food storage and what to do…
Independent living · Kitchen and meal preparation
For Occupational therapists
Kitchen Task Adaptations
An OT-informed guide to adapting kitchen tasks for safety and independence, covering positioning, equipment, organisation, energy and safety, with a task planning table.
Energy conservation · Independent living
For Speech pathologists
Language-Rich Routines at Home
A guide for families to build language into everyday routines, such as mealtimes, bath time, dressing and shopping, with words to use and strategies…
Early language · Family routines
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Leaving Support Coordination Plan
A capacity-building plan for participants working towards coordinating their own supports, mapping skills, practice tasks, supports needed and how responsibility will be handed over.
Capacity building · Choice and control
For Disability support workers
Leisure Choice Board
A visual board of leisure activities for supporting choice, with blank tiles for the person's own favourites and a simple record of choices and…
Choice and control · Leisure and recreation
For Occupational therapists
Leisure Interests Explorer
An explorer for discovering past, current and new leisure interests across categories, with ticks for done before, want to try and not for me,…
Community participation · Leisure and recreation
For Disability support workers
Making a Complaint (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide to speaking up when something is not right in everyday life, from shops to health and housing services, with simple…
Accessible information · Advocacy and self-advocacy
For Disability support workers
Making a Phone Call Visual Steps
Visual steps and a simple script for making a phone call, such as booking an appointment, with space to write what to say and…
Functional communication · Independent living
For Disability support workers
Making a Sandwich Visual Steps
Clear visual steps for making a simple sandwich, from washing hands to cleaning up, with space for the person's own filling choices and teaching…
Independent living · Task sequencing
For Occupational therapists
Meaningful Activities in Dementia
An OT-informed guide for families and carers on meaningful activities for people living with dementia, drawing on life history, abilities and interests, with adaptation…
Dementia · Life roles
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Meaningful Day Planner
A planner for building days around the person's interests and goals, mapping a typical day, adding meaningful activities, roles and connections, and reviewing engagement.
Active support and engagement · Meaningful days
For Disability support workers
Medication Routine Visual Support
A visual daily routine for a person's medication times, with symbol prompts, a tick chart and a notes section for workers, for use within…
Daily routines · Medication routines
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Meeting Notes Template (Participant-Friendly)
A plain-language meeting notes template for meetings with participants, covering who came, what we talked about, what was decided, who will do what and…
Accessible information · Meeting records
For Occupational therapists
Memory Aids Planner
An OT-informed planner for choosing and setting up memory aids for everyday tasks, from calendars and checklists to phone reminders and routines, with a…
Executive functioning · Independent living
For Disability support workers
Money Handling Practice
Visual practice with Australian coins and notes, simple paying and change scenarios, and tips for building confidence with money at the shops.
Budgeting and money · Independent living
For Disability support workers
Morning Routine Visual Sequence
A printable visual sequence for a morning routine with original symbols, blank cards for personal steps and guidance on teaching and fading support.
Daily routines · Visual schedules
For Social workers
Moving Home Checklist
A practical moving checklist for clients and workers, covering timelines, bond and leases, utilities, mail, services to update, packing and settling in to a…
Housing and practical stability · Moving home
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