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 Speech pathologists
My Communication Card
A wallet-sized communication card the person can show to others, explaining how they communicate and how others can help, with space for an emergency…
Communication cards and passports · Communication partner strategies
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
My Goals in My Words
A participant-led goal exploration guide that works through life areas, what is working and what the person would like to change, then shapes their…
Choice and control · Goal setting
For Disability support workers
My Health Information Profile
A person-centred health profile to take to appointments and hospital, covering communication, health conditions, medicines, allergies, how to support the person and who to…
Health appointments · Health communication
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
My Home, My Supports (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide for people living in supported independent living about their rights at home: separate agreements, keys, private space, visitors, house meetings,…
Rights · Supported independent living (SIL)
For Disability support workers
My Rights (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide to everyday rights for people with disability, including respect, choice, privacy, safety, speaking up and being included, with space to…
Accessible information · Advocacy and self-advocacy
For Disability support workers
My Sensory Kit Planner
A planner for putting together a personal sensory kit with items that help the person feel calm or alert, where to keep it and…
Proactive support strategies · Sensory preferences
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
My Voice in Progress Reports
A participant input template for provider progress reports, so the person's own views on goals, supports, what is working and what they want next…
Advocacy and self-advocacy · Participant voice
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
NDIS Audit Evidence Index (Core Module)
A one-place index of the evidence a registered provider holds for each Core Module Practice Standard: what it is, where it is kept, who…
Audit readiness · Documentation and record keeping
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
New Housemate Consultation Record
A record of how current residents were consulted before a new housemate moves into a shared home, and how everyone's needs, preferences and safety…
Shared living · Specialist disability accommodation (SDA)
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
One-Page Person Profile
A one-page profile capturing who the person is, what matters to them, what a good day looks like, how they communicate and the support…
Choice and control · Person-centred planning
For Community services and case workers
Outreach Visit Safety Checklist
A worker safety checklist for home and outreach visits, covering planning, check-in systems, arriving, during the visit, leaving if unsafe and debriefing.
Worker safety
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Participant Money and Property Record
A record for handling a participant's money and property in a shared home: what the person has agreed to, every transaction with receipts, monthly…
Budgeting and money · Rights
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Participant Satisfaction Check-In
A short, accessible check-in for providers and support coordinators to ask participants how their supports are going, what is working, what is not and…
Feedback and complaints · Participant satisfaction
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Participation Log
A log for recording community and social participation, linked to the participant's goals, with their own comments on what they enjoyed and what they…
Community participation · Participant voice
For Allied health and multidisciplinary teams
Person-Centred Language Guide for Clinicians
A practical guide to respectful, person-centred language in conversations and records, with common phrases to rethink, alternatives, and guidance on asking people how they…
Documentation and record keeping · Respectful language
For Disability support workers
Personal Care Preferences Profile
A respectful profile that records how a person likes to be supported with showering, dressing, grooming and other personal care, with privacy and dignity…
Choice and control · Personal care and dignity
For Disability support workers
Personal Hygiene Visual Checklist
A visual daily and weekly hygiene checklist covering showering, teeth, deodorant, hair, nails and clean clothes, with privacy and dignity reminders for supporters.
Daily routines · Hygiene
For Disability support workers
Personal Safety (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide to personal safety at home, in the community and online, covering trusted people, emergencies, strangers, money safety and telling someone…
Accessible information · Personal safety
For Speech pathologists
Phone and Video Call Planner
A planner that helps people with communication difficulties prepare for phone and video calls, with scripts, supports, practice steps and options such as captions…
Conversation supports · Functional communication
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Plan Budget Tracker
A participant-friendly budget tracker for keeping an eye on plan spending by support type, month by month, with space for notes and questions.
Budgeting and money · Service coordination
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Planning Meeting Preparation Pack
A practical pack that helps participants and supporters prepare for a planning or review meeting: what has changed, what to bring, questions to ask…
Advocacy and self-advocacy · Choice and control
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Positive Interactions Tracker
A simple tracker for teams to notice and increase positive interactions with the person they support, with tallies for positive and corrective interactions and…
Positive interactions · Proactive support strategies
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Practice Leader Observation Record (SIL)
An observation and coaching record for house leaders: what good support looks like in a person's home, what was seen on shift, feedback given…
Active support and engagement · Practice leadership
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Predictability Supports Plan
A plan for making a person's days more predictable, covering schedules, warnings before changes, consistent routines, preparing for new events and handling unexpected changes.
Predictability · Proactive support strategies
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