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
Preference Exploration Record
An informal landscape record for offering choices and noting how the person responds, to discover what they genuinely enjoy and build more of it…
Choice and control · Preference exploration
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Proactive Strategies Planner
A team planner for strategies that make good days more likely: changes to environments, routines, communication, choice and meaningful activity.
Environmental and contextual factors · Proactive support strategies
For Allied health and multidisciplinary teams
Professional Boundaries Reflection
A reflection for practitioners on professional boundaries, covering gifts, self-disclosure, social media, dual relationships, contact outside work and warning signs, for supervision.
Clinical and professional supervision · Professional boundaries
For Disability support workers
Public Transport Travel Plan
A visual travel plan for a regular public transport trip, with step-by-step journey boxes, what to bring, what to do if something goes wrong…
Community participation · Independent living
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Quality of Life Goals Planner
A person-centred planner that explores what a good life looks like across eight areas and turns it into goals and proactive supports for behaviour…
Participant goals and planning · Quality of life
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Quality of Life Observation Checklist
A checklist for teams to reflect on a person's quality of life across eight areas, from emotional and physical wellbeing to relationships, inclusion, choice…
Proactive support strategies · Quality of life
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Questions to Ask a New Provider
A participant-facing question guide for meeting a possible new provider, covering the support, workers, costs, communication, cancellations and concerns, with space to compare providers.
Choice and control · Choosing providers
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Reducing Demands Reflection
A team reflection on the demands placed on a person, such as tasks, rules, expectations and requests, which are necessary, which can be reduced…
Demands and expectations · Environmental and contextual factors
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Relationship Map for Behaviour Support
A visual map of the people in a person's life, how close they are and what each relationship offers, to guide efforts to strengthen…
Quality of life · Relationship mapping
For Speech pathologists
Requesting Skills Practice Plan
A plan for building requesting skills through motivating, playful opportunities, with partner strategies, target requests for each activity and a simple practice record.
AAC and aided language · Communication partner strategies
For Disability support workers
Respectful Language Guide
A practical guide for support workers on respectful everyday language, covering talking with the person, talking about the person, avoiding infantilising language and asking…
Respectful language · Values in support work
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Risk Enablement Conversation Guide
A guide for supporting participants to take reasonable risks that matter to them, exploring benefits, possible harms, ways to reduce harm and the participant's…
Choice and control · Dignity of risk
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Routines and Engagement Audit
A landscape audit for mapping a person's day hour by hour, noting activity, engagement, choice and support, to find times for more meaningful activity.
Active support and engagement · Proactive support strategies
For Social workers
Safeguarding Conversation Guide for Practitioners
A practitioner guide for responding well when someone raises a concern or makes a disclosure, with what to do and avoid, next steps and…
Safeguarding · Trauma-informed practice
For Community services and case workers
Scam Awareness Handout
A plain-language handout on common scams, warning signs, how to protect yourself and what to do if you have been scammed, including reporting and…
Financial hardship · Online safety
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
SDA and SIL Provider Working Arrangement
A template for the documented arrangement between an SDA provider, a participant and their SIL provider, setting out who does what for the matters…
Service coordination · Specialist disability accommodation (SDA)
For Social workers
Self-Advocacy Planner
A planner that helps people prepare to speak up about a decision or service issue: what happened, what they want, key points, who can…
Advocacy and self-advocacy
For Occupational therapists
Sensory Activity Schedule
A planner for building regular calming, alerting and organising sensory activities into the day, based on the person's preferences, with a simple record of…
Daily routines · Sensory preferences
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Sensory Environment Audit
An audit of a space's sound, light, smell, temperature, crowding and textures from the person's perspective, with changes to try and a review plan.
Environmental and contextual factors · Sensory environments
For Occupational therapists
Sensory Preferences Profile (Informal)
An informal profile for exploring sensory likes, dislikes and helpful strategies across eight senses and everyday environments.
Participation goals · Sensory preferences
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Service Agreement Practice Checklist
A practice checklist for providers preparing clear, participant-friendly service agreements, from supports and costs to changes, complaints and confirming understanding.
Service agreements · Service coordination
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Service Agreements Explained (Easy Read)
An Easy Read explainer about service agreements: what they are, what they usually say, questions to ask before signing and what to do if…
Choice and control · Service agreements
For Allied health and multidisciplinary teams
Service Information Easy Read Template
An Easy Read template for explaining an allied health service: who we are, what we do, what happens at appointments, costs, your rights and…
Accessible information · Appointment information
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Setting Events and Environment Reflection
A team reflection tool for exploring slow triggers, such as sleep, pain or routine changes, and environmental factors that may make behaviours of concern…
Behaviour as communication · Environmental and contextual factors
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