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
Shared Home Emergency Plan and Evacuation Drill Record
A shared-home emergency plan built around each resident's needs, plus a drill record so evacuations are practised, timed, reviewed and improved.
Emergency preparedness · Shared living
For Disability support workers
Shift Handover Notes Template
A structured shift handover template for support workers, covering the person's wellbeing, activities, health and medication notes, incidents, follow-ups and what the person wants…
Documentation and record keeping · Shift handover
For Disability support workers
Shopping List and Plan
A visual shopping planner with picture prompts for common food groups, a budget box, a shopping list and a simple step plan for the…
Budgeting and money · Independent living
For Occupational therapists
Shopping Strategies for Fatigue
Practical strategies for grocery shopping with fatigue or limited energy, covering planning, timing, the store, carrying, online options and recovery.
Energy conservation · Pain and pacing
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Short Stay Preparation Pack
A preparation pack for participants going to short-term accommodation or respite, covering about me, routines, communication, health and medication, what to pack and contacts.
Carer wellbeing · Person-centred planning
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
SIL and SDA Agreements Compliance Checklist
A checklist of what SIL service agreements and SDA agreements must cover, including separate agreements, conflicts of interest, 90 days' notice, repairs, visitors and…
Service agreements · Specialist disability accommodation (SDA)
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
SIL House Induction Checklist for Workers
A house-specific induction checklist for support workers starting in a supported independent living home, covering the people who live there, safety, behaviour support, reporting…
Safeguarding · Supported independent living (SIL)
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
SIL Practice Standards Self-Assessment
A self-assessment against the four new supported independent living Practice Standards that apply from 1 July 2026, with space to note your evidence and…
Audit readiness · Supported decision-making
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Skill-Building Plan
A planning template for teaching a meaningful new skill, including why it matters to the person, how it will be taught, practice opportunities and…
Quality of life · Skill building
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Sleep and Wellbeing Log
A two-week landscape log for teams recording sleep, health, mood, meals, events and changes, to help identify wellbeing factors linked to distress or behaviour.
Health and behaviour · Observation and data collection
For Occupational therapists
Sleep Routine Supports (OT)
An OT-informed guide to sleep routines and environments, covering wind-down activities, sensory considerations, bedroom set-up, daytime activity and a routine planner.
Sensory preferences · Sleep and rest
For Speech pathologists
Speaking Clearly Strategies
A practical handout for people whose speech is harder to understand and their listeners, with speaker strategies, listener tips and a practice log, for…
Communication partner strategies · Speech clarity
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Staff Wellbeing After Incidents
A guide for staff and team leaders on looking after wellbeing after difficult or distressing incidents, covering common reactions, self-care, team support and when…
Debriefing and staff wellbeing · Trauma-informed practice
For Disability support workers
Staying Safe Online (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide to staying safe online: private information, passwords, scams, friends online, and what to do if something online makes you feel…
Accessible information · Online safety
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Strategy Training Plan for Teams
A plan for training teams in behaviour support plan strategies, covering who needs training, how it will be delivered, practice and feedback, checking competence…
Proactive support strategies · Team training
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Strengths and Talents Profile
A profile recording a person's strengths, talents, skills, interests and what others appreciate about them, to shift focus from problems to possibilities in support…
Person-centred planning · Strengths profiles
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Support Roster Planner
A landscape weekly planner for mapping a participant's supports, who provides them and when, with key contacts and space to note gaps and preferences.
Participant goals and planning · Rostering and scheduling
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Support Team Collaboration Planner
A planner that helps a support team agree roles, consistent language and strategies, shift handovers and review routines, so the person experiences predictable support.
Behaviour as communication · Team communication
For Disability support workers
Support Worker Reflection Log
A reflection log for support workers to think about shifts, what went well, what was hard, the person's experience, their own wellbeing and learning…
Clinician wellbeing · Reflective practice
For Disability support workers
Supported Decision-Making Guide for Support Workers
A practical guide for support workers on supporting people to make their own decisions, with the key principles, a six-step process and a simple…
Choice and control · Supported decision-making
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Supported Decision-Making Record (SIL)
A record of how a person living in supported independent living was supported to make a decision: their will and preferences, the support they…
Dignity of risk · Supported decision-making
For Occupational therapists
Task Breakdown Planner
A practical template for breaking an everyday task into clear steps, recording the support needed for each step and tracking change over time.
Executive functioning · Independent living
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Team Debrief After a Difficult Event
A structured, supportive team debrief after a difficult event, covering wellbeing first, what happened, what helped, the person's experience, learning and follow-up, without blame.
Behaviour as communication · Debriefing and staff wellbeing
For Allied health and multidisciplinary teams
Team Wellbeing Check-In
A short team wellbeing check-in for meetings, with a simple rating, what is helping, what is hard and one thing the team can do,…
Clinician wellbeing · Team wellbeing
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