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 Disability support workers
Telling Someone I Feel Unwell (Easy Read)
An Easy Read resource that helps people tell someone they feel sick or in pain, show where it hurts and how bad it is,…
Functional communication · Health communication
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Time-of-Day Pattern Chart
A landscape chart for recording when a behaviour of concern happens across the day and week, to help teams spot patterns linked to routines,…
Observation and data collection · Proactive support strategies
For Occupational therapists
Toileting Routine Visual Support
A visual sequence for a toileting routine, from going to the toilet to washing hands, with privacy and dignity reminders and space to personalise…
Personal care and dignity · Task sequencing
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Transition Warning Strategies
A practical guide to helping people manage transitions between activities, with warning strategies, transition objects and routines, and a plan for the person's hardest…
Predictability · Proactive support strategies
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Transport Planning for Participants
A planning tool for participants and support coordinators covering regular trips, transport options, skills and supports, costs and funding questions, and safety.
Community participation · Participant goals and planning
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Trauma-Aware Support Reflection
A team reflection on supporting a person who may have experienced trauma, covering safety, trust, choice, triggers, responses that help and avoiding re-traumatising practices.
Proactive support strategies · Trauma-aware support
For Speech pathologists
Turn-Taking Games Guide
A guide to simple turn-taking games for young children and people building interaction skills, with visual 'my turn, your turn' cards and partner tips.
Early language · Social communication
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Understanding My Plan (Easy Read)
An Easy Read explainer that helps participants understand what is in their plan, how they can use it and who can help, with space…
Accessible information · Participant goals and planning
For Speech pathologists
Using Gestures to Support Communication
A guide for families and teams on using natural gestures and key word signing alongside speech, with everyday gestures to try, tips for modelling…
AAC and aided language · Communication partner strategies
For Occupational therapists
Using Visual Timers
An OT-informed guide for using visual timers to support waiting, transitions, task completion and time awareness, with set-up tips and a trial plan.
Time and waiting supports · Transitions
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Values-Based Practice Reflection for Support Staff
A reflection for support staff on the values behind positive behaviour support, such as dignity, choice, inclusion and rights, and how they show up…
Reflective practice · Rights
For Speech pathologists
Visual Step-by-Step Instructions Template
A template and guide for creating accessible, visual step-by-step instructions for everyday tasks, with one action per step and space for photos or symbols.
Accessible information · Task sequencing
For Disability support workers
Visual Story Template
A template for writing short visual stories that explain a situation and what to expect, with picture boxes, sentence lines and writing guidelines for…
Transitions · Visual communication aids
For Disability support workers
Volunteering (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide to volunteering: what it is, why people volunteer, kinds of volunteering, how to start and support you can get, with…
Accessible information · Community participation
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Waiting and Turn-Taking Teaching Plan
A teaching plan for building waiting and turn-taking skills, starting with very short waits, using visual supports, gradually increasing time and reinforcing success.
Proactive support strategies · Skill building
For Disability support workers
Waiting Supports Card
Printable visual cards that make waiting easier, showing what we are waiting for, how long, and things to do while waiting, with a quick…
Proactive support strategies · Visual communication aids
For Disability support workers
Weekly Activity Planner
A visual weekly planner for mapping activities across mornings, afternoons and evenings, with picture spaces, a key for regular activities and a review box.
Daily routines · Leisure and recreation
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
Weekly Frequency Graph Template
A landscape graph grid for plotting daily counts over a week, with a baseline line, notes for events and space to compare behaviours of…
Data review · Observation and data collection
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
What Motivates Me Menu
A personal menu of activities, people, places and experiences the person enjoys and finds motivating, to plan meaningful days and celebrate success, never to…
Preference exploration · Quality of life
For Disability support workers
What My Support Worker Does (Easy Read)
An Easy Read guide explaining what support workers do, what they do not do, how they should treat you and what to do if…
Accessible information · Rights
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Who Helps Me Now
A participant-friendly support map showing the people and services who help now, what they help with and how often, to prepare for planning and…
Meeting preparation · Support mapping
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Worker Induction Checklist for My Home
A participant-led induction checklist for new support workers, covering getting to know me, my routines, my home, my preferences, safety information and how I…
Choice and control · Person-centred planning
For NDIS providers and support coordinators
Worker Screening, Training and Competency Register
A register of risk assessed roles, NDIS Worker Screening Check details and expiry dates, plus the training, competency and supervision records SIL auditors ask…
Audit readiness · Supported independent living (SIL)
For Disability support workers
Writing Respectful Progress Notes
A practical guide for support workers on writing progress notes that are factual, respectful and person-centred, with before and after examples and a quick…
Documentation and record keeping · Respectful language
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