Topic
Teaching and practising new skills in everyday settings.
13 resources
For Disability support workers
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 Positive behaviour support practitioners
A plan for teaching a coping skill as a replacement for behaviours of concern, covering the skill, why it fits, teaching steps, practice when…
Proactive support strategies · Skill building
For Speech pathologists
A structured practice set for building understanding of spoken instructions, from one-step to three-step and concept-based instructions, with partner strategies and a progress record.
Communication partner strategies · Following instructions
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
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 Disability support workers
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 Speech pathologists
Visual practice for understanding and answering who, what, where, when and why questions, with picture cues, example questions and partner tips.
Skill building · Understanding questions
For Speech pathologists
A printable bookmark with prompts to use before, during and after reading, helping students predict, check understanding, visualise, question and summarise.
Reading comprehension · Skill building
For Speech pathologists
Printable cards for building sentences from who, doing, what and where parts, with example sentences and partner tips for expanding sentences step by step.
Sentence building · Skill building
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
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 Speech pathologists
A home practice sheet for speech sound targets set by a speech pathologist, with spaces for target words, practice levels, a ten-a-day tracker and…
Skill building · Speech sounds
For Speech pathologists
A visual story planner using picture prompts for who, where, when, the problem, feelings, actions and ending, to help children plan and retell stories.
Narrative language · Skill building
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
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 Speech pathologists
A word map for building deeper understanding of new words through category, function, description, parts, location, sounds and use in a sentence.
Skill building · Vocabulary
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