🧩 Autism & Special Needs Support
Tools and apps designed to support students with autism, sensory needs, and other learning differences.
About autism & special needs support tools
Autism and special-needs support covers the tools Australian teachers and allied-health staff use to plan adjustments, reduce sensory load, and build communication and self-regulation routines. The apps and printables in this category are chosen for classroom fit first — quick to set up, classroom-safe, and respectful of student identity.
You'll find visual schedules and first-then boards, choice boards, AAC-friendly communication supports, social stories builders, and emotion-regulation check-ins (including Zones of Regulation–style printables). Sensory-calm tools, break timers, and movement prompts sit alongside executive-function scaffolds like visual task strips and chunked-assignment builders.
Most tools export print-ready PDFs so you can laminate once and reuse all term. Where a tool has been co-designed with Australian clinicians (speech pathologists, occupational therapists, educational psychologists), we note it on the card. Where a paid tool is NDIS-funded-supports compatible, we call that out too. Use the year-level filters to narrow down to Foundation, primary, or secondary needs.