Dressing

Welcome to Dressing Skills

This page will help you and your child with school-based dressing skills. Use the Dressing Tutorial video to learn how to put on a jacket. Use the Visual Schedule to see the steps for putting on a jacket. At the bottom of the page there are other website links for dressing skills.

Dressing Tutorial

Watch this tutorial for lessons on how to put on a jacket

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Dressing Video TTUSD.mov

Teaching Left/Right Shoe Orientation Tutorial

These are strategies to work on learning to put shoes on the correct feet.

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Dot to Dot - Shoe Orientation Tutorial.mp4

Shoe Tying Tutorial

Watch this tutorial for lessons on how to teach your child to tie shoe laces.

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Shoe Tying Tutorial.mp4

Visual Supports to Print Out and Use With Your Child

Picture Schedule

Putting On a Jacket Routine

Click on image, expand by clicking "pop-out" button on top right, and print and post where your child puts on his/her jacket.

Don Jacket Visual Schedule.pdf

Picture Schedule

Step By Step Shoelace Tying - English

Click on image, expand by clicking "pop-out" button on top right, print, and make booklet to follow step by step.

Shoe Tie Visual Schedule

Picture Schedule

Step By Step Shoelace Tying - Spanish

Click on image, expand by clicking "pop-out" button on top right, print, and make booklet to follow step by step.

Shoe Tie Visual Schedule - SPAN

Picture Schedule

You can print out this one page social story and cut out the pictures to make a sequential picture schedule customized to your family's dressing routine that you and your child can follow in the same routine each morning.

Click on top image, expand by clicking "pop-out" button on top right, and print.

I Can Get Dressed -Social Story - Cover Sheet.pdf

Dressing Social Story

Social stories are short stories that you can read to your child prior to or during an activity to help him or her understand what they are trying to accomplish. When repeated frequently, social stories can help a child learn a routine or new behavior.

Dressing Social Story

Click on top image, expand by clicking "pop-out" button on top right, print, make a booklet and read to your child.

I Can Get Dressed- Social Story.docx

getting_dressed_Social_Story.pdf

Other Helpful Web Resources

Click on these websites for more tricks and tools to help with dressing.

Independence with Self-Dressing and Fine Motor Skills - The OT Toolbox“I can do it myself!” It’s a phrase that most parents hear at one time or another as their child begins to develop the skills needed for independence in self-care. Sometimes, however, there are factors that interfere with appropriate development of function. Parents may wonder when their child will begin to pull on their ... Read More about Independence with Self-Dressing and Fine Motor Skills

Teach Kids How to Button the Fun Way - The OT ToolboxToday, I’ve got a creative way to practice a fine motor task that is often times a tricky for little fumbling fingers: teaching kids how to button…and with a recycled egg carton no less! Read more for creative tips and tools to practice buttoning with kids: As an Occupational Therapist working with kiddos, I often times had ... Read More about Teach Kids How to Button the Fun Way

Two-Colored Training Laces

Two-colored laces make discriminating between the two laces easier. Available on Amazon

Lock Laces

Lock laces are a good alternative to shoe laces until your child masters shoe tying. Available on Amazon.

Stretch Laces

To Make Shoes Slip-On

Stretch laces can replace traditional laces so that shoes become slip-ons, until your child masters shoe tying. Available on Amazon.