Teaching kids essential life skills can be a rewarding journey, filled with moments of progress and achievement. Patience, encouragement, and consistency will be your allies as you guide your child toward independence in dressing and self-care.

In the fourth video of a five-part-series, we demonstrate strategies for teaching children to use zips and buttons on clothes and learning to tie shoelaces. This includes general teaching techniques to adapt the task, i.e. using modifications or visual aids, as well suggested teaching sequences. Some games and fun activities are proposed to develop related motor skills.

If you have further questions or need to troubleshoot individual challenges your child experiences, please contact the occupational therapist in your local children's disability network team.