Getting Dressed Visual Schedule Cards

About this resource

A posted, numbered sequence for a home morning getting dressed routine that comes with its own data. Most routine-sequence sets stop at the pictures; this one adds a completion log, a weekly roll-up and a phrase bank behind it, so a step that stops needing a prompt turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Routine

• Getting Dressed (5 steps) — wake up, put on a shirt, put on pants, put on socks, put on shoes

Every picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set: an alarm clock for waking up, a t-shirt, pants, socks, and shoes. All five were checked directly at card size in both art sets before this file was built. The Shirt and Pants and Socks and Shoes pictures each render distinctly from each other in both art sets at card size — this was the critical check for a getting dressed routine.

The Strip

A quick-reference view of the whole routine in numbered order on one page, in color and in ink-saver, so the fixed order is visible at a glance without cutting anything apart. The number prints on every cut-apart card too, so a dropped or reshuffled set can always be put back in order. The routine begins with waking up and ends with shoes on, so the sequence closes on a complete state.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The card and strip pages print on cardstock or plain paper and cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document.

It is a posted, numbered picture sequence for one everyday home morning routine, and a place to record whether each step needed help. It is not a safety procedure, a behavior plan, or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; how it is used with a student, and for how long, is what your team's plan says. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. The log counts one thing per step: whether help was needed, not what kind or in what order to remove it.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals who teach everyday routine sequences to early, pre-reading or emerging-language students, families who practice the same routine at home, case managers who need that teaching to show up as data, and anyone running the same routine with a student in another setting.

More In The Collection

This is part of the Visual Supports Collection, alongside Bedtime Routine Visual Schedule Cards, Home Morning Routine Visual Schedule Cards, School Bus Routine Visual Schedule Cards, and other routine-sequence sets; more picture-card sets — routine strips, choice boards, calm-down cards — are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.