Do You Use Picture Charts?

Rebus (picture) charts work great for these sorts of things. If getting them done and maybe fighting about them is an issue, have your children help you to make them. Take actual photos of the things you want them to do..like of their toothbrush, or them even brushing their teeth, hair, washing the face (depending on how many specific steps you plan to do)...a picture of their clothes, shoes, outerwear, etc..again, depending on how detailed you need it (often with a delayed or special needs child, they may need it to show underwear, then socks, then pants, then shirt, then shoes, etc..very detailed).

But figure out that part, and take actual pictures. Get your posterboards and make them the size you need. Then sit with your kids and make the charts. Make them think about what comes next...let them have some input and discuss WHY that comes next. Maybe they want to brush their teeth last? its a flexible thing...but putting on clean undies really needs to happen before your pants go on...stuff like that. Let them have some control where it CAN happen...put the stuff in order and make them help with those choices, rather than dictating to them the order.

If you have a morning and a bedtime routine in the bathroom, and one set for each child, thats alot of charts. Maybe you can laminate them with clear contact paper, then put them on a big binder ring, labeled with each other names and separate them...maybe you have 2 towel hooks, so they each have access, or can add a simple plastic hook so they can get to their rebus chart? Figure out what works for your home and situation. =)

I use rebus charts for many things in my home childcare...they are fantastic for simple recipes with children too! And remember, anything like this you do with a child is sequencing...and that is MATH....early math skills involve so many things we do and can reinforce with kids..and following anything resembling a "recipe" where things go in an order is a sequencing pre-math skill! Go Mom! Yeah for learning!

My friend, who has a son with Asperger's, had great success with picture charts with him.

Its called visual cuing.
Sure, it helps kids...
even adults.
Even drivers.
We all use 'signs' and visual charts for daily life and organization.

Schools use it.
Kids see it.
They absorb it.
They learn from it.
Until a child can read themselves, you explain it to them.
A child this age, ALSO needs verbal cuing... and explaining to him, what is coming next.

to me, hanging it by the front door, is too late.
By then, they are already at the door, ready.
They need to see it BEFORE they reach the front door, WHILE they are getting ready.
On a wall by their room?
By their bathroom?
Someplace, that is where they actually GET ready.
BEFORE getting to the front door.
Or what about in the kitchen?

i was feeling disorganized to day and stopped to make a list and DD wanted one too, so i wrote down the things i usually nag her about after school and she was so proud to go down the list and check then off. Worked great for today. Make it fun and hopefully it will last long enough to get in their head or at least save your voice from repeating the same thing over and over.

I see kids with them all the time in school and where my son does his speech. They are usually little square pictures with velcro on the back and they are put on a binder or folder and that way you can change the picture or when they are done a step you can take it off and just focus on what is next. I see them all the time so they must work.

I use somethingsimilar to what you are talking about with my son who is hard of hearing. I say go for it.. I do agree with s.h.wholeheartedly bout at the door is too late. I do pecs pictures of items he wants ex banana. so in your case you can do ex a pic of a kid putting his shoes on, his jacket on and going out the door. I would also do a brush teeth one and bath one and bed one. I dont know how old your kid is or how diverse his language skills are but if he is small lets say 2 and limited words the pecs he can tell you
what he wants with out talking. especially if there is a communication problem like mine.

now I show him a banana and say and sign banana i did this for a week or so now I am getting nananana out of him. it will also help his vocabulary. I say the whole sentence "do you want a banana? " when he shows me the sign I did mine in a spiral notebook. he can ask for what he cant say. but since I know he can say banana now i make him say it before getting it. he messed up letting me know he knows the word.

I would also use play pictures ex ball, car, doll, horse, etc but since your not using pecs and using a chart instead make sure you get all steps in there ex brushing teeth get a pic of a toothbrush and toothpaste. then a pic of toothpaste on a toothbrush and then one of him brushing his teeth. put them on the same page in chronical logical order. use a pic of a car for leaving and do a pic of a kid walkng out the door and a pic of a car.turn to the page of what activity you want him to do and he will catch on fast. my hard of hearing kid is catching on a lot quicker with pecs which is a lower version of what you are doing.

it will work and you will be amazed the diffrence it will make. made a huge diffrence with mine. good luck and go get a spiral I get my pics out of the paper or magazines. circulars are great for me with my thing.