“Take Off Your Shoes and Wipe Your Feet!”
- Provide your child with adult shoes that can be easily removed.
- Allow several opportunities throughout the day for your child to remove shoes (before entering the home, before coming in from the sandbox, before going to bed, etc).
- Model taking your own shoes off.
- Touch or point to the shoe to cue your child to remove them.
- Have your child sit on the floor, or in a chair where there is support. This will make it easier for your child to remove shoes.
- Initially provide your child with hand-over-hand guidance to assist with removing shoes.
- Provide your child with various kinds of shoes (e.g., slippers, sandals, boots, sneakers).
- Loosen your child’s shoes to make it easier for removal.
- Verbally instruct your child to take off his own shoes.
- Multiple trials will help your child to learn to take off his shoes independently.
