Below is a general skill sequence for helping learners put on a button up shirt.

As learners become proficient in mastering the simple task of donning a common T-shirt, it's time to progress to more advanced dressing routines. A key step in this journey involves introducing them to the task of putting on a button-up shirt. This particular skill area focuses on the basic sequence of wearing a button-up shirt, laying the groundwork before delving into the intricacies of buttoning itself. Once the learners are comfortable with the process of putting the shirt on and understand the sequence involved, clinicians and educators can then shift their focus to teaching the finer details of buttoning the shirt, further enhancing their dressing skills.

Treatment Plan Goal Ideas

This is a list of treatment plan goals. These are different from the goals you will find in the skill sequence below. Your treatment plan goals encompass any number of goals from the skill sequence. Sometime they will include multiple goals from the sequence (”Learner will label 5 toys”) and sometimes the treatment plan goal will be simply consist of a really important goal from the skill sequence (”Will label caregiver”). An analogy I like to use goes as follows: Each skill sequence goal (commonly known as a “target”) represent each stair in a flight of stairs. The treatment plan goal is the flight itself.

Treatment plan goal ideas for this particular skill area are as follows:

• Learner will put on a coat, jacket, or a button up shirt with minimal prompting across three shirts, coats, or jackets.
• Learner will independently put on a coat, jacket, or a button up shirt across three shirts, coats, or jackets.

Component Skills

Your learner may need to be fluent in these component skills first before introducing this goal/skill area. Component skills for this skill sequence may include skill areas that are fundamental to other areas. Fluency in the skill areas listed below may increase the likelihood that your learner will succeed in this skill sequence and those afterward.

Intro to Reinforcer/Preference Expansion

Single Actions with Common Toys

Performs Preferred Action with Preferred Item (LR)

Performs Action During Familiar Routines (LR)

Intro to Dressing

Putting On T-Shirts

Skill Possibilities

Below is a possible skill sequence for working on increasing your learner’s ability to put on a button up shirt. Note that every learner is different and that you likely will need to tweak and vary some programming to their needs. Click the triangle icon to view the full description for each skill in the sequence/area.

Concurrent Skills

Working on these skills at the same time could help with goal mastery. Maybe your learner has mastered these skills already. Perhaps they are already listed as component skills above. That’s okay! Targeting other learning channels might help your learner.

Intro to Hangers

Composite Skills

These are the possible next steps for learners who have mastered, or are mastering, the skills listed above. Note that new skill areas may require fluency in other component skills not listed above. Also, you can introduce composite skill sequences prematurely to keep your learner progressing, as generativity may occur earlier than expected.

Intro to Zippers, Buttons, & Snaps

Putting On Belts (Coming Soon!)

Tucking in Shirts (Coming Soon!)

Follow the link below to better understand component-composite analysis.

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