Brushing My Teeth | Step-by-Step Visual Story | SEND / SEN

A clear and accessible step-by-step visual guide to brushing teeth, designed to help children and young people understand, follow and become more independent with their daily oral hygiene routine.

This resource breaks brushing teeth into simple, manageable steps, using visual support alongside clear and concise language. The predictable sequence helps learners understand what happens, what comes next and when the routine is finished.

🪥 What Does This Resource Support?

This visual story can help learners to:

• Understand the sequence of brushing their teeth
• Follow a personal-care routine step by step
• Develop greater independence and self-care skills
• Understand what happens first, next and last
• Reduce reliance on repeated verbal instructions
• Develop familiarity and confidence with tooth brushing
• Build important daily living and personal hygiene skills

Perfect for SEND and Autism Support

The resource has been designed with SEND/SEN and autistic (ASD) learners in mind, particularly pupils who benefit from visual information, predictable routines, simple instructions and tasks being broken down into smaller steps.

It may also be useful for pupils with communication needs, developmental delays or other additional needs who require extra support with personal-care routines.

Flexible to Use

The visual sequence can be used:

• At school
• At home
• In SEND classrooms
• In specialist settings
• During life-skills lessons
• As part of an independence programme
• For individual or 1:1 support
• Alongside personal-care and hygiene teaching

Adults can work through the sequence together with the learner before gradually encouraging them to follow the visual prompts more independently.

A Practical Life-Skills Resource

Personal care routines can involve many individual actions that may be difficult for some learners to remember or sequence independently.

By breaking tooth brushing into clear visual steps, this resource provides a consistent reference that can be revisited as often as required.

A simple, practical and SEND-friendly visual resource for supporting tooth brushing, personal hygiene and greater independence.