Use toilet
Going to the toilet is a chain of moves adults rarely register: lifting the lid, checking the seat, sitting down, flushing, washing hands — and dealing with the door. The visual support below pulls the chain apart so the child can follow it alone.
♂Peeing on the toilet
A person is sitting on the toilet and peeing.
♂Wiping on the toilet
A person is sitting on the toilet and wiping with toilet paper.
♂Getting off the toilet
A person is sitting on the toilet with an upward arrow, indicating getting up or being done.
♂Use toilet
A boy sitting on a toilet.
♀Sit on the toilet
A girl sitting on the toilet holding toilet paper.
♀Sit on the toilet
A woman sitting on the toilet in profile.
♀Flush the toilet
A girl flushing the toilet.
About this visual support
For many children, peeing or pooping isn't the hard part on the toilet — it's everything around it. The seat feels cold on bare skin, the flush is loud and unpredictable, the bathroom echoes, and an unfamiliar toilet at a café or a relative's home can have different sounds, smells and locks than the one at home.
A visual support gives the child an internal map that works in any bathroom. The steps stay the same — walk in, pants down, sit, wipe, dress, flush, wash — and when the pictures are the same as at home, the unfamiliar toilet becomes a variation of something known instead of a brand new situation.
One small detail that matters a lot: talk about the lock before the child sits. Some children want to close and lock themselves in, others worry about being trapped. Make it an explicit choice in the sequence. In Routined you can keep a home-toilet sequence and a short away-version that the child can look through ahead of a new place.