Chaining is a helpful technique that you can use to teach your child many complex behaviors.

With chaining, you take a multi-step task and break it down into a sequence of smaller tasks. The learner is taught only one step at a time, and is not taught any future steps until the current step has been mastered. The chaining technique could be used to teach a child how to tie a shoe, how to zip a jacket, how to brush teeth, how to get dressed, and much more.