I would love to hear how you other mommy's successfully potty trained your child.
My son is almost 4 years old. We started about 2 weeks ago.How long can I expect a child with Autism to take to be trained?He is the oldest so it's our first experience with the potty.Thanks!!!My son's teacher last year actually started this process. He was about 3 1/2 then and she said just send in underwear and we will do it for you .. So one day i did and from that point on he started to pee on the potty.. I thought to myself how easy.. Then the summer came and he regressed big time.. It was back to diapers and pull ups.. He is now 4 and is doing ok.. He will pee on the potty all day except when he is distracted , he had a accident yesterday at school because he never told the teacher he had to go, and poop that is another story.. for the most part he goes every other day so i try to figure out when he is going to go by watching him and if i catch him in the act i out him on the potty .. he is very scared of the noise when you flush and i think that is the problem for us. It is not easy but i always said that they won't be 20 still in diapers..
Hi everyone. I am new to the boards!
My son is 2 1/2 and he was diagnosed with PDD-NOS this past July. He seems ready to potty train because he says pee-pee when he pees in his pull-ups and he says caca when he poops and he grabs at his toosh (too funny!). He also is undressing himself if he feels wet I am guessing. The other day he had to poop and he decided to get undressed (I went to the kitchen a moment) and he pooped on the floor. It was gross but exciting at the same time b/c although it was not fun to pick up, he was connecting pooping with taking off his undies. LOL
My question is: How can I potty train? Do I just sit him on the toilet for the same times each day or do I just randomly sit him on the potty? Any advice would help. Thanks!
seems like such an impossible mission, my 3 year old is in a phase where he doesn't want me to change his diaper, doesn't want to wear a diaper, and doesn't want to use the potty. meanwhile, my little one, under 2, is asking to use the potty, sits on the potty, wipes, flushes, and is really ready. he's also starting to catch up to his older brother in talking.
there's a book on potty training an autistic individual, it is pretty good and emphasizes a strict routine and visual aids (pictures of the steps) but i can't remember the name of the book right now, i can't remember where i put it... i'll look for it.
it took a month or month more before both my boys were completely comfortable using potty, and still have issues. My younger one thinks it funny to pee in toy buckets. sorry i can't be much help but i can tell you we used sticker charts in the beginning and they worked out pretty well. And we still reinforce positively when the kids use potty appropriately, high fives and alot of great jobs and its been a few months now.
We started shortly after the 3rd birthday for both boys. I basically shoved them into the bathroom to watch daddy and within a month or two they were peeing in the potty consistently, standing up only.
Pooping took longer. Our potty training was going on right around the same time we got the Nemo DVD and the boys were afraid to sit on the potty lest they fall in and get sucked through the pipes into the ocean. My NT son was completely trainined by 3 1/2, my ASD son was completely trained about 2 months before his 4th birthday.
Funny note on training my ASD son. C would poop in his underwear, then go into the bathroom and undress completely. He would take his underwear off carefully so as not to "spill the poop" and then would very carefully dump the poop into the toilet, wipe, flush, carry the underwear to the washer, toss it in, go to his room, get fresh underwear and completely redress - all on his own. Potty training an ASD child is an adventure!!!
Consistency is primarily the key, whatever method you choose to use.
I found a marvelous potty-training combination - interactive social story, pecs schedules (one for #1, one for #2 and washing hands) you can post, reward chart - on ebay (searched under autism) that was customized for boy or girl - and that has helped us cover all the bases for Mr. B.
The pre-school he attends fell in love with it, and uses copies of the schedules, so he has the consistency there while they work with him and it follows him home.
danyell782, could you send that teacher over to Abby's daycare. WOW! Abby's teachers are very helpful but they would never take it on 100%. My husband and I working full-time makes it even harder. She will run around with pee and poo poo in her diaper forever if she could. Sometimes I wonder if she will ever come to me to let me know it bothers her!
We started my 5 yr old when he was 4. He still has accidents. I think they all do it in their own time.
Laurie
How long did it take? Well, that depends on your definition...
We worked on readiness forever. We could never get him to relax enough on the toilet to let nature take its course. We finally had a breakthrough when we put him on the toilet facing the tank. We didn't know it at the time, but he had "gravitational insecurity" and probably felt like he was trying to pee sitting on the edge of a cliff. Sitting holding onto the tank and looking at the wall instead of down at the floor felt safer. (He only sat this way during the learning phase, after training he quickly transitioned to standing to pee and sitting the normal way).
When we started training actively, it took 6 weeks or so. The first week we pretty much had to keep his pants off to increase body awareness. He quickly learned to pee in the toilet, as long as we gave reminders, took him there fairly regularly, etc.
Learning to poop in the toilet took longer, because by the time he recognized the urge, he didn't have time to make it to the bathroom. He understood that he mustn't go in his pants, but didn't understand that he couldn't just poop wherever he happened to be -- we didn't know at the time that he had autism, so we didn't know about using social stories and visuals to make these expectations clear for him.
Here's my collection of potty resources, including articles, visuals and sample social stories:
http://www.autism-pdd.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=16098&am p;KW=potty+resources
Good luck with everything.