This is a hard one. But Personally, I would not punish for wetting. Help him clean himself and ignore it completly. It's going to take a while. Keep using the positive reinforcements. Anytime you pass him and he is dry praise him heavily. Give all your attention to him when he is dry and the complete opposite when he is not. When he knows you are ignoring the behavior it is bound to increase for a while as he is trying to get your attention back. Keep strong and it will work.
You could even give him a token when he is dry for an hour. When he has, say 5, have a few rewards he could choose from. If this works you could increase to being dry for 2 hours to get a token ect.
Time out may be ineffective for him. Maybe just ignoring it and having him clean himself up, giving him no eye contac or conversation what so ever. NO attention. He is enjoying the reaction he gets it appears. The BCBA told me it can take a month to change a behavior but you have to be consistant.OMG, my kid is crazy :)
he pees in his pants on PURPOSE, i give him time out and he laughs!!
HELP, any suggestions?
ignoring didn't seem to help. i really want the t/o to work, how many times/how long do you think it will take for t/o to become negative?
thanks,
kristin
thanks, i worked with a behavioralist last year that had me ignore it, it made alot of sense that he was doing it because he was getting a payoff......anyway, jason regressed last year and i thought maybe trying the t/o again would work, he seems to stay in my world while in time out.....i loved the beh. but last year was not good, he was "on" and "off" now he is more "off", not compliant really bad, i am trying to get him out of district, i think the district is going to grant this w/o a fight.
re: cleaning himself, he has cp and needs assitance with most everything..i think this is his way of acting out, it's a control thing, i am only using the t/o for wetting.
i actually ignored it all day yesterday...he did it 9 times.....sigh, i am using pos. rein. when he does use the potty and t/o when he goes in his pants, it's been about 8 times today.
btw, jason is 7yo, cong OK, fully verbal but not conversational, does very well in a walker, has alot going for him.