Autism potty training

Re: Autism potty training

• pastalady member

  June 2013

  I really liked The Potty Journey. It's for any age person on the spectrum. I didn't think anything would work but this book really did. Basically you put the child on a schedule at first. Say every 2 hours sit on the potty. After a week of note taking and seeing when they go you adjust the schedule. So for example if DD sat on the potty at 12:00, nothing happened but she wet herself at 12:30 I would try 12:15 the next day, then move up to 12:30 the next and so on.

  Some other things that helped was changing all diapers in the bathroom, because that is where toileting happens. And most important, a highly motivating reward! It has to be something they get only for going to the potty. So a cookie only works if that is the only time they will get a cookie. With DD it was a potato chip. At first we had to use the reward just to get her on the potty. She would scream if someone even said potty lol!

  Other problem we ran into was we had a little elmo potty. She trained on that but then we had issues getting her to use the regular toilet. Most of our kids with ASD love routine lol and do not like train. We could have saved a few weeks by starting on a regular toilet with a potty seat.

  Same with wording. Think about what you want your kid to be repeating in front of others. DH would say cute things and I would ask "Do you want her telling a teacher or classmate she has to go make a poop[ydoodle?" So we stuck to I need to use the bathroom please. That way she can tell anyone that lol!

  DD had a severe speech delay. Her expressive is better than receptive. I realized I wasn't really explaining the concept well to her. Breaking it down step by step helped so much. Even explaining what urine was helped. She looked at me and said "Peepee looks like water but yellow". Years of peeing into a diaper she really had no idea what it was, how it came out etc.

  Good luck!

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  Olivia Kate is almost 4!
  Diagnosed with autism this year and doing great!

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• Zulixx member

  June 2013

  I was actually coming over to ask myself. My brother in law is 6 and has autism and he will Pee in the potty but he won't poop. Just looking for tips on how to encourage him. He will do it sometimes. But not all the time. Bribes work for him at school but not at home.

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• Zulixx member

  June 2013

  The initial concern was he couldn't tell when he had to go or feel it so they have him some type of medicine that was supposed to help him feel it. He also takes miralax daily. He has accidents at scho but not as often as he does at home and if he's not getting his way I've seen him poop his pants intentionally.

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