Toilet Training Your Child With Autism

The trials of toilet training an older child with autism.

Toilet training your child with autism.

There is no magic age or perfect time to potty train. Animated characters on videos do. When children with autism are ready for toilet training they will begin to demonstrate the three signs of readiness listed below. Here are seven tips to help toilet train your child with autism or another developmental disability.

Wait until the child is ready. There is almost no literature available on training the older child with autism. Kids generally show readiness between the ages of two and four but sometimes a child isn t ready then. That s a long time to a child.

Toilet training is never easy and for many children on the autism spectrum it can be a real challenge. In this article we ll be sharing with you a clear and step by step plan on how to successfully toilet train your autistic child. They do not like the feeling of a wet or soiled diaper or pull up and will show it by taking off the wet or soiled diaper pull up and they vocalize displeasure in being wet of soiled and want to be changed. Children with autism are often impatient.

If that s the case wait. If only there was a way to get your child to sit happily on the throne with a full belly. Toilet training is a daunting yet necessary process. Some of the usual motivations for toilet training such as peer pressure a desire for independence or a need to feel clean and dry may not be present in a child on the autism spectrum.

They don t want to sit down in one spot especially on a toilet for 5 minutes.