Autism Potty Training- When to Start and Steps to Take
Dr. Mary Barbera discusses potty training children with autism in this classic rebroadcast.
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Whether your child is 2 or 20, with autism or without, potty training is a critical life skill. As a part of my classic rebroadcast series, I've brought back episode 34 originally recorded in 2019. I share signs of readiness, stress reducing strategies for toilet training, steps to take or solutions for common issues and mistakes.
If you're considering beginning potty training you may want to look for simple signs of readiness such as…the child is aware and dislikes being in a wet or dirty diaper, the child is interested in the bathroom and handwashing, the child is interested in dressing and undressing themselves. In some cases, a child may even hide during BM in their diaper. These are not all guaranteed signs the child is ready to potty train, but they can be an indication to start.
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You'll Learn:
-Why is potty training an important life skill?
-Common issues, mistakes, and troubles in potty training.
-Simple tips, advice, and steps to take for potty training.
-What age should you potty train?
-How long should potty training take?
-Can medical issues affect potty training?
-How to pair the bathroom and potty with your child.
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I'm Dr. Mary Barbera and I fell into the autism world more than two decades ago when my first-born son, Lucas, was diagnosed with autism. Since then I became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Host of the Turn Autism Around podcast (with more than 1 million downloads), and best-selling author of two books (including my newest book Turn Autism Around: An Action Guide for Parents of Young Children with Early Signs of Autism).
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from the bottom of my heart. THANK YOU
We are going through high stress with our 5y old Autistic daughter. She's awaiting a transfer to another school where they have other autistic/special needs children.She constantly comes home from school having wet her pants. She is always stripping off her bottoms clothes and running around at school which they are not happy about. We had been using nappies up until recently, when the school began demanding she get potty trained, but she will strip off whether they are wet or dry. We've been using liner knickers instead of dypers/nappies but they leak. She has spare school clothes in her bag. We try at home to sit her on a potty or toilet, but she never goes, in fact she will wait until she has a nappies or knickers on to go.
What a beautiful soul you are Mary Barbera
I'm so late thanks for sharing 😃
My grandaugter is high functioning 5yo. It has been a struggle with potty training. As time goes by we figured out some reasons why. one reason is she hates the sound of the toilet seat being closed. We also found that if she has a cold or anxiety she stims more and she has more accidents. The biggest problems has been her holding it. I read some autistic kids have a sensory issues with urinating or having a bowel movement. they have an aversion to the feeling. That seems to be her issue. I also read some kids dont like the feel of the toilet seat. To cold or hard. Also flushing.
Hi what part of Pennsylvania do you usually work with kids ?
We have a 7yo who will urinate in the potty. He wants to be a big boy. So he does wear underwear but he does not use a potty for bowel movements. Any suggestions?
My son was diagnosed with Autism @ age 4. Is it normal for children with Autism to have outbursts when commercials come on tv? My son fights whoever has the remote.
Hi, how could I contact you personally? Thank you
😍😍❤️❤️💙💙
my son hides IN the bathroom to poop and may do it in underwear. he has just started to realize that it’s poop and pee and starting to touch it with hands and trying to wipe it off after. Improvement because a couple months ago he didn’t even react to being smelly or wet.
Instead of getting to the point u always talk a whole load of irrelevant nonsense forst
Dont waste your time. Nothing important in this video