toilet training

In this episode, we're exploring the essential steps of potty training for autistic children, all while emphasizing compassion. Potty training can be a challenging journey, especially for children who are autistic. I've broken down the process into five steps, each designed to create a supportive and comfortable environment for your child or student.  I’ll see you inside the show!

Topics Discussed:

• Challenges autistic children face with potty training

• 3 steps to potty training with compassion

• Preparing autistic children with visuals and social stories

• What you get in the Potty Train With Compassion mini-course

Links Mentioned In This Episode:

• Potty Train With Compassion Mini-Course

Other Links You May Be Interested In:

• Autism Little Learners on Instagram

• Autism Little Learners on Facebook

You can also join my free Visual Supports Facebook Group to “hang out” with like- minded educators and parents who want to take action and implement visuals at home or at school.

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In today’s Q&A podcast episode, I answered questions from listeners about toilet training young autistic children.  

In This Episode You Will Learn: 

• What to do if your child or student uses the bathroom at home, but not at school or in public

• Readiness signs for potty training

• Where to start first with toilet training

• Helping children communicate the need to use the bathroom

• How interoception affects toilet training

Links Related To This Week’s Episode:

• Toilet Training Toolkit Guide

• Toileting Sequence Visual Support

• Interoception Video

• Toilet Training Amazon Recommendations

You may also be interested in these supports:

• Visual Support Starter Set 

• Visual Supports Facebook Group

• Autism Little Learners on Instagram

• Autism Little Learners on Facebook

Submit a question for the Q&A episodes.  Ask me anything and tune in to see if your question is featured on the show!

We are on the last episode in this 3 part series on potty training autistic children with compassion.  Today, I’ll be sharing 12 additional tips and tricks that have worked for me and the parents I have supported over the last 2 decades.  Be sure to listen in because one of these tips might just be the one you needed to get over the potty training hump.  

In This Episode You Will Learn: 

• 12 tips and tricks for potty training autistic children

Links Related To This Week’s Episode:

• Toilet Training Toolkit Guide

• Potty Time App

• Toilet Training Amazon Recommendations

You may also be interested in these supports:

• Visual Support Starter Set 

• Visual Supports Facebook Group

• Autism Little Learners on Instagram

• Autism Little Learners on Facebook

Submit a question for the Q&A episodes.  Ask me anything and tune in to see if your question is featured on the show!

What skills do I even start with as I’m potty training my autistic child or student?  Which strategies will help me best support the child as I begin to teach these skills?  Today we will be talking about which skills you can start with and the types of visual and sensory supports can help you potty train with compassion.  You will also learn where to get the brand new free Toilet Training Guide from Autism Little Learners.  Be sure to listen to episode 18, which was part one of this 3 part series on toilet training.  In that episode we talked about how interoception differences and language delays can make potty training more difficult for young autistic children.

In This Episode You Will Learn: 

• Where to start with potty training your autistic child or student

• What types of visual supports are helpful

• Which sensory aspects you need to think about

Links Related To This Week’s Episode:

• Toilet Training Toolkit Guide

• Toilet Training Blog

• Mini-Training Replay On Visual Supports For Potty Training

• Video Modeling Blog

• Mini-Training Replay On Video Modeling

• Noise Reducing Headphones

• My Favorite Weighted Lap Pad

You may also be interested in these supports:

• Visual Support Starter Set 

• Visual Supports Facebook Group

• Autism Little Learners on Instagram

• Autism Little Learners on Facebook

Submit a question for the Q&A episodes.  Ask me anything and tune in to see if your question is featured on the show!

One of the biggest skills parents of my students want to work on is potty training, and rightly so.  This skill is huge when it comes to independence! But, many times, ditching those diapers and pull-ups takes a lot more time than with neurotypical children.  Why is that? That’s what we are chatting about it inside this episode of the Autism Little Learners Podcast!

In This Episode You Will Learn: 

• Why potty training is delayed for many autistic children

• What the term “interoception” means

• How language delays affect potty training

• Tips to help set the stage for toilet training

Links Related To This Week’s Episode:: 

• Toilet Training Blog Posts

• Potty Journey Book

• Ready Set Potty Book

• Interoception - How I Feel Book

• The Pocket OT Facebook Page

• Autism Potty Training Amazon Recommendations

• Free Visual Sequence For Toileting

• El Potty Nurse Travel Potty Seat

Register for the new mini-course, "Autism:  Potty Train With Compassion" by clicking here.

You may also be interested in these supports:

• Visual Support Starter Set 

• Visual Supports Facebook Group

• Autism Little Learners on Instagram

• Autism Little Learners on Facebook

Submit a question for the Q&A episodes on the first Tuesday of each month.  Ask me anything and tune in to see if your question is featured on the show.

Today’s episode is a solo episode with Dr. Erin O’Connor, Ed.D. Erin goes over the various options when thinking about helping young children learn to use the toilet. She also shares information from her personal and research experiences around toilet learning. Further, Erin talks a bit about her transition to being Chief of Education at Cooper.

To learn more about Cooper please visit @your_cooper on instagram and sign up for more information at https://www.yourcooper.com/

Danielle Daure holds a Master's Degree in Education and has over 20 years' combined experience in education and behavior analysis. She is a Board Certified and Licensed Behavior Analyst (BCBA, LBA). For years, Danielle worked with children as old as five with extreme anxiety around toilets, to the point where they had severe constipation through tears and tantrums. She saw frustrated parents trying to reward and/or punish their children into potty-training; children who couldn't start preschool because they weren't out of diapers; and even older toddlers with impacted bowels who had to be hospitalized because of days of withholding bowel movements. 

Toilet training isn't inherently difficult to learn; it is only that adults haven't been taught how to property introduce children to the toilet in a way that's natural and developmentally-appropriate. She has learned personally and professionally that when parents take simple daily steps, just 2-3 minutes per day from about four months on, toilet training will develop as easily and naturally as learning how to walk and talk and ride in a carseat. 

Her method is called Developmental Toilet Training, and doesn't subscribe to the diaper-free approach of the well-known Elimination Communication method because she says it's not practical, nor is it especially beneficial, to rush the process during infancy and avoid diapers entirely. Danielle, who offers a video series for parents, also encourages her clients to avoid using training-potties. 

Today, she walks us through her method for creating the easiest transition from diapers to toilet, and, surprisingly, the process isn't about getting to the goal of potty-training as soon as possible; it's about creating a safe, happy, stress-free and rewarding process for parents and children along the way.

Developmental Toilet Training Website

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Toilet training isn't easy & it differs from kid to kid!
I dabbled with toilet training my then 2 year old but I could see she just wasn't ready.

She did it once in the toilet but was too scared to do it again so I decided to wait until she was 3 & it was a much better experience.
In this episode I share my tips & tricks to toilet training Cassia! Day time & night time training was relatively simple but training to do number 2's in the toilet at the time of recording this episode was definitely a task to say the least!

I hope these tips & tricks help you in your toilet training journey.

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Holly and Andrew have another listener dilemma on their hands, this time from a Mum who's son is getting bullied for going to the toilet sitting down. But do boys have to wee standing up? 

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