Description
The Practical Guide to Toilet Training the Autistic Child transforms the experience of potty training for children with ASD. Written by an experienced occupational therapist, parents and professionals will learn everything for teaching this complex skill.
Are you struggling to toilet train your autistic child? The Practical Guide to Toilet Training the Autistic Child is a comprehensive guide written by an experienced occupational therapist who knows the best techniques for teaching this complex skill. You’ll learn all the professional secrets so that you can toilet train your child with ASD quickly and easily.
The 154 page PDF digital ebook will be available electronically immediately following payment.
Transform the experience of potty training for your child. You’ll see amazing progress and be able to celebrate each accomplishment along the way. Most importantly, you’ll be giving your child a life-changing skill that will make them more independent and successful.
Beginning with Collaborative Diapering and targeted pre-training, all the way to independence in using the public bathroom, this book is an essential manual for success.
How is The Practical Guide to Toilet Training the Autistic Child different from other “special needs” potty training books?
- Autism creates unique toilet training challenges. Understanding the autistic child’s complex experience during toilet training makes things less confusing and stressful.
- There are no charts or diaries to complete. Busy parents and professionals need easier ways to anticipate a child’s need to pee or poop, and spot problems. There are methods other than filling in forms that answer these important questions without making anyone feel guilty for forgetting to write it all down.
- Using the toilet isn’t a behavior; it is a complex sensory-motor ADL skill. When sensory processing and coordination are included as part of the necessary skill sets to teach, kids train more quickly.
- Waiting too long to train allows bad habits to accumulate and become ingrained. Building skills with targeted pre-training and Collaborative Diapering creates positive early habits, improving the success of formal training.
- Difficult issues aren’t ignored; they are handled with honesty and compassion. Smearing and playing with feces, chronic constipation, defiance, and withholding behaviors are problems that have solutions. This book dives right into the tough parts of toilet training!
The adults doing potty training need support too!
Having the ability to re-engage and regain confidence is super important when frustration or dejection set in. Each chapter of The Practical Guide to Toilet Training the Autistic Child includes useful strategies that help adults handle the stresses of training.
Throughout the book, there are fictionalized accounts of 3 autistic children and their families. Their frustrations and their successes in potty training mirror the real-life experiences of families everywhere. These narratives make the teaching tools in the book come alive!
What’s Inside The Practical Guide to Toilet Training the Autistic Child?
Section I: The Basics
- Chapter 1 explains why autism makes toilet training more challenging in many ways.
- Chapter 2 discussed what true toilet training readiness looks like.
- Chapter 3 details how diet, digestion, and medication issues contribute to delays and distress and offer practical strategies to smooth things out.
Section II: The Magic of Targeted Pre-Training
- Chapter 4 describes how to use three basic strategies (Potty Talk, Potty Play, and Potty Models) and the revolutionary Collaborative Diapering technique to create progress toward independence in the bathroom at any level of ability.
- Chapters 5-9 help parents and professionals prepare for formal training to build a child’s motivation, sensory processing skills, safety, and balance, then adapt the bathroom and teach necessary dressing skills.
Section III: Time to Train
- Chapter 10 outlines the pros and cons of the “gradual” and the “Boot camp” methods of toilet training autistic kids.
- Chapter 11 describes how to teach wiping, flushing, and hand washing/drying.
- Chapter 12 helps readers learn how to smooth out common “bumps in the road” such as smearing behaviors and defiance without crushing a child’s spirit.
- Chapter 13 covers the strategies that take an autistic child from the security of the home potty to independence while using the public bathroom.
- A readiness checklist and a resource list are provided.
The Practical Guide to Toilet Training the Autistic Child walks you through every step of potty training your child in a way that is sensitive to their needs and makes the experience as positive as possible. Written by an experienced occupational therapist, this ebook provides all the information and tools you need to successfully toilet train your child with ASD.
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