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Susan Clifford (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 05:56 pm: | |
Hi. I have a son who just turned 4 in December. He has absolutely no interest in potty training.
I also have a family who is no help as they think that he should be trained by now, it does not help that he has a cousin (normal developmental age) who is 1 month older than him and does not wear pull ups or diapers anymore. He goes to special needs preschool 4 1/2 days a week and I thought that might help as well but so far no luck. I have tried pull ups and now we are on underwear under the pull up and still nothing. ANY and ALL comments and suggestions will be welcome and appreciated. }} |
loretta martin
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Username: Shell2678
Post Number: 2
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 07:20 pm: | |
try putting cheerios in the potty and have his shoot them... |
Sally Busby (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Wednesday, July 08, 2009 - 12:36 pm: | |
My son has autism and will be turning five in August. It was a three year process to get him potty trained. We still have to take him--he doesn't go himself, but he does wear underwear during the day and stays clean. (We're still working on the nights.) My suggestion is just do what you can, but I think it's more about training the parent when you have a special needs kid. We took him every 15 minutes for about a year. It won't work sometimes at his school because they couldn't do that, so he'd have set backs. He now has gotten to the point that he goes every 45 minutes. We are so used to this routine that we don't even have to look at a clock. There have been times that he would FIGHT us about the potty, but we would just try to stay positive and remember that he CAN do it and it's important that he learns to do it. Special needs kids have more difficulty with pottying--especially when reward systems didn't work for our son and he was so sensory seeking that he didn't mind being wet. We had to keep on reminding ourselves that WE were being trained in the beginning--not him. Good luck! You can do it! |
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