Anyone have any tips on potty training? My son is 2 and a half, will be three in April and we want to start potty trainning.. but are having a HARD time. Kai has Autism and also has high sensory needs.. to make matters even funner.... Kai also has a pancerus disorder which causes him to have many bowel moments a day that are thick and tar like..
HELP please?????

Welcome to the board!

My Gus has autism and is 4½ he also has sensory issues, and we are having a hard time as well. With Gus it is majorly a control thing - he CAN go at will, and hold it - he just really likes his diapers - and he's even particlular about the brand. He also doesn't care if he's wet so cloth did not work. We are taking a hiatus from TTing becasue I am almost due with our 5th baby. I have a book somewhere, about TTing for autistics - I have been looking for it for weeks and when I find it will post the title and author for you!

Sorry I have no advice. Jay is 3.5 years and has only went pee on the potty a few times at school. I do want to start PT soon.

My son is 4 yrs old and has PDD. i started potty training really early on we where doing well but then he stopped. all i can say is give him sometime. my son's school started potty training him in feb of last yr and by march he was done, now he go's potty with no problem he even has started to wipe his own butt, but we are still have problems at night. every kid is different and kids with ASD even more. what i use to do with my son was bring the potty chair to him. he loved watching tv so we put it in front of it ans slowly moved it into the bathroom. it's hard but stick to your guns

Well, since I had no idea about ASD yet, we did a very odd job with training. Freddy refused any and all methods I tried. (and I tried them ALL)

What worked for us:
Ken sat with Freddy in the bathroom for about 6 hours. They read books. They played with cars. They did anything and everything. Every time Freddy went potty, he got candy and clapping and so forth. He was allowed to get up off the toilet and play in cloth trainer pants for about half an hour. Then he had to get back on.
I can't say it was fun. He did get sick of being on the toilet. But I was at work and had no idea. So when I got home, I stationed his portable potty chair in front of the TV and put on his favorite kids shows. And every time he peed, same thing. Candy, clapping, lots of praise. Then he could get up and run around and play for an hour and then back on again, sitting until he went again. (Lots of juice and water helped)
The next day, I went and bought a binder and printed out some sheets to log when he ate and drank and when he peed and pooped. Every time, he peed or pooped in his potty chair, he got to do stickers as well. He could pick a color sticker (it was always yellow for some reason) and put anywhere on the page.

After about 2 weeks or so, he was very potty trained, but he would NOT poop in the toilet. He was potty trained some time after his 3rd birthday, last February. He wasn't bowel trained until this past October. And to do that, we had to start all over again. Sitting regularly and often. With stickers and candy and so forth. We still do stickers some times, if he wants. But only if he asks. I don't offer them anymore.

Anyways, sorry this is so long. I know it's a very specific method. It may not work for any other child other than Freddy. IDK. But now, he rarely ever has an accident and can tell me that he needs to go. It's a habit. It was SO SO SO difficult to change his previous habit of going in his pants, but now, he would never think that way. It's the routine and that's how he has to do it now.

Anyways, I wish you all the luck. Patience is the most important and love, of course.

Ive heard alot of ppl having problems potty training. I had Destiny my lil girl potty trained in no time it seemed like all I did was made a potty chart and after she got so many stickers for potting in the potty she got a bigger prize. So I thought that was sooo easy and then............. She regressed I didnt no what to do it took almost 4mths to get her back into going to the potty and that was only because she started school and she was told she was a biggie girl and she wasnt allowed to wear diapers anymore that she had to use the big girl potty. Shes done great every since! I wish I knew other ways to help but I dont have any Ideas Best WIshes
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I found our book today! Toilet Training for Individuals with Autism & Related Disorders by Maria Wheeler. It has examples for all kinds of different situations, not just 1 method, which is good since all kids are different and respond differently. I'm going to try to put it into practice in the coming weeks.

Yeah, you'll probably have to try different methods, and be prepared for it to take a loooooong time. We've been working on potty training for about a year and a half and at this point he is dry at night, but only goes on the potty if he wants to. I found that what has helped is backtracking and teaching the skills involved with using the potty, without focusing on the potty yet, Like being able to pull his pants and diaper up and down (ds just got the hang of that), recognizing that he needs to go, being able to either tell you or get to the potty in time, stuff like that. You could even start out with "habit training" which is basically taking him to the potty at regular intervals.

Justin has Autism. He will be 8 at the end of the month. He just got potty trained last year. We tried everything in the book for like three years. we tried putting his favorite toys in the bathroom, different games in there with him, we would sit in there with him..He went like three times in the actual bathroom in 2 1/2 years. He just refused to give up his pull ups...but it was costing us so much money...i had to make a choice of making every effort possible to get him trained....

we got him the potty chair that made music when he went potty btw..

when our our house flooded last year...we were staying everywhere and i was so afraid he would potty in someone's house..so, we started a timer thing..where we made him go to to the bathroom everything 30 mins no matter what....all day long would wake him up to go...just kept with it..i don't know what it was finally after a month of this something clicked he decided to wear his real underwear at night and that night he didn't potty on himself..i was so happy i couldn't believe it after three years of the same thing over and over..i think it really varies from person to person...we would make him wear his real underwear in daytime at school and they even helped me out with it at the beginning of last year sending him every 30 minutes...but when he heard that timer he knew it was time to try to potty...so thank god above that from then on we have had no problems and have saved several thousand dollars from not having to buy pull ups..

not only did we use the timer..but also started a potty chart..every time he went to the pot he got a star...if he went #2 he got 2 stars or stickers...and when he got to ten stickers he earned a trip to what we called the treasure chest and picked out a prize...we had some of his favorite things..playing cards, string, different little items that wasn't expensive....let him pick an item out..we started this with the timer over last summer..by the end of the summer he wasn't having any accidents at all...if you wanted you could even reward them with an extra sticker on their chart for staying dry..

the process is very frustrating...and it seems like it will never come..but you have to keep with it no matter what and just keep encouraging them..i know this won't help everyone but it may give you some ideas you can try..

edee