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Understanding how children learn to use the toilet and why toilet training is important helps us to make sense of the toilet training process. This module provides foundational information on toileting, including why Autistic children may experience difficulties with toilet training.
This module covers:- Toilet training: What is it and why it is important?
- Developmental milestones in toileting
- Toileting in Autistic children
- What to do when your child is having toileting difficulties?
Preparing for toilet training can facilitate a smoother toilet training process and increase the likelihood that your child will develop toileting autonomy. This module outlines how to prepare for toilet training, including timing considerations, the equipment you will need, and setting up the toilet area.
This module covers:- When to begin toilet training: Preparing for toilet sits
- Equipment to support toileting training
- Setting up the toileting area and sensory considerations
While a key aspect of toilet training is learning to eliminate in the toilet, it is essential to prepare children by helping them develop foundational skills first. These include recognising body signals, understanding the toileting process, and learning toileting tasks such as dressing/redressing and washing hands. By focusing on these first, you can help your child become more comfortable and ready for using the toilet.
This module covers:- Supporting understanding of body signals
- Enhancing understanding of the toileting process
- Step-by-step teaching of toileting skills
Autistic children often benefit from additional tailored supports when learning new skills such as toileting. This module discusses the use of visual supports and other teaching aides to support your child to learn to use the toilet.
This module covers:- Ways to support your child through the toileting process
- Visual supports
- Making the toileting process rewarding
This module provides guidance for a gradual, child-led approach to toilet training. A gradual approach means that you follow your child’s cues to progress through the toileting stages. This module focusses specifically on supporting your child to sit on the toilet/potty.
This module covers:- An overview of gradual toilet training: Toilet or potty sits
- Supporting your child’s autonomy with toilet sits
- Key toileting times
- Managing accidents
- Getting out and about
The previous modules have primarily focused on building toileting autonomy related to in-toilet urination. This module expands on those modules by addressing two additional aspects of toileting: Night-time urinary continence and in-toilet defecation.
This module covers:- Nighttime urinary control
- Supporting in-toilet defecation
Once you have some understanding of the toilet training process and different support strategies, you can create an individualised (and adaptable) toilet training plan. There are several important steps and factors to consider in this process.
This module covers:- Steps to creating a toilet training plan
- Managing potential challenges and setbacks