The Autism Toilet Training Handbook: Essential Strategies for Home and School

by Mary Wrobel

Overview

When it comes to toilet training children on the autism spectrum, Mary Wrobel’s latest book is a must-have.

Toilet training is challenging for most children; autistic kids bring different challenges and different situations. Wrobel’s step-by-step tips and expert insights are an excellent roadmap for toilet training kids with Asperger's or autism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781957984186
Publisher:	Future Horizons, Inc.
Publication date:	05/02/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

A retired teacher and speech-language pathologist, Mary Wrobel worked with students with autism or Asperger's syndrome for more than twenty-five years. She wrote Taking Care of Myself for teenagers and Young Adults to help teach students with autism and Asperger's how to live safe and healthy lives. She also trained both parents and professionals in the area of puberty and its accompanying safety, cleanliness, and health issues. This is Mary Wrobel's third publication with Future Horizons. Her book, Taking Care of Myself: A Hygiene, Puberty and Personal Curriculum for Young People with Autism, won an iParenting Media Award.

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Begin with a Plan
Once you have decided to truly begin toilet training, you need to generate a plan with your family. This needs to be a plan you can stick with, and not quit when it becomes difficult, and it’s very likely that it will become difficult. To generate a plan, parents/caregivers need to write out their plan, with step-by-step procedures. Included in those procedures should be how you, parents and caregivers, plan to respond to refusals and meltdowns. Additionally, you need to anticipate setbacks. Setbacks and failures will happen, but that doesn’t mean you quit the plan. Adjusting for setbacks, but continuing with the toileting plan, is the goal.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Autism and Toilet Training
2. Laying the Groundwork for Successful Toileting
3. Getting Started
4. Language and Communication
5. Addressing Anxiety
6. Addressing Sensory Sensitivities and Aversions
7. Creating a Toileting Plan
8. Rewards and Incentives
9. Implementing the Plan
10. Charting Progress
11. Older Children and Toileting
12. Tackling Problems Associated with Toilet Training
13. Diapers To Underwear
14. Nighttime Toilet Training
15. Support Stories