Soiling issue

My son is six now and seven in June he has been soiling since may last year. There has been many a reason that has cropped up ie/ sensory, germs on the toilet and not knowing he wants to go. He is not nor was constipated. It all started in school and now its all the time. We ahve tried social storys having cleaning stuff to clean toilet before he goes. We have done a poo fact file. We have tried getting him to start cahnging himself. None have worked. At present i have a lady helping me from a parent class she is from learning disabilites team but her help comes to a end at the end of the class in 3 weeks. My son was refered to the learning disabilites team but they won't take him on as he doesn;t have a learning disability. HE is under the childrens incontience  team but they only have a couple of ideas as her expertise is in the medical side and my sons soiling is behvoural! I am now worried as whats going to happen if the incontience team runs out of ideas who can i get to help?? 

Parents
  • Hi Justme

    I know myself how difficult this is to solve and how frustrating it is. Here's a link to some NAS information on the subject:

    http://www.autism.org.uk/living-with-autism/understanding-behaviour/toilet-training.aspx

    Hopefully you'll find that interesting and maybe some of the ideas will be helpful.

    I just wanted to reassure you that these things do take time to sort out, hopefully some of the things you've been doing already will eventually help. Behaviour patterns are difficult to change. Also your son could be having trouble recognising the feeling that he needs to go in time, so it could just be that it's going to take hime a bit longer. With my son, I felt that he just needed a bit of extra motivation so I resorted to good old fashioned bribery - it didn't always work as he got so engrossed in things sometimes.

    I'm also looking forward to reading what some of our other users have to say about their experiences in this tricky matter!

Reply
  • Hi Justme

    I know myself how difficult this is to solve and how frustrating it is. Here's a link to some NAS information on the subject:

    http://www.autism.org.uk/living-with-autism/understanding-behaviour/toilet-training.aspx

    Hopefully you'll find that interesting and maybe some of the ideas will be helpful.

    I just wanted to reassure you that these things do take time to sort out, hopefully some of the things you've been doing already will eventually help. Behaviour patterns are difficult to change. Also your son could be having trouble recognising the feeling that he needs to go in time, so it could just be that it's going to take hime a bit longer. With my son, I felt that he just needed a bit of extra motivation so I resorted to good old fashioned bribery - it didn't always work as he got so engrossed in things sometimes.

    I'm also looking forward to reading what some of our other users have to say about their experiences in this tricky matter!

Children
No Data