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Soiling issue

Justme

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?? 

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  • Hi there

    My son, who is now 6, went through a phase of soiling and smearing when he was around 4 years old and it lasted 5 months.  He has Aspergers.  We let him accompany us to the loo, explaining each step.  We went with him, with his permission, to the loo and gave him guidance.  We had a sticker chart (and still do for other things) that meant that one of the rules was not to have too much poo (and we showed him on the days when there was 'too much' what it looked like) on his pants at the end of the day.  Another goals was not to have smears of poo on the loo roll or tiles around the toilet.  If he had 5 days of stickers then he got his prearranged treat for the week.  He was of course praised along the way verbally and lots of high 5's.  This seemed to work really well and we shared what we were doing with the school nursery so that they could reinforce as much as they could.  I think it all came about as he was going through a period of olfactory sensory seeking behaviour.  Everything, and I mean everything, was passed by under his nose to be sniffed and experienced.  This phase has passed and many others have come and gone after it.  I hope this is helpful to you and let us know how you get on :-)  Thanks for sharing...

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  • Hi there

    My son, who is now 6, went through a phase of soiling and smearing when he was around 4 years old and it lasted 5 months.  He has Aspergers.  We let him accompany us to the loo, explaining each step.  We went with him, with his permission, to the loo and gave him guidance.  We had a sticker chart (and still do for other things) that meant that one of the rules was not to have too much poo (and we showed him on the days when there was 'too much' what it looked like) on his pants at the end of the day.  Another goals was not to have smears of poo on the loo roll or tiles around the toilet.  If he had 5 days of stickers then he got his prearranged treat for the week.  He was of course praised along the way verbally and lots of high 5's.  This seemed to work really well and we shared what we were doing with the school nursery so that they could reinforce as much as they could.  I think it all came about as he was going through a period of olfactory sensory seeking behaviour.  Everything, and I mean everything, was passed by under his nose to be sniffed and experienced.  This phase has passed and many others have come and gone after it.  I hope this is helpful to you and let us know how you get on :-)  Thanks for sharing...

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