toiletting

Hi my 3 and half year old daughter who has ASD will not use the toilet or potty and only uses nappies.

Despites gentle encouragment and 2 year long introduction to toiletting we are have still to have any progress.

Any advice or tips would be lovely.

Thank you in advance Wink

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  • Hi there my son now age 4 had the same issues , it took along time but he got there in the end there is hope Wink the best advise i got that was ground breaking for us was , to buy some suprize toys to put on top of the toilet , to make the toilet a happy place .As much as i tryed to stay positive there had become alot of negativity around using the toilet .So we just tryed to get back to basics and have fun in the toilet intsead of even trying for a wee or anything .This had a great impact on my boy and things slowly improved from there x I wont lie to you tho he does soil as he suffers cronic constipation but he is now even dry at nite and i never thort it possible for him r angels will always amaze us they are so precious x Also since he started school the nurse has told me that training asd children is totaly different as they would respond to a picture instead , she said you could take photos of the toilet or potty and make a little book for them even showing a pic of them on the toilet or potty as they respond well to viual learning x I hope this helps i no how very frustraiting also heartbreaking this issue can be x good luck im sure you will take every best effort you can to guide your little one Smile

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  • Hi there my son now age 4 had the same issues , it took along time but he got there in the end there is hope Wink the best advise i got that was ground breaking for us was , to buy some suprize toys to put on top of the toilet , to make the toilet a happy place .As much as i tryed to stay positive there had become alot of negativity around using the toilet .So we just tryed to get back to basics and have fun in the toilet intsead of even trying for a wee or anything .This had a great impact on my boy and things slowly improved from there x I wont lie to you tho he does soil as he suffers cronic constipation but he is now even dry at nite and i never thort it possible for him r angels will always amaze us they are so precious x Also since he started school the nurse has told me that training asd children is totaly different as they would respond to a picture instead , she said you could take photos of the toilet or potty and make a little book for them even showing a pic of them on the toilet or potty as they respond well to viual learning x I hope this helps i no how very frustraiting also heartbreaking this issue can be x good luck im sure you will take every best effort you can to guide your little one Smile

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