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 A Potty Story
B
y Brenda Lanaux

                                                    
Potty training can be a very difficult milestone for every child especially one with Autism Spectrum Disorders. We were seeing success with number 1, but number 2 needed work.

Families Helping Families gave us a stipend (Provided by the Louisiana Developmental Disabilities Council) to attend the Louisiana Autism Society State Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At this conference, my husband and I were able toattend a breakout session, “ABA applied to Feeding and Toileting Difficulties for Persons on the Autism Spectrum.”  After this, we were able to successfully potty train our son, Nathan, at age 6.

We began by placing pictures of chocolate cupcakes in his room and the bathroom and discussed that this is the reward for going poop in the potty. While we continually explained that he would only get the cupcake by using the potty, after a few weeks there was still no success. Until one day, Nathan pooped his pants for the last time. We had had it! We thought that maybe if we could enlist his older brother to help by showing Nathan how things work he would understand. We asked Michael to have Nathan watch him poop in the potty, look in the potty to see the result, receive praise, and then eat a chocolate cupcake. After watching his brother, Nathan was very upset that he did not get one too; he cried and screamed that he wanted a chocolate cupcake.  We told him to poop in the potty and he could have one.  Nathan ran to the bathroom and squeezed out a very small poop and was given a whole chocolate cupcake. Since then we have had zero accidents and have faded the large cupcake to a bite of chocolate. Thank you Families Helping Families.

 
 


 

 

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