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Any advice on potty training for #2 would be appreciated
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For Potty Training #2, you need to understand what you’re child will do anything for and figure out if they’ll sit if you ask. I need more information but lets start there!
What if they won’t sit on the potty?
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If your child wont sit we have to baseline what he will do in association to the potty. Will he be in the room with it? Will he touch it? If he’ll sit and pop back up? Then once we have our data, we an build from there. For example, if he’ll sit and pop back up, then you can set a timer and tell him if he’ll sit for 10 seconds, he’ll get a skittle. Then you build up the time 10s, 15s, 30s. All the while there is no requirement to eliminate, just sit.
Any recommendations on how to get your 8 year old to stop pulling his pants down in school….
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When our children with Autism have behaviors such as this, we want to understand the FUNCTION of it first. Why do you think he’s pulling down his pants? What happens before, when he does it, and after? Once you understand this, and share with me, I can help you figure out how to solve it!
Hi My name is Karen and I have beautiful special grandson named Noah Noah is 3.5 years old. He was diagnosed being on the spectrum (Autistic Spectrum) back in March 2022, he is non verbal and not potty trained he was in Aba therapy but it was stopped due to him “ aging out” now he started special preschool which is supposed to 2 days a week but isn’t always I feel he needs more
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Have you looked into ABA through his health insurance. Once he ages out of Early Intervention, you can get that through most health insurances.
Also I have a free training for Potty Training and Communication, I can send to you, let me know if you’re interested. Sending love! xoxo
My son Anthony is 4yo he was diagnosed autistic in January of 2021. He is level 3 non verbal self injurious, he started aba therapy in March of 2021 he has progressed very slowly. He has learned how to use some pecs and some signs but has not spoke injures himself very often gets aggressive has been prescribed a helmet that we were working on getting him to wear. But all of the sudden on Friday I received a phone call under the guise of a parent meeting to be told my son is being discharged from there aba center. No warning or anything even though I attend a parent meeting almost every week since he’s been going there and they never even mentioned that this was a possibility.
This past is for other parents of special needs children is this normal? Is it legal? Should I contact diwhn? I’m lost my son needs help more than I can provide on my own I thought that was supposed to be aba but now I just don’t know. Are there any other treatments or therapies for autism? What has worked for you and your families? If anyone knows what direction to point me in that would be amazing thanks for reading.
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I would call his insurance and see about what other ABA Agencies that are in network that provide in home services vs center based. If he has intensive needs a 1:1 approach will suit him better to neutralize some of these behaviors and then we can look at center based again.
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The methods I use to help my child and 1000s of other children can also help teens and adults. I’d love to know more about what’s going on with your baby
Hi, my son just sits on the toilet. He knows we change him in the bathroom but he never does it on the toilet and he does it in his pull ups later.
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So the idea here is to get him to want to do it. What is something he loves that he’d do anything for access to? What if you didn’t eventually put a pull up on?
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So I listed out 10 things that my girl would ask me for every day. Then I looked at modified sign language signs to represent them. So for example, I never taught her “More” or “give me” or “please” because you can sign that for everything. We looked at some easy signs and started there. I have a video where i show you exactly how I did that, if you want I can send that over to you. LMK!
My son is 4 non verbal he will say very few words but a lot with his mouth closed. We can’t get him to vocalize everything
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So I need more deets but what i would do for him is teach a bridge form of communication fluently. That could be PECs, sign language or an AAC device. Get that going for ALL requests and then we can focus on vocal language xox
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What do you think was the cause? We have to understand the function of the behavior to help reduce, eliminate and substitute for more appropriate behavior (If it’s a child’s go-to to communicate)
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So we want to build on the progress you have by making it fun for your teen to use the bathroom. What is something that they love that they would do anything to have access to?
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This guide works for ALL CHILDREN
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Your child would have to not have a catheter to potty train. Is that an option?
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I am the admin and founder of this group. My daughter was a part of phase 2 of the duke clinical trial. What I’ve learned through all the things we’ve done to help my daughter is advocacy is key and the cells are not a silver bullet. For us, the primary needle mover was behavioral therapies. I now run a group coaching program for parents of children with Autism who are struggling with things such as potty training, communication, and problem behaviors. Let me know if you have any questions.
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It depends on how dedicated you will finish it.
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Speech Language Pathologist can help with literacy, speech delays, pragmantic speech, implementing ACC devices you name it. My SLP specializes in Literacy.
I have a five year old with very bad Autism and genetic decease she hand guides she can talk some but doesn’t she will sing she is doing a lot better since her coma caused by sezures and made her forget everything she had learned up until a few months ago when it happened She is very smart I can tell and I love her too death
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This workshop will help your baby. If she can hand lead, she can learn a more functional way to communicate. If she can repeat things she hears, she can be vocal requesting wants and needs. Very good signs mama that language is coming
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We have an amazing SLP that specializes in literacy apart of my group coaching program. Can you tell me more about your baby? Do they speak? Autism Diagnosis?
My son is 12, severe autism, nonverbal and incredibly stubborn. He will happily sit on the toilet if I ask him to … but not when he has to poop. He has a ritual he does that is far more rewarding than anything we could offer. He gets violent when the ritual is disrupted, so for safety we try to only push him on this when the male ABA staff is there — so he has figured out how to poop when they are not around. No one knows what to do anymore.
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What is the ritual? Tell me about his day… does he pee standing or sitting on the toilet? What does he LOVE that he would do anything to have access to?
If I give him my phone he’ll stay seated on the potty. But he still refuses to poop. As soon as I take him off he’ll either hide in a corner or go somewhere out of site to poop. He’ll bring us a pull-up when he has his big boy underwear on to poop. “
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what else he likes besides the phone -does he like food? sweets? anything else to get him to sit. Then we can use the phone to get him to poop. Another thing is when he goes and “sneaks a poop” we can grab him and put him on the potty to catch the poop and reinforce him with more phone and praise!
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We didn’t actually have any speech therapy at first… she learned to talk strictly through ABA.
Does this also work for adults with autism that act like children and have needs like children with Autism/Asperger’s. My daughter is 27 but acts much younger. She has Asperger’s and ADD and Bipolar with Depression. She is on meds and seeing a caseworker 3 times a month to talk things out. And she has me of course! But other than that she has no friends!!! She won’t talk to people in public places. She said they judge her because she’s a big girl and because she has autism. She plays video games all day or role plays with on line so called friends to whom she gets upset at very easily and blocks until she calms down and rethinks things and unblocks them. Very childish behavior I have to put up with at times with my daughter who’s be 27 and at other times wow the conversations we could have can get deep. Like I’m talking to a very old wise soul.
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yea!! I venture to say this works with All Children and All grownups 🙂. Behavior never lies!!!
Logic would dictate that all communication is connected and one skill could potentially help grow others. People that are anti sign language baffle me
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I use to be anti sign. I thought that she would never talk if I taught her sign language. But I committed to giving it a try. Not only did my peanut learn 10 signs in a week, sign language was what brouht my baby back to me.
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So we would want to get him neutral to sitting on the toilet first without any expectation of elimination. What is something small you can reward him with, just to touch the potty.. then to sit with pants on.. then pants off. We build up the tolerance just to sit for 3-5 mins enough to get a pee or poop out. Only once this is mastered, we can go on to actual potty training. I run a group coaching program that has a 100% success rate for potty training and use the exact steps in the guide to help train these babies. If you’d like more information on my program, let me know and I can dm it to you.
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I have a workshop I did that can help you get started teaching him a bridge form of communication, if you’re interested I can dm you the link. Let me know.
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So what are you thoughts about only giving the ipad as a reward for using the potty?
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Did you pick up this guide? I also have a free workshop on Potty Training that I can send you. Let me know and Ill dm that over.
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Lets see.. My daughter would be one.. and I actually interview her all the time, she feels like a superstar and she loves that there are so many babies out there that are like her. We also have a Adult with Autism that is a BCBA in my program, who did not speak till the age of 7.
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We do not have a date yet to when we are going to do it again for 2023, but if you sign up this time you can always have access to your very own membership dashboard with free course and guide and can watch all the replays and attend to the future LIVE WORKSHOP 🙂
access to the membership dashboard with free course and guide together with the replays and Private facebook group support is LIFETIME 🙂
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Just sent you a message but it might have went to your other inbox. I would like to help you with potty training, can you tell me what’s going? What have you tried? Where are you stuck? TIA
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3 years old
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Would love it. Can drop me an email and we can setup a time to chat? michelle@michellebrogers.com
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I am a Life Coach and Autism Mom. I offer group and 1:1 coaching for parents of children with Autism to help them with all goals for their babies, etc.
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Yes, my program works for ALL CHILDREN 🙂