Category: Family Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishing Company
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 144
Copyright: July, 2010
ISBN-13: 9781849058339
Toilet Training for Children with Autism, and other Developmental Disorders. Coming summer of 2010 to a bookstore near you! Few texts on potty training people with developmental disorders are available in today's market. This book offers an Individualized approach, which means that it can work for almost anyone.
*Packed with practical ideas and
solutions to problems.
*Includes a useful checklist to help
you potty train your special-needs child with confidence.
Toilet training a child with developmental disorders can present a vast array of challenges, many of which are not associated with teaching a neurotypical child how to use a potty. In this book, Brenda Batts overcomes difficulties and provides tried and tested methods that really work, tailored to each individual child.
Bursting with ideas on how to see past conventional strategies and adapt toilet training to suit your child, this book outlines methods that have helped even the most despairing of parents and caregivers. Examples of success range from two year olds to adults aged twenty, and show that no matter how difficult it may seem, a little creativity and adaptation can get anyone toilet trained, no matter how many previous attempts have failed. The program itself is supported by plenty of helpful hints and tips, as Brenda covers all you need to get your child past the diaper stage and help them achieve a big step towards independence.
This book will be essential reading for anybody looking to toilet train someone with developmental disorders.
Excerpt
Potty training is one of the most significant milestones for children whether they have special needs or not. For years, the issue of potty training has been a difficult one for parents, and teachers of special-needs children. We as parents and teachers think of potty training as our responsibility; a responsibility that we feel entails our full involvement, without taking into consideration that the responsibility for potty training lies on the person being potty trained.
Potty training a child with special needs is often difficult, because we view the potty training process as a stressful situation. The stress related to potty training issues is due to the absence of skills and knowledge that parents, and teachers of special-needs children might have, knowledge and skills necessary to implement a potty training program that requires full understanding of the process, and knowledge of the skills necessary to achieve success. For special-needs children, the stress in potty training originates from being introduced to a new concept, and their failure to acquire the necessary skills to understand the expectations involved in the potty training process, coupled with their failure to generalize that concept, and be able to use their newfound learning across different environments. There are many potty training programs available for parents, and teachers of special-needs children, but they often lack specificity, and a clear map to help children achieve success. Parents, and teachers may also see the potty training process as a huge task to undertake when in fact, the process of potty training children with special needs is one of the easiest skills to teach, if we implement a program that has as its core principle the critical components of a successful program: order, predictability, and routine.
Let this coming of age story of a boy named Bean take you back to a simple time. Set in a small southern town in the 1960's, encircled by a river and gleaming white cotton fields.
Let this coming of age story of a boy named Bean take you back to a simple time. Set in a small southern town in the 1960's, encircled by a river and gleaming white cotton fields.
