My 3 year old son has dd and spd and I was wondering at what age do kids with these issues get potty trained. Thanks, Bernie
It really depends on the child. My son is dd and nonverbal with a brain injury. I started slowly introducing the concept of the potty to him when he was roughly 2 yrs old. He is 5 now and we are only pooped trained. Finally having some success with peeing but its a slow process. Good luck
Hi Bernie, my son is 4 and has 18p deletion, DD and we are in the process of attaining the proper diagnosis for is behavior disorder as well. We began potty training at the age of 2. He will go to the bathroom when prompted to but never on his own and only pee. He is still in pull-ups and we are working hard at it. In my expierience it has taken a long time to get my son to understand the concept and it is a frustrating road. He is 4yrs 4mths and will only use the bathroom when we take him to the potty and ask him to go, he has trouble removing his bottoms and refuses to sit on the potty.Hope this is helpful and good luck with your little one.
There is an older method by 2 psychologists named Azrin and Foxx, they published a couple of books on how to potty train children. They created a method back in the 70's originally to potty train children with special needs.They had like a 95% success rate.They later used it on children without special needs and found it was extremely fast, they coined called it "Toilet training in less than a day".
It's still used today on children with and without special needs. In the back of the book it talks about it talks about how to modify the method to use for special needs children.
Hope this helps, I found the book at: http://www.pottytrainingconcepts.com/0671693808.html.
My 4 year old has speech delays and some dd.... he didn't walk until after he turned two so we didn't even start until he was about 2 1/2 and had the walking thing down... it took a year and a half to finally get him fully trained... I don't know if he would forget or just not want to go but he had a lot of accidents.... I had to take him out of pull ups because if he had them on he would just potty himself instead of going to the bathroom.... I got him some specially made underwear... they were bamboo with a special insert (sort of like cloth diapers but in underwear form) and he did well with those... they obsorbed a lot when he had an accident but he still felt it when he potty'd himself... when he outgrew those I just moved him to regular underwear and he hated feeling the yuck... but he didn't fully potty train until my mom told him he coudlnt go to her house anymore because she didnt wqant to keep wiping his poppy butt and (he was starting Head Start) the he had to be a big boy to go to Bg School...... she didn't actually say it to be mean she was just frustrated but it worked and he was completely trained a week later ..... he has had an occasional accident here and there (mostly at school) but when we talked to him about it he said he thought he had to hold it until bathroom break time and he couldnt ask to go.. so he was trying to hold it unitl the class bathroom break but couldn;t.
SOrry I know that was NO help.
My 2 year old (Halloween b-day) is beginning to potty train. He has moderate developmental delay and severe apraxia (whole body, not just speech).
I was tired of cleaning up diaper messes all day long! He plays in his diapers or takes the diaper off all the time! So, now I take him to sit on the potty before putting a diaper back on him! He even goes to his drawers and brings me big boy underwear! But, we are nowhere near potty trained yet!
Hi! :)
Please read this post from the General Discussion thread. I think you may find some of this to be helpful!
http://www.cafemom.com/group/71/forums/read/15628203/Potty_Training_Help
On week 2 of potty training my 3 year old daughter. She is globally delayed and dyspraxic. I am cleaning up lots of accidents, but when she makes it on time we have huge celebrations. It does seem to be harder potty training her than my other children, but we will keep working on it.
Awesome report card!!
- Bernatka
on Aug. 8, 2010 at 12:07 PM