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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:44:03 PST
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- From: Edward Tam <etam@DELTA.TYMNET.COM>
- Subject: Toilet Training
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- >From: Daniel Mont <D6M%CORNELLA.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
- >Subject: Re: Toilet Training
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- >We had a discussion about toilet training awhile back on the net (not
- >suprisingly) and found (also not surprisingly) that a lot of our autistic
- >children had difficulty with toilet training. We found that Alex (our autistic
- >son) improved a lot while Simon (our non-autistic son) was toilet training. We
- >didn't think this was a "I want attention too" response. Rather I think all
- >the talk about it made him more aware and reminded him that this was
- >something to think about. Similarly, he regressed at school the first
- >few weeks (but not at home) but the teacher helped make it part of
- >his routine (and reminded him about it) and that seemed to set him
- >on track. It depends on how high functioning your child is (mine is
- >pretty high) but even things like telling him I was going, would
- >he like to try too, was helpful.
-
- Daniel, Thanks for your response. Do you mind tell me how old was
- Alex when he was toilet-trained and as well as the age of his
- brother (I presume Simon is younger than Alex?). Our second boy -
- Fabian is non-autistic and he is around 15 months old now. We are
- very eager to see what is the effect on Leon when we start toilet
- train Fabian?
-
- Regards,
-
- Edward Tam
-