I tried to order the book from Amazon, but the website says it's unavailable! Does anyone know another place to order? 7 1/2 year old who just won't BM in the toilet! Thanks all, AoA is a blessing.

Our daughter is 8 yrs old now. But we trained our daughter and we are atleast 90% successful. Sometimes she passes out urine during cold nights in which we are yet to succeed.
Take your child to potty frequently say once in an hour, make him/her sit with polite instructions and give instructions continuously NAME + ", do potty". A cold water sprinkle on genitals also will help easing out.

Please Please Please!!! We need this book!! Thanks for adding me.

Would love this for a buddy who is trying to get her son trained.

My ASD kiddo is 8 - we need help!

Oh do I ever need this...I work with kids on the spectrum and also have a Grandson that is 5 and has Autism! Thanks for the chance to win.

Hi.
I really need help with potty training for my son, 5 year old who has autism. He is good with #1 (did it when he was 3 year old), but with #2, he used diapers, until now, so I tried to get rid of them, and now he doesn't mind to that on his pants! I couldn't believe it, because he never did it before. If I didn't give him diaper, he used to hold it as long as he can. Now he just does #2 on his clothes without any hesitating. Hopefully we can find something to help.

Hi I have twin son's that are toilet trained except for overnight. This will be our next challenge as some nights I think they are totally ready (dry) & others their goodnight is soaked. I find it depends on what we are doing bio-med wise....I also work for an Autism agency that serves over 100 children on the spectrum & with other dev. delays this book would be a very valuable tool to helping parents.
Here's hoping! :>)

My six year old son was finally potty trained during the day at age 5. (Thanks to biomedical and LDN) The problem we have now is he tries to hide when he has to poop. We have just found out that he started "stashing" stool in areas around the house. (GROSS! I know) Behind the tv, couch, his bed... We have talked to him about it but it seems to be still happening. Not sure what else to do about this at this point. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

my son who is not only on the autism spectrum, altho very high functioning, also has slight cerebral palsy, and seems unable to know when he is going until he feels the stuff in his diaper. (size 6's and now too small!)
when he sits on the toilet he can be peeing and has no knowledge that it is happening, until i point out to him the tinkle sound in the water below.
when he takes a bath, sometimes he voids his bowels and doesn't know until he notices the 'messy' stuff among the bubbles.
don't know if any method can help if he hasn't conscious sensation of the events.
he still 'goes' at night.
when he awakens in the morning if we make it in time to actually have him pee in the toilet, he can't feel that he is going.
does anyone know if this book can help him to learn to feel the sensations of going?
i would love to get resolve in this matter...pretty soon we're gonna be going to the far more expensive adult diapers otherwise, as i have found no kids diapers on the shelves at stores beyond size 6.
thanks to the woman who wrote this book, for all of the folk it may help.

Unique, unconventional and may seem strange... sounds like a fit for our family :-P

We're at this stage where we're preparing to start toileting. Sounds like a great book :-D

7.5 a we are still having poop and pee in the pants. At least through biomed, she can tell me that she did so.

For those who mentioned retained urine, there are herbs and homeopathy that can take care of that rather quickly and without side effects.

I would love to try the methods in this book. 5 year old boy with autism - and still not potty trained. Thanks for this contest!

My book is truly unique. It addresses the change that is so difficult for these children.I have worked with so many families over the years, that I have heard it all.
The book is your answer. It does work!
Debbie Bialer

Can this book help a 20 year old?? If so, I want this book.

We still have problems during evening unscheduled (read no tutor or support person) hours or emotionally difficult periods

Chantal

Ohhh...Sounds like a GREAT book! I could really use it! Good luck everyone!
Angie
Mom to Ethan, Alex, and Megan

I posted a while back that some forms of encephalopathy or encephalities specifically measles virus, can cause urine retention...I wish they would study that....

Unfortunately, I had the opposite problem with urine (bed wetting)...so who knows, maybe something is screwed up in the cranial nerves that control urine and gut function? Me thinks so.

By the way, those same kids with autism with these problems, often have lyme...think of paralysis of the gut by Virginia SHERR et al (google, "paralysis of the gut).

Please add my son Matthew to the running...he will *sometimes* sit (with lots of crying/drama) on the potty but refuses to do his business. When I ask him if he's a baby or a big boy he says "I'm baby, need a diaper"...ugggg!

Potty training was a challenge for me with my twins, and I have to admit I cannot stand Dr. Phil, but I wanted to share what helped my children on the odd chance it might help someone. As we all know, every child is different. While my children have ASD, they were also quite stubborn about potty training, and they put up quite a fight to resist this change. My kids had numerous books and videos on potty training. None did anything for them. Then, I noticed a TV ad for a Dr. Phil special (I think it was the Primetime Special : Family First), so I watched this special, with intense contempt for Dr. Phil, with my husband and kids. I remember saying to my husband at the beginning of the program, "I'd like to see Dr. Phil spend a day with our kids and see how he does!" I said this with bitterness as I felt he would not stand even a 1% chance of success. Well, like I said, my kids were watching this TV special, too. As soon as the short footage of Dr. Phil helping two celebrity mom's kids achieve potty success ended, both of my children were fighting to get onto the potty to make #1 and #2. They literally raced to the bathroom in competition with each other. I looked at my husband in shock and amazement. Dr. Phil made me eat my words. While it still took my children a few months longer to go to the bathroom on their own on a regular basis, I still laugh thinking about it, and I realize how fortunate I am that I can laugh about it. Potty training is serious business for all of us.

For a friend of mine, what worked was intensive ABA with rewards for each successful or even near successful attempt. I wish everyone the best. My kids were not fully trained until age 4, and 4 and 3 months. For my son, I had to actually throw out the pull ups and let him know that there would be no more of them, ever. I think he would have stayed in them forever, if he could have.

Think it would only work for some children,(and the vibration and sound might be bad for some kids with autism) but the "Malem Ultimate" was useful for our family.
You could attach it to underwear, put a pull-up over it,and then wear the thing and it would start to alarm as soon as it started to get wet.
Had one child who could not feel it when he was urinating,so this helped him start to realize what sensation correlated with going to the bathroom. He wore it during the day too at one point,and it took a little while, but it worked for him.
Had another child who wet the bed constantly,( probably never had more than a total of 8 or 10 dry nights before the age of 8 when we introduced the pager) and it worked for him too.Though as the parent ,I had to get up and coax him to the bathroom every time the alarm went off. Quite a few sleepness nights for Mom before we got it resolved, but it was worth it to see him finally stagger (by himself!) to the bathroom.And then it got to the point where he only needed to get up first thing in the morning.(yes!)
Am sure this would only work for certain types of incontinence problems,( and does not do anything for bowel movements) but maybe someone else will find it helpful for them too?

Hello,

I have a friend that is in desparate need of help for her nine year old daughter. She will pee but not poop. Still playing and smearing and she is somewhat verbal. Mom has two younger children and she is so weary with all of this. Her daughter gets out of bed in the middle of the night and you can imagine it is not a pretty site. I hope she can win this book, she needs all the help she can get.

Thanks,

Judy

Yes please. My son is almost 4 1/2. I would love to have him potty trained.

HELLO!!! I AM THE MOMMY TO TREVOR, THREE AND A HALF, WITH PDD-NOS. WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON POTTY TRAINGING FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS...........PLEASE HELP!!! WE WOULD LOVE THIS BOOK, AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS TO A T!