Toileting

Thinking about toilet training your child? Here are some tips from our Health Visiting team including helping children with additional needs.

Tips on preparation

 

 

What to do on the day

   

There will be accidents, it takes some children a little longer to learn this new skill.

🌙✨Nighttime dryness is a different process, with children usually being older.

How to keep it going

 

Toileting for children with additional needs

Routine is really important.  Find some top tips below on how to help your child.

        

Toileting, is an extremely sensory experience. Many children find that bathrooms and toilets are upsetting or scary.

They may have difficulties in understanding the sensations experienced by their own body, and knowing how to react to them.

For further information and more hints and tips on how to support your child visit: https://eric.org.uk/sensory-needs-and-toileting/

You can also contact your SSAFA Community Children's Nurse for support.

Contact your SSAFA Health Visitor if you have any questions or need any support.

Useful websites:

How to potty train - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Potty training: how to start & best age to potty train - ERIC

https://eric.org.uk/potty-training/children-additional-needs/