Autistic Children and Toileting: Misunderstanding the Difficulties
Adults need to understand that toileting can be the most terrifying experience imaginable for an autistic child whose experience of the world is already turned up to “max.”
Adults need to understand that toileting can be the most terrifying experience imaginable for an autistic child whose experience of the world is already turned up to “max.”
Shannon Des Roches Rosa www.squidalicious.com Most parents fret about their kids’ hygiene and how it is affected by factors like circumcision, tooth brushing, or toilet training. Said fretting escalates when the kids in question have a disability, but hygiene doesn’t have to be the skunk cabbage in the parenting bouquet — not if parents do