All About Autism

[Snow24]

Hi


How do you teach toileting to asd child age 2 years old.

[chelseanne]

Try ushering her to the loo every 2 hours. Keep on giving her fluids at this time to encourage peeing. Then make it every 1 hour, then 30 mins. Of course you also have to observe how Long can he/she feel peeing or defecate take that opportunity to quickly bring him or her to the toilet.Then every time that she successfully went to the loo and done her poo/pee reward her for a job well done. Expect accidental peeing, or getting her undies wet at this time. Speaking from my experience in training my asd kid. Hope it helps.

[Snow24]

Hi


Can anyone share tips on how to soothe or calm a two years old down in term of emotion regulations.

What did you do to train the child to be able to sit and focus longer.

[Angelique]

Snow24:

Hi slmkhoo


Yes the youngest one who is 2 years old. He ok with soup on rice with potatoes and carrots. But don't like beans eg black bean, baked bean. He also don't like soft food eg tofu, steam fish ball.For meat only minced pork.

My child is very very fussy.... he likes dry/crunch stuff too.
He eats silver fish from restaurants but must ask not to add chilli!!
Try Korean seaweed packs as they don't contain MSG .. my son like them a lot. He also eats breaded praw, pork cutlet - Japanese style.

He didn't eat any fruit until 1 year ago, now he eats strawberries and apple, nothing else - he hates banana!
Strangely now his eating boiled egg for some reason ...?
Good luck! :rahrah:

[Snow24]

Hi Angelique


Thanks for sharing.

Exactly my toddler like the breadcrumb chicken fillet. But he don’t like pork cutlet as too hard for him.

If he don’t like the dishes he can just eat plain rice omg.

Now facing feeding issue. I don’t know how to get him to sit down and eat by himself without having toys on the table.

The challenge is getting him to sit down longer duration and to self feed himself. He only doing 2-3 scooping by himself after that he walked away.

[sharonkhoo]

Snow24:

Now facing feeding issue. I don't know how to get him to sit down and eat by himself without having toys on the table.


The challenge is getting him to sit down longer duration and to self feed himself. He only doing 2-3 scooping by himself after that he walked away.

Do you eat with him? And has he always been allowed to play and walk away? Habits, once built, take longer to break. Start small - eat your meal alongside him, and encourage him to eat enough before walking away. Let him use fingers if a spoon is too difficult to manage, and you can spoon some of the food into him along the way. Don't allow toys or TV. But make clear to him that once he leaves the table, the meal is over for him, and don't let him eat anything else until the next meal. He will not starve if he eats less for a few meals, and hunger is good training tool.

[Snow24]

Hi slmkhoo


He has sustain attention issue and not interested in food.
I am working so I not the one to administer the meal.
His brothers eat with him at separate table as they are older so they dine at dining table.He using the children table.

Previously toys are used to entice and sustain his sitting at high chair when he was younger.He can complete the meal. Now change to sit at chair for meal. His hands, are busy with the toys no hands to self feed himself. If I take, away toys , he would not want to sit at table and chair to eat. Leave seat and walk away. So wonder how to implement the phase out gradually. Should I continue have toys at table let him learn to sustain at seat for longer duration or take away toys let him learn to sit at chair without toys on table compromise with shorter sitting at chair.

Think not easy to break his habit now but gotta do it.

[sharonkhoo]

Snow24:

Hi slmkhoo


He has sustain attention issue and not interested in food.
I am working so I not the one to administer the meal.
His brothers eat with him at separate table as they are older so they dine at dining table.He using the children table.

Previously toys are used to entice and sustain his sitting at high chair when he was younger.He can complete the meal. Now change to sit at chair for meal. His hands, are busy with the toys no hands to self feed himself. If I take, away toys , he would not want to sit at table and chair to eat. Leave seat and walk away. So wonder how to implement the phase out gradually. Should I continue have toys at table let him learn to sustain at seat for longer duration or take away toys let him learn to sit at chair without toys on table compromise with shorter sitting at chair.

Think not easy to break his habit now but gotta do it.

I would just stop having toys there. But if it is your helper or a grandparent supervising the meal, it will be difficult to enforce. Also, can you \"trap\" him in his seat? Like have having a booster seat with straps? Then he can hopefully be persuaded to eat more before walking away at will. Use his brothers to be a good example? You will have to let him sit for a short period initially and extend the period gradually. The main thing is not to let him eat unless he is sitting at the table.

[Snow24]

Hi


Anyone can share how do you teach child hidden social rules, social appropriateness when in public.Our children could be self directed and insisted on doing their ways. They might not think what they did are not appropriate or wrong.How do we educate or let them be aware.

[sharonkhoo]

Snow24:

Hi


Anyone can share how do you teach child hidden social rules, social appropriateness when in public.Our children could be self directed and insisted on doing their ways. They might not think what they did are not appropriate or wrong.How do we educate or let them be aware.

Use social stories, role play. And lots of explanations about what other people are thinking and how they are reacting. Then before going to similar situations, run through the social stories again. It will take many repetitions over many years.