Normal to Regress?

I understand how you feel. Turn your frustration into a learning experience for you and him. Instead continue speaking to your child tell him how you feel about it. Praise him tell him how good he is and you know that he can do it. Decorate the bathroom with thing that he likes to do. Find bathroom signs put it on the refrigerator on the wall, on the door, any where that he will see it to encourage him to use the bathroom and be patient. try not to show him that you are sad when he accidentally wet himself remind him to go to the bathroom. Buy stickers each time he use the bathroom reinforce it with something that he likes or even give him a sticker. It takes time but he will train. I have been there.

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D. , I'm sorry you are going through this I understand how hard it is since my son is also mild PDD hes now five years old. We just got #2 down packed before he turned five this past April. My son had many accidents even after he knew to go to the potty what we did is repeat and repeat over and over and we would asked him every 1/2 hr do you have to go pipi thats what we call it. We did this every day for a while because the accidents did happened even as he was walking to the bathroom at home. For us just repeating over and over I guess it helped yes there were times we had to speak to him firmly because he knew he had to go and still would not get there on time.
There's this new place I just learned about and I missed this seminar this past Saturday the tittle was" How to successfully Live Your Life While Raising a Special Needs Child".
It was being held at Queens College in Queens their phone# ###-###-####, 866-372-9421. Maybe they can help they say to have coaching programs.
There's another place the ECDC-Early Childhood Direction Center they might be able to help you their office in Staten Island ###-###-#### 256C Mason Ave Staten Island NY 10305.
I know that there are programs for our children where they are though how to specially for toilet training.
Try maybe they can guide you a bit more.
I can understand being there and still struggling with all the other issues that come up. Try and take a deep breath so you can go on...god bless
good luck
G.

I have been where you are. I have two children and my oldest had potty training delays. He would have successes and then regress. He is diagnosed with High Functioning Autism. I would like to recommend a book that might help you: The Out of Sync Child by Carol Stock Kronowitz. Your public library will have the book. If you already read the book, you may recall a description of three clocks with different times. The three clocks rarely show the same time, but when they do, everything is in sync. It helped me to keep that in mind when my son was out of sync and was unable to do things he had previously done. I did find that as he had more successes with a skill, he was more "in sync" with that skill. Eventually he was potty trained, something I felt would never happen! I hope this help you in those moments when you feel "it will never happen." I also had a reward system to help encourage my son because as much as I felt discouraged, I know he also felt like potty training was an impossible task for him to master. Self confidence is the most important skill for our children. Without self confidence they will not feel like they can persevere.