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Some children with Dyspraxia have difficulties getting potty trained and with other activities such as bottom wiping- do you have concerns you want to discuss?
Potty training can be hard for some children with Dyspraxia also the difficulties of learning how to wipe bottoms properly.
It is sometimes the conversation that everyone avoids. Have you had difficulties with your child?
How have you found successful ways of helping- share them with others.
My 7 year old son has problems with bed wetting. He has never had a dry nappy and now has started having bowel movements at night. Can you help?
I have a 12 year old son with Verbal Dyspraxia who wets during the day, but is generally dry at night. Is this linked to the dyspraxia? It has been investigated twice by paediatricians, lastly trying Oxybutinin but this made him doubly incontinent, and the Paediatrician said nothing further could be done. His school are now pushing for further investigations but I don’t know where to turn, can you give any advice please?
My little boy will be 3 and a half next month and has DCD as well as sensory integration issues. He refuses to sit on a potty or a toilet seat as he says it hurts him. Do you have any advice?
He also doesn’t seem to be aware that he’s having a bowel movement or doing a wee until a second or two before he’s doing it so he seems to be a long way off being potty trained even if he were amenable to it. Is this developmental delay directly attributable to the DCD and what specifically causes it?
It is sometimes difficult to know why there is some delay. He is still quite young and there is wide developmental variation.
OK- bed wetting first- try the website ERIC- see organisations on this site- they have some great ideas and methods of helping including use of alarms.It can run in families- and around 10% of 5 year olds still wet at night.
Wetting at night and verbal dyspraxia- I dont know of any link between the two. Could you ask school to take him to the toilet on a very regular basis so he has opportunity. Could they also use a card system so he can tell them if he needs to go.
3 year old and potty training- he may not be getting an adequate sensation. try and make it a good experience, tempting him with raisins for example or watching TV for with you if he sits on it for a few minutes. Leave it around and give him the opportunity to use it. You can get potties with tunes if you pee in them= this can give him a signal if he is successful also.
My 10 year old was diagnosed with dysphraxia at 8yrs and has always struggled to wipe his bottom clean himself. This is now getting embarrassing for him and causes difficulties at school. I have tried everything I can think of with no success.