Toilet Training - A Gentle Developmental Approach
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A gentle developmental approach to Toilet Training for families of children with varying support needs. Taking place on ZOOM on June 12th 2021 7.30pm -9.30pm
About this Event
Toilet Training - A Gentle Developmental Approach.
For many parents, the thought of toilet training their little ones can be overwhelming.
Having toilet trained my own children and supported countless children (with varying levels of support needs) on their journey to toileting independence, I can tell you it can be done without those feelings of overwhelm.
My approach to Toilet Training has always been to focus on the child and the parent.
Toileting independence is a huge developmental milestone for children. If your children have additional needs, you may find you are meeting additional barriers to success in toileting. There can be regressions, withholding, sensory differences, intellectual and communicative misunderstandings.
Toilet Training: A Gentle Developmental Approach will seek to support families in helping their children on their toileting independence.
This workshop is an introduction to toilet training for families of children who are autistic, and/or who have intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Topics included:
Toileting Readiness - Step by Step Advices
Incremental & Gentle Approach to Day & Night Time Training
Withholding & Bowel Movements
Sensory Differences
Regressions
Visual Supports
Practical Strategies
Lived Experiences
Facing challenges and fears
Recommendations
Question & Answer Time
For more information contact me through my social media on Instagram or Facebook
There are limited places available so book now to avoid disappointment.
I look forward to meeting you at the training.
Amanda
Organiser Amanda Mc Guinness
Organiser of Toilet Training - A Gentle Developmental Approach
Amanda Mc Guinness is a Law Graduate, autistic adult, Autism Consultant, and Visual Support Designer from the West of Ireland. She is an experienced Webinar/Workshop Facilitator, presenting to parents and professionals all over the world online and in person.
She is a mother to 4 children, 3 of whom are autistic. Amanda's children have varying degrees of support needs and multiple co-morbid dx including intellectual disability, learning difficulties, sensory processing differences, apraxia of speech, dyspraxia, anxiety, insomnia.
Amanda's Visual Supports have been featured on and recommended by Government bodies, organisations, charities and associations all over the world. To name but a few: the NHS, HSE, AsIam, The National Autistic Society UK, The National Autism Association of America, New South Wales Government, Dr. Stephen Shore, Jed E. Baker, have featured and recommended Amanda's Visual Supports.
To learn more about Amanda's Visual Supports go to her websites www.theautismeducator.ie and www.littlepuddins.ie
Amanda is most well known online for her philanthropic design and sharing of visual supports and educational resources to families of children with additional needs the world over.
Her most recent design “What is the Coronavirus?” Social Story became a viral sensation when Amanda designed and shared for free online, the Social Story(TM), to support children just like her own, who were struggling to understand what was happening and why their world had changed so drastically in an instant.
Amanda and her family have been sharing their lives on-line since 2015 when Amanda launched Mayo’s first autism family blog -The Little Puddins Blog.
Through her family blog Amanda and her family have been on the most extraordinary journey, through TV appearances on The Late Late Show as Autism Ambassadors, to appearances on Prime Time, Ireland AM, RTÉ News and Virgin Media. Amanda and her little Puddins have featured in print and on-line across the world. Follow Amanda over on Instagram @littlepuddins.ie or over on her Facebook Blog for daily up dates on her family's life together with blog posts, resources, and recommendations.
Amanda’s lived experience as an autistic individual, her lived experience raising and home-schooling her three autistic sons together with her professional experience as an Autism Consultant and Early Intervention Educator, inspires parents of children with additional needs all over the world through her online social media platforms.
On the birth of Amanda's first son with additional needs, Amanda walked away from her Law Career and dedicated her life to support her children's progress. 40 years of lived experience as an autistic female together with over a decade of experience supporting her children, Amanda has a wealth of lived experience to share, together with her Professional experience, training and qualifications over the last decade.
