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Upcoming Workshop: Better Toilet Teaching: Getting Started & Overcoming Challenges

Posted on February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 by chayahlichtig

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A workshop for parents and providers from the Vermont Continence Project

Teaching toileting to a child can be stressful and uncertain. If you are preparing to introduce your child, client, student, etc. to the potty, or have hit bumps in the road, this workshop may help. Workshop will include lecture and Q&A. A recording will be provided.

Wednesday March 8^th, 7-8:30 via Zoom.

Register: go.uvm.edu/cproj-workshop

The Vermont Continence Project promotes positive, person-centered, science-driven toileting & continence supports for Vermont’s children and youth.

We help improve incontinence care and toilet teaching regardless of disability or health status.

EVENT: Better Toilet-Teaching: A Parent/Caregiver Workshop

Posted on November 10, 2022November 13, 2022 by chayahlichtig

Better Toilet-Teaching: A Parent/Caregiver Workshop

Teaching toileting to your child can be stressful and uncertain. If you are preparing to introduce your child to the potty, or have hit bumps in the road, this workshop may help. The workshop is also open to professionals

This workshop will include a lecture portion (approximately 1 hour), as well as a Q&A (approximately 30 minutes).

Wednesday, November 16, 7-8:30 PM, via Zoom

If you cannot attend at this time, a recording will be provided to everyone who registers

To Register: go.uvm.edu/cproj-november

To Learn More: go.uvm.edu/continence Questions? continence.project@uvm.edu

GUIDE: How to Ask a Learner to Use the Toilet

Posted on August 8, 2022August 8, 2022 by chayahlichtig

On the Vermont Continence Project, we often ask questions about how a team prompts a learner to go to the toilet: Do they take him/her by the hand? Tap them on the shoulder and point? Use this chart with your toilet-teaching team to find the right level of prompting to let your learner know your expectations. We generally recommend that adults use the least invasive prompt they can, as this tends to decrease push back from the toilet learner.

prompt heirarchy

GUIDE: Steps to Toileting Participation

Posted on June 27, 2022August 8, 2022 by chayahlichtig

Thumbnail of Steps to Participation Table There is so much more to toileting than just continence! This guide shows many of the other skills we support teams to build for their toilet learners. If your toilet learner is resisting (or having a hard time with) continence skills, consider shifting your focus to some of these other skills for a while.