Potty Training

There are a series of readiness that your child needs to be before you start potty training.

According to Potty Time For Kids With Down Syndrome, this includes:

• The ability to walk (so they can walk to the bathroom on their own)
• Urinating a fair amount at once or having “dry periods.”
• Having the fine motor skills to be able to dress and undress themselves
• Being able to sit in one place for a period of time
• Disliking the feelings of a wet or dirty diaper
• Having a way to communicate the need to go

In collaboration with Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, NDSC’s past president, Dr. Kishore Vellody, discusses assessing toilet training readiness and general concepts of toilet training. Toilet Training Part 1 and Toilet Training Part 2.

NDSC board member Dr. Nicole Baumer, Sherry Tsai, CPNP, and Boston Children’s Hospital Down Syndrome Program help explain the best tactics to making potty training successful. Toilet-training-guide

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