Parent workshop to tackle toilet training for special needs child

District 15 Student Services is sponsoring a toilet training workshop for parents of special needs students on Wednesday, Jan. 25, from 6-8 p.m. at John G. Conyers Learning Academy, 2800 Central Road, Rolling Meadows.

Titled “Toilet Training for the Child with Special Needs,” the workshop will be presented by Patti Boheme, a licensed clinical professional counselor and the executive vice president of the Little Friends Center for Autism. Her workshop will provide parents and professionals with strategies for developing a toilet training program for home and/or school settings. At the end of the workshop, participants will know how to implement a toileting program.

Specific topics that will be addressed include emotional, communicative, and developmental issues, rewards, toileting chairs, toileting readiness, urine training, bowel training, and overcoming some of the most difficult problems when toilet training children with developmental disabilities. The Little Friends Visual Toilet Training Program will also be reviewed.

To register, please call Genna Guttman, District 15 social worker, at (847) 963-3434 by Jan. 18. Please provide the names and ages of all children who will participate, as babysitting will be provided for this workshop.

-- Story submitted by Community Consolidated School District 15