Toilet Training for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter home routines, treatment sessions, interdisciplinary consultation, and health-related skill support. In Toilet Training for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, for this course, the practical stakes show up in safe, humane intervention that respects health variables and daily-life feasibility, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Illinois Association of Behavior Analysis
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →Toilet training is a widely conducted but often understudied area in behavior analysis. Azrin & Foxx (1971) is the seminal article on toilet training in our field. While they set the groundwork for a behavioral approach to toilet training for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, we have decades of research since that has refined our approach to toilet training. Current behavior analytic toilet training focuses on reinforcement-based procedures, minimizing the use of intensive or punishment-based procedures (e.g., Greer et al., 2016; Perez et al., 2020) which aligns more closely with our ethical standards as behavior analysts (code 2.15, BACB, 2020). This presentation will focus on past toilet-training procedures, current trends and practices, data collection methods, and future directions that researchers and practitioners should consider.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 3 | General |
| COA | 0 | — |
All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.