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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A potty whisperer.[/quote]

Special ed preschool teacher  here. I've helped potty train lots of difficult to train kids. I've fantasized about starting such a business, but I don't really know where to start. Is this a thing for which there is interest?[/quote]

I am the person who tried a professional potty trainer and said it was useless and creepy. You would be putting yourself at so much risk. If you are looking to be a consultant that's one thing, but do not go to a person's house and take over. A stranger other than a doctor has no business telling a child to take off their pants and sit on a toilet let alone withholding food and other things until they do. We could have filed a report against this person with CPS. The only thing that held me back was they did help a few people who's kids had more severe forms of autism and I was there the whole time. I just kept wanting to believe it would work, but once hours and hours past  and hundreds and hundreds of dollars were lost, the professional trainer started withholding food and that's when I told her off and asked her to leave. I did spread the word about our negative experience.

There are hospital day programs for autism which offer this as a part of the program, but you have medical staff there and witnesses to protect them liability wise and to hopefully make sure if the trainer gets desperate they don't resort to potentially abusive tactics.[/quote]

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