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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thank you for the replies.  She was diagnosed by dev ped who said the stool withholding goes along with diagnosis and sensory issues and advised OT.  OT is no help - she is really young and inexperienced but DD loves her so I am sticking with her so far.  I didn't even know about ABA so I could not ask dev ped about it.  Also, other than PEP, OT and Speech Therapy, there were no other recs.  No one including pediatrician really addresses the encopresis/inability or lack of desire to potty train for past 2 years - it's just been chalked up to her diagnosis of ASD.  The weird thing is that she does not have anything I can bribe her with to even sit on the potty - I'm not sure she really understands bribes - like you get this if you do this - she can't make that connection?  Maybe she is more moderate than mild on the spectrum or just intellectually more behind. Last year at school, they just changed her diapers, but this year I asked them to attempt to potty train so they said they put her on the toilet - which was great news and I thought I could do that at home but to no avail.  I guess I have to figure out how to get that into her routine and convince her to go.  Right now if she has to use the bathroom, she just hides somewhere but never the bathroom!  She also doesn't care if she walks around in a wet or soiled pull-up/diaper; I have to wrestle her down to change her, and we do this in the bathroom and flush the poop down the toilet so she can make the connection - she does like flushing the toilet so that's not the problem... from what I see, it's her desire to hold onto her stool and not fully go (she hides and tries to hold poop in) - which she can do in a diaper/pull-up (or underwear) but not if she is sitting on the toilet.  I'm not sure how to break this desire not to poop!  It seems so unnatural.  Her siblings have tried to help and be good examples, but she is not interested/ignores us/them when we talk about the issue.  Sorry for the long post.  I would love to hear from anyone who has gone through this and how it eventually was treated.[/quote]

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