Potty training 2.6 year old with speech delay

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Hi

We started introducing potty last week. Just asking her to sit on it 2/3 times and day and praising her if she did. Then yesterday 4 times during the day she went to potty herself and did a wee!

Anyway, I took that as a sign to start training properly today and its going great. No wee accidents yet and she just goes sit on it when she needs to - no promting from me. She has had one poo accident this morning but since done one on the potty.

My question really is how are we ever going to leave the house again??

She has very few words and its all well and good if she can take herself to potty here but how will we manage out and about?

Any advice or experiences welcome please

I toilet trained a 3.5 year old with speech delay. It's possible, just makes things more ahem interesting! As long as she has a reliable yes/no response, ask her regularly if she needs the toilet when out and about, and favour places where toilets are familiar and easily accessible to you both

Thanks TotalChaos - she will say yes but just ignores me if its no...and seeing as she is very good at ignoring me anyway it can be confusing

Think I may become a hermit..Do you just bring a potty around with you and use it wherever needed?

what I did - because I don't drive, I toilet trained gradually - i.e. for a couple of months nappies put on for bus journeys etc, off when in house, at nursery and once we had arrived at zoo/museum/soft play as far as possible (i.e. places where toilets were easily accessible). I never took a potty around at all, as DS preferred toilets by this age anyway.

watch out for physical signs - clutching bottom etc, as sign of urgently needing the toilet!