toilet training

[Guest guest]

I am new to this group and I have a question I was hoping someone

could help me with. I am currently working with a 5 year old boy with

autism. He is time toilet trainined and will stay dry if prompted by

myself or his parents. Very rarely has he ever just walked into the

bathroom by himself. He has some verbal language paired with the use

of picture point book. I have tried to shape some of his verbal

language into requests for the bathroom. We have put pictures of

bathroom all around his house to help ellicit requests, but we have

not had any luck. If he has an accident it doesn't seem to bother

him. I only see him 1 hour a month so it's difficult for me to be

very hands on in the implementation of anything. I am looking to see

if anyone has any ideas I can give to this family to help teach this

young boy to initiate using the bathroom. He doesn't really have any

big reinforcing items. He has a lot of little things that he likes,

otherwise I would have isolated a reinforcer just for initiation. Any

advice would be greatly appectiated.

Thanks.