Toilet Training Guidelines: Clinicians-The Role of the Clinician in Toilet Training.

Clinicians can help reinforce the positive developmental aspects of toilet training by supporting, educating, and encouraging parents and their child. To begin the process, it is important for the clinician to understand the child’s developmental issues critical to his or her mastery and to understand parents’ perspectives on how and when to toilet train. Clinicians also can encourage toilet training for chronically ill and developmentally delayed children, because these children should not be deprived of this developmental achievement when ready.