Achieving Optimal Toilet Positioning for People with Disabilities

For a child with multiple physical challenges, toileting has often been regarded as a nuisance, an interruption, an added burden. New thinking about health and disability, however, has recast toileting as a critical intervention and an opportunity to teach meaningful skills. These skills, happily, are within reach for nearly every child. Provided with the right environmental modifi cations and positioning aids, most children can improve toileting skills to experience increased community participation and independence levels.