Quote Originally Posted by monkeys View Post
How about using pictures to help him communicate? You can start with photos, then move to hand drawn or computer drawn images. You can use these to help him request items or activities including using the bathroom. I would take this boy to the bathroom every hour at the most. He seems to have some control and taking him to the bathroom every 10 minutes is too much on the both of you.
Like I said he is disengaged from the whole thing. I have picture cues but he doesn't use them. He does talk and quite a lot sometimes, just verbalizing his needs is an obstacle sometimes although there has been definite improvement there. I have potties so I don't need to leave the room fortunately. If I try to engage him in anything specific he struggles to stay fixed in me or the subject. I've tried giving him something to manipulate and that doesn't seem to help. He can make eye contact, but it is short lived and when I ask him something, his response will often be non related.