Lynden Report post Posted July 9, 2007 Logan self harms by headbanging - he's done this for a long time now, as long as I can remember. He has different ways of headbanging. He'll headbang to get to sleep, he'll headbang in frustration, and he'll headbang when having a meltdown. We stop the latter two, because he does really whack himself. When he's headbanging to get to sleep though, it sounds loud, but he has a wooden toddler bed. It obviously doesn't hurt him because he doesn't cry like he does in the other two instances but I wonder if the repetitive banging can cause some damage and if its something we should be trying to stop? (we have tried various things but he'll try and move things to get to a hard surface). Lynne x Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jlp Report post Posted July 10, 2007 Hi Lynden I'm not too experienced in headbanging in 3 yr olds but my son did this probably until approaching 2. He'd do it a lot and on hard surfaces like pavements. I was always given the standard advice from the HV as we didn't know G had autism at this time. Basically ignore the behaviour and he'll not really hurt himself! To be honest I wouldn't trust this advice now knowing that the child was autistic, it's a whole different ball game I feel and I was certain that my G did do it hard enough to hurt himself - is there anywhere you can approach for speciallist advice by people who know about asds? The hospital or an autism outreach worker? Sorry I'm not much help! G did outgrow this behaviour but still has very challenging behaviour in other ways. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
