the etiology and management
2006-09-03 00:00:04 · 20 answers · asked by sweet periwinkle 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Often children will stim and they won't know why they do, it just feels natural and the words don't exist to describe it. As adults, Autists do manage to find words but they are not strong enough to reflect the reality. Because of this, such behaviour is often mistaken for OCD or an emotional problem.
I am guessing, that when she bangs her head she closes her eyes. Head banging is typically associated with noise, not loud noise in particular, but disordered noise. If you were to play two CDs together that were not syncronised, it would create disordered noise.
Complicated but ordered music like Classical often helps this, but it's best if it's relaxing and not the mental warblings of Beehtoven. Enya is good.
A classroom or a lunchroom full of kids would be very disordered unless a listener can generalise the sound into a single sound channel, making it into white noise. This is done physically by closing your eyes and knocking your head against something to a rythym.
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2006-09-10 14:57:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Autism is when a child does not understand the outside life, they just do not get it. They often make Little dens or circles with play bricks and sit in the circles as their safety zone as they understand what is happening in their space. When a child faces the wall it is because he/she is getting stressed by the situation and feels they do not understand what is happening. This can even happen at a very quiet part of the day when nothing has happened, it is because they have to gain some control and understanding. The head banging is a frustration and control gaining exercises. My friend has made a fixed safe place for her son with cushions and he often watches television from there and goes there when visitors turn up as he is at ease there and understands his surroundings. When a child is head banging, saying not to do it will not help, but making a safe place does, even if it is turning an armchair around to face a wall and putting them in it it will be a calm place.
2006-09-03 07:38:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Different reasons. Self-stimulation, frustration. That's the head banging. Facing the wall is better than making eye contact and they think the problem has gone away. I have an autistic son. Headbanging is a problem, facing the wall and just in general, anything that would cause us pain, they do. Biting his hands, wrings his fingers, pinching his legs, etc. My son happens to like AC/DC. Lots of stimulation there!
2006-09-03 07:09:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mother had an autistic girl in her DayCare. Her name was Melissa. Melissa banged her head when she was upset or when asked to do things that bothered her. She didn't like eye contact so facing the wall helped ensure she wouldn't have to. As many know , autism is a language/communication barrier but don't for one second think they aren't smart. Many autistic people are genuises.
2006-09-09 22:00:59 · answer #4 · answered by Zoey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just a learned behavior for temporary control of their mind processes. This behavior becomes repetitive and more violent as it becomes an outlet for emotion, usually frustration.
Everything is frustrating for an autistic person, and such behaviors become very repetitive.
To manage it, children with the disorder need to be managed, encouraged, an talked out of the frustration.
2006-09-10 17:39:22 · answer #5 · answered by mickjam 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably from total frustration...and stress...that is usually the reason children bang their heads...though not sure in the case of autistic children...but not being able to communicate would be very frustrating
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2006-09-10 17:01:05 · answer #7 · answered by franslaimbock 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They stay on their own and don't know how to communicate and be heard.
Some people write, sing... some hurt themselves as they have no other way to show their feelings. Some do it to get others attentions, some just because they don't know any other way to deal with their feelings.
Those people don't stay with others and it's important to have a way to release your emotions. There are many ways, good and bad, sometimes you don't know what's good.
I guess they want to be heard and cared for. They keep everything inside for a while and then it explodes and appears on the outside by doing acts like that.
2006-09-11 03:17:46 · answer #8 · answered by BleedingAngelSecretWounds 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a way of dealing with stress. Autistic children often aren't equipped to deal with stress and head banging is a coping mechanism.
P.S. to Freespirit-They aren't doing it to hurt you. They might not even be thinking about you when they do it.
2006-09-03 12:47:21 · answer #9 · answered by tkron31 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't aware that is happens with autistic children only. I have a granddaughter who is quite intelligent(6 yr.old now), who banged her head quite violently on her crib, floor and walls. Peditrician said she would not hurt herself and not to overreact, she one day just stopped...so do only children with autisim behave this way or their others?
2006-09-10 20:45:21 · answer #10 · answered by tamara.knsley@sbcglobal.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋