my daughter has severe learning disability soon to be 6
she has speech , physio , ot . incontinence nurse, eyes, and paeditricans ivolved
but where im struggling is getting advice on how to control her behaviour
she smack herself in face and other places
and trys to blame other people and some times she blames herself
i know its getting worse
paediatricains said in sept that they will test her for dypsraxia but nothing happend yet
anyone got any advice how to deal with her hitting herself

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mum of 2

My daughter hits herself too especially on the head, she would also bang it off walls when she is frustrated about something, so i'll be watching this thread to get some advice to, cause i don't know what to do either.

(11-15-2010 12:35 PM)slharris28 Wrote:  My daughter hits herself too especially on the head, she would also bang it off walls when she is frustrated about something, so i'll be watching this thread to get some advice to, cause i don't know what to do either.

well its starting to become more often and she smacks herself in stomach
we tell her to stop it apart from that
we dont know what else to do about it
its horrible to se her do that to her self

i might be getting referd back to kites behaviour programme again
to control her behavior
and also they are thinking of refering her to
cahms
does any one know what does cahms do
ive heard its child mental health

hi everyone ive been really busy so have not been on for a while. My son use to hit himself quite a lot on 1 occassion he hit himself so hard in front of our health vistor he cut his mouth open and got a nose bleed. the health vistor was horrifyed and we got a referal to Cahms. but my son also had other problems as well. Camhs worked with our son for several years durring this time he was put on Risprodone and was taught that it was silly to hurt himself, so then he started to hurt other people eventually he got use to punching his pillow and we learnt when to withdraw our son before his behaviour became out of control. He is 15 now and can almost control his temper he no longer has risprodone but has the support of a special needs school. and we have learnt when our son needs space and our son has learnt to notice when he is getting anxious. Im affraid there was no quick cure but he got there in the end.