Baby head butting

[ThorsMistress]

Hey all

Posting here for traffic really.

I have a little boy who is 17 months. He doesn’t say many words yet but that’s not my concern. It might be relevant though.

If he’s angry or upset he will head butt the floor. Not hard enough to hurt himself but it’s still upsetting none the less. He probably does it a few times and then stops.

He also has to turn everything upside down. Cars are the main one. He will get them all out and turn each one upside down. He does it with other things too.

Do I need to speak to my health visitor? Or is this normal behaviour?

Absolutely you need to speak to an advisor and get a referral for an assessment right away....not because it is an emergency but because every day that goes by is one less day that he has to figure out the world..
I have 3DC with different SEN and I wish I'd started earlier with assessments instead of waiting until they began school. There were little signs that I saw, but didn't put them all together at the time and didn't know that there was therapy available for their young age.
The limited vocab is somewhat of a clue that his brain is wired differently than the AVERAGE 17 month old...not that this is a bad thing, he just learns differently than most children. I used to volunteer in my DC classroom to help with the slow readers...huh! One little guy wasn't a slow reader, as I suddenly found out one day. I discovered he could read perfectly fine if the words were upside down! So, get him assessed to find out what brilliant strategies there are for him to navigate the world so he can stop banging his head in frustration. Good luck