Any tips how to stop a child who likes to scream constantly

[sammy90]

My 2yo constantly screams when she's happy or sad or normal. I thinks it's just a way of form of communication as her words are limited,but it's constant and loud as she's half deaf. Please help thanks

My little girl is just the same, she's an excellent talker but happy or really sad she squeals/screams so loudly!

I spend a lot of time saying don't scream with little long lasting effect..she thinks whispering is a great game so that works for a while

Food bribery works in desperate situations but I've decided she is just a squealer and I sort of don't notice it so much!

I don't know if this will help. My dd went through a screaming stage at about 2.5. I told her she can only scream if she went into my or her bedroom. It took the tension out when she was doing it, I'd stop her and tell her in a smily way that it's fine to scream but only in a bedroom. She'd go off, scream for a minute or 2 and then come out happy.

Ear plugs. Seriously. That's how I coped with a screaming DS2 at mealtimes.

Have you contacted NDCS, it's likely related to her deafness and may be a symptom of hypersensitivity.

Thanks everyone for your replies. I do the whisper game with her but it doesn't last for 2minutes. Sometimes I put her in her bedroom until she has calmed down and play in there. I also believe it has something to do with her deafness to. Thanks

It's probably linked to her hearing impairment. She may be using it for communication or just that she likes the sensation.
Does she have speech therapy or support from the hearing impaired service. They will have lots of stratagies to use. Eg giving her times when she can scream, Modelling other forms of communication. Setting up reward charts for when she communicates in a more appropriate way. There are numerous stratagies and you could do with support analysing the reason she does it, which stratagy to try and implementing it.

She won't understand a reward chart yet unfortunately otherwise I would love to use that idea. She will be see her speech therapist for the second time next week. I do believe it's a form of her communicating,thanks for the comment