does anyone elses child hum?(as in noise, not smell)

[drlove8]

dd4 does this.all the time, ...its driving me nuts! my other kids call her squeek ! any ideas on how to distract her ?

alfiemama dd4 has been under the peadis for just over a year now! she's on the waiting list for assesment by autism specialist team( called F.A.S.T ,up here in scotland).have been told that will take about 2 1/2 years .so should have a full DX by the time she goes to school!.dd4 also bangs toys on coffee table a lot! lol -need to find rubber one, as wooden one is full of little dents now .

magso, you think the noise/ hummig is vocal stims?. im a bit confused about stims- are they different for every child? or is it something that every asd child does?. dd4 does the spinning around and around and walking in circles, is that a stim?

• TC there is light at the end of the tunnel then? oh now, thats a thing to hope for! peace and quiet, at the moment, its a fond memorey from long ago! lol.

My 4 year old ds hums (he's obsessed with numbers and sometimes recites them too) my 14 year old neice 'drones' with her mouth open, and my 8 year old nephew 'beeps' and 'squeeks'. They all have autism.

you should have seen it at xmas lunch when we all got together. we don't listen to the queen's speech but wouldn't have heard a word anyways!

j

Drlove, I see stimming as a kind of self-hypnosis to shut out all the other sensory 'noise' and calm down - it's a coping mechanism people work out for themselves from very young. In which case some of the happier/contented/busy noises might be because they enjoy the sound or the feel of their mouth when they do it or just not remembering what's an appropriate noise for the situation.

My DS(AS) hums when he's eating, we call it the Happy Eater noise. Better than talking with his mouth open.

Oh and small toys, DS has to have something tiny in his hands - eg pair of lego man's legs, odd bits of plastic, Crazy Bones (I recommend these). His one-to-one at pre-school bribes him to co-operate by letting him choose one of her little space-themed toy collection. Bless her, she had it assembled by the end of his first week, she's brilliant.