Any ideas how to stop ds throwing

[Kurly]

Ds constantly throws anything he can get his hands on. Anyone got any ideas to stop him?

Have tried introducing things that it is OK to throw and giving him them when he throws anything else, made no difference. Now just constantly saying stop and physically stoping him.

Any ideas?

On the positive side he can throw really well.

my ds does this and has no coordination so everything goes everywhere and hes strong so usually rather big things, i have no advice im afraid but watching with interest!!

hi, my 9yo does this and has done from being able to pick things up. I have no advice sorry as we have tried numerous ways to stop this to no avail. This is one of his many behavioural problems and could have something to do with his sensory issues. He's very tactile defensive so has never been able to touch things for very long if at all. Throwing in this case could be a way of communicating this. He also likes to see things break and hear the noise it makes so again other reasons as to why he does this. However what I am afraid to say is I was told at 4ish if we don't stop this now it will be with him for life!! So sorry guys for the negative post lol.
I think you just need to try and work out why and put things in it's place to ombat this.
As for throwing really well we tried to give him something to throw into if he felt the need. However his sld means he doesn't get the where, how and when etc.
HTH x

Thats interesting devientenigma ds doesn't hold onto things for very long. Had put it down to poor attention skills but he does do what I think are alot of sensory type things like humming, running and lying on floor.

He has speech and lang delay so its difficult to work out why he does things.

This afternoon he hit his cousin and older brother with stones.

a head of an autistic school, just took someone i know (severly autistic) by the hand and with her hands over his placed the item back. everytime he throw again took hands and replaced items, he gave up in the end.

hi, takemesomwheresunny. We done this with my son for about a year......didn't work.
1 2 1 was needed for all the times he threw, usually one after another, just to keep consistency. Then there's the items that you don't see that have been thrown.
Just out of interest my son also hides things or puts them in the bin, realising the latter too late lol

DS does this, we have introduced basketball with him and since then it has been lots less. He now only does this to get our attention, unfortunately he ends up getting it when he is throwing something valuable or dangerous. By the way he is now very good at basketball and it seems to have reduced his need for throwing.