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As the grandparent of a child who has Sensory Processing Disorder, I can think of a few reasons. Generally, self-harm of young children rises from frustration. That's the easy part. The hard part is trying to determine what is causing the frustration and whatever is causing the child to strike himself.Children with Sensory Processing Disorder can appear at times to be displaying the worst temper tantrum anyone has ever seen. My grandchild displays it most by constant rocking or repetitive movement. She will rock in a chair or on her bed for hours. What she is doing is trying to process an overload of stimuli that her senses are taking in, but her brain cannot deal with. At times it can look like full blown panic. There is little that can be done to help her. The normal instinct is to want to pick her up and try to physically comfort her, but this will only exacerbate the issue; it adds more stimuli to her already overloaded system.What we have found that can work is to let her rock and talk to her. Give her an anchor on which she can focus. We have special weighted blankets to drape on her that act like insulators. The key is to make her world very small when she is building to an episode, and keep her safe. When she pulls at her hair, or claws at her face, or hits herself, we talk calmly to her and we had to physically stop her at first, now only telling her to stop is sufficient.It is a world of tears and crying, and heartbreak knowing there is almost nothing we can do but to wait and see if she grows out of it. Happily, she has developed some skills herself in dealing with the problem. She four years old now, and loves her tablet and games. When she is feeling overwhelmed, she can retreat into an electronic world where she has control and shut out the outside for a short time.Be patient, don't let him harm himself, and research Sensor Processing Disorder and Autism like disorders. Make no mistake, SPD is not Autism, but it is Autism-like, with the exception of the social disconnect. Try what you can, discard what doesn't work.
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