Door slamming | Autism PDD
Over and over! I know it's probably just a stimm, but none-the-less it's driving me insane!
She loved going up and down the stairs to their stage too:) Less noisy:P
Oh, yeah, I gotta a slammer, too.....any loud noise will do for her....crashing toys onto the flooe, broken dishes, tipping over chairs, throwing.....it's all good ( to her !! )
She has grown out of it some....over-correction helped ( you know....making her shut the door quitely and gently 5 times in a row after she slammed)
My MOM was a huge slammer of cabinets ... UGH!
My DS who is a sensory seeker is a major slammer/stomper! He makes the entire house shake, and he is only 4!
Our ds is a slammer as well, mainly cabinet doors. He has gotten a bit better about not doing it so long
ABCMOMMY
I do not have a slammer but i have one that all the doors need to be closed.. I feel trapped in my own house.. If he sees a door open he shuts it.. he will do this all day long.. My son did this opening and slamming door bit alot...I thought it would never end.A friend suggested a padded guard that is sold at Toys R Us..it sets on the top of the door and fits over it thus preventing the door from entirely shutting ...my local store did not have it in stock.So I took a towel and hung it over the top of the door and lightly pulled it down toward the top hinge opposite side of the knob.It would stay intact and free from his reach and prevent the door from slamming shut...this was great on closet ,hall or less frequented doors.I also installed inside locks on all my cabinets. He finally stopped this...It was replaced by programming television attempts and fascination with buttons.. I now have my television coming on at 3am....alarms...foreign subtitling ect..My son is the same way. He has to have all the cabinet doors shut in the kitchen or will let you know they are open until you shut them. We bought tot locks from home depot. They are magnets that lock the door. He can not open and close them anymore. They are not easy to instal but well worth it. re directing him to other things that make that particular noise is not easy. He is easing up on doors to bedrooms and closets but has taken a huge interest in the open garage doors! There is a sesame street toy that has doors they can open and shut. He loves it.
You will go crazy but from what everyone tells me on the message board that it does stop.
YES! We've experienced plenty of door slamming and fortunately that ended several months ago. We told my son constantly, "All done with door." He'd get sooo angry, but it was driving us nuts. Now he will open and close doors when he's bored, so we have to watch him closely. I agree that they might just need to get that auditory input (drums, pots, music) from something more acceptable! I had to remove his closet doors (the orginal late 70's sliding wooden doors) He would slide them for hours and hours. I walked in to his room and it was off the hindges and it almost hit him
. His dresser fell on him and thank God I heard a noise. He was ok, he was in the drawer but I read a child died that same week from a dresser falling. I removed his dresser, his lamp (took it apart), his crib, (chewed it and took it apart, almost lost a limb on it). My child is accident prone and can take every child proof thing apart in mins or work around it!!! Except the 4 foot metal gate by the stairs, he has aready tried climbing over it with stuffed animals. I put a deadbolt on his door to keep in his room at night. I know the lock sounds extreme but I have to protect him from hurting himself. He can open his bed room door 3 inches and closes it all night . He is 2 yr old.
amber ... that sounds like my NT son!
He is highly physical, a climber and stomper ... and his dresser fell on him about a month ago. Fortunately, it TERRIFIED him!
My son was a slammer, I think they usually do grow out of it. I also lock his door at night, too many mornings finding eaten bananas, peel and all, peanut butter smeared all over the place, digging in trash can, etc. His doc gave us the idea. I think they usually do grow out of the door thing. Doorknob covers keep him out of the bathroom and closets although we had to get new knobs for the covers to work. He loves throwing chairs, too. Redirecting has gotten increasingly harder as he's gotten older. For a kid with ADHD he can sure focus on certain things for long periods. Get him something else more appropriate to slam. Drums might do it. Or give him something loud to slam outside -- cymbals are good or even a pot and metal ladle. Ask the OT of sensory input ideas. Or get him used to listening to loud, percussive music on earphones. None or all of these ideas might work. Just keep trying options.Adam used to open and close doors a lot when he was younger. He used to flip light switches too. He has now graduated to slamming his bedroom door when he is angry at me..lol
When adam did the door and light switch thing I would take out a toy that he really liked and had not seen in a long time and re-direct him with it. It worked for a while anyway. He LOVED playdough and it has great sensory.
Karrie
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