Why do children with severe autism exhibit such odd, repetitive behavior?
Some people believe that children who bang their heads repeatedly or continually move their body around do not have a sense of their body and that these movements are an attempt to experience their body. Those who constantly cry or scream may do so because they are unable to integrate the sensory input around them and are trying to screen it out with those noises. Some believe that it is because of difficulty processing stimuli from outside themselves that they try to close themselves to the outside world. Many of the treatments for autism are attempts to counteract this and to connect them with the outside world. It is crucial to deal with these behaviors as a young age and it s very possible to reduce or eliminate them. This reduction can have a major impact on family life.