Unusuall behaviour

[gaynorthepainter]

I have a 2yr old grandson and he has many issues including the following: he will not eat any solid food at all everything has to be liquidised or he will vomit if theres a small lump in it. He wont attemp to eat and finger food not even chocolate he will vomit when it is put near his mouth. He has had a barium meal swallow and nothing abnormal was found. He is fed with a sick bowl to hand incase he vomits.
He does not talk at all he just makes noises and if he wants anything he will take you by the hand and take you to what he wants. He runs around making screeching noises.
He licks absolutely everything it doent matter what it is the telly anything.
He also self harms he will stand there pinching himself and crying but he wont stop. He also bangs his head on things when he gets anoyed if you tell him off for anything.

[gaynorthepainter]

Thanks for your advise I will most certainly speak to my daughter and ask her to ask the pediatrician to be referred to a  developmental specialist.

Thanks again
gaynorthepainter

[specialmom]

Hello,  I would say at this point you need to encourage your child to take this little one to a developmental specialist.  All kids develop at their own pace but there are things that would concern me here.  He sounds as if there is a delay with speech.  Eating issues go hand and hand with this as lots of motor control is involved in chewing and speaking.  Textures which are part of sensory integration can also cause great feeding difficulty with a child.  

As far as pinching and head banging, kids do have trouble handling frustration especially if there is a speech delay.  However, some kids also have low sensation of pain/ feeling ( again, sensory related) and do this to get any input they can to the nervous system.

So, I would most definately go to his pediatrician and ask for a developmental evaluation.  There are specialists who do this and occupational therapists as well.  A speech evaluation would be either included or its own evaluation.  They can do amazing things with early intervention and actually change the course of a child's life.  Good luck.