Guest guest Posted January 18, 2004 Report Share Posted January 18, 2004 Trisha does a lot of growling too. The sad part is that it's contagious! I caught myself growling today when the step stool slide out from under me and I fell and scraped the whole front of my body. Sometimes you just got to growl! :-) Now to be serious, Trisha does growl but we have noticed that the more signs she learns and the more words she learns she growls less and less she growls, but when she can't express herself through signing or words, she goes back to growling. I have come to accept it as part of her learning vocabulary and as she learns new ways to communicate it will replace the growling. Bet you didn't know that growling had so many different meanings. LOL. .. Carol (Trisha's mom) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 2004 Report Share Posted January 18, 2004 My daughter Ariel growls sometimes too. You know I never really thought that it had anything to do with Autism. She loves animals and dinosaurs and things like that and I just thought that that was her way of showing displeasure. She has a good vocabulary and can tell me when something is displeasing her she doesnt have to growl. Ive always just told her to stop. Ariel was only officially diagnosed as being Autistic and they have been working on her feelings and social skills and since that time I havent really heard to much of the growling. Maybe our kids growl because they have a hard time understanding exactly what it is that they are feeling and the growling is just kind of like an automated response? Take Care Mom to Ariel MDS/Autism 9 years old and The Twins 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 2004 Report Share Posted January 18, 2004 In a message dated 1/18/2004 5:13:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, dtycer@... writes: I never thought growling was an autism or ds thing, I just thought it was communication from a VERY communicative non-verbal young man. I never though about the growling being an Autism or DS thing before today...LOL... Ariel is very verbal. ANd yet she growls too. Maybe this a question for the experts (LOL) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 2004 Report Share Posted January 18, 2004 Karrie growls a lot, also. She has decreased a little with the Risperdal, but still growls as her way of letting people know she's unhappy. She's normally very verbal...I think the growl just adds emphasis for her!! After all, even her cat understands the growl!!! Sue mom to Kate 14 and Karrie 7 w/ds and other issues Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 2004 Report Share Posted January 18, 2004 Hi All, Zeb growls when his demands aren't being met,he can't get his point across or he is not happy in a situation. It get everyones attention better than speech. Charlyne Mom to Zeb 11 DS/OCD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 2004 Report Share Posted January 18, 2004 , we ARE the experts! LOL!! Looks to me like growling is a sign of frustration or discontent. Sounds normal to ME! Donna, MontyMan's Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2004 Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 We have also noticed with Trisha the growling is usually related to frustration, discontent, etc. We also noticed that when she doesn't have words/signs to express herself she uses what I call babbling or gibberish but if you listen closely she used the same sound and pattern and eventually we learn what she is referring to. And just how many years did it take us to learn that? All her life so far. lol .. Carol (Trisha's mom) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2004 Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 Hi Everybody, Add to the list but its kinda of my fault for teaching him this to continue as I wanted him to express his emotions when I had figured out why he did this, he was angry. So I turned it around similar to play skills along with the signing of being mad and growl when he is angry. Then once he picked up, I tried the other emotions like happy, sad, etc. even with some play music. Yep, it worked as he likes to imitate/mimic when I catch him in a good mood. I'm still working with teaching the emotions now with visual strategies so that hopefully he could point at how he is feeling which of course requires extra time he needs to process his feelings and relate to them and this has helped decrease some hitting, shoving, kicking, etc. This is now, he tells me " leave me alone " these days than the growling. The growling helped with his speech I might say, sounds terrible, eh? Anything that works for communication is a joy to see when something helps him or just for me to understand and work around it so that others like school could also try to understand him. This is working for , good luck when y'all figure out why others growl. Hugs! Irma,15,Ds/ASD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2004 Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 Hi Laurie, Oh yes, the " daddy's fault " . Can totally relate, you're not alone on this. How I have numerous stories on this. would learn or get away alot with his dad. How funny he growls at people at Wal-Mart, because this brought me memories when Lion King first came out and when one of my nephews was a toddler I had him seated on the cart I would growl at him and said " I'm a lion " . Then he growled back and repeated the same thing. My sister caught me as he was also growling at the other customers and said " what are you teaching him? " Told her communication. Mic will probably out grow it once he replaces it with something new. Too cute on when Mic knows when to growl, though. Never underestimate him as he could learn to stop, just like on how you are teaching him with the whinning. Some icebreaker if the other people are not annoyed by it. By the time he is older you will already have solve this. Irma,15,Ds/ASD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2004 Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 Add Tristan to the growling angels. He has growled for as long as I can remember. I think he may be enjoyable for him just as his teeth grinding seem to be enjoyable to him. Of course, neither is very enjoyable for the rest of us, but what can we do. Just hoping and praying for some help on the 26th. HUGS...Colleen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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