My 5 yo began his aggressive behavior last year. Though always a bit
aggressive, he began hurting my 8 yo daughter. I had been doing all
biomedical until the day when he shoved my daughter, made her slip and
she ended up with 8 stitches in her forehead....
My sons iron levels never seemed to affect his moods or behavior.
When they were low, the only thing I noticed were circles around his
eyes. No difference in behavior.
We tried so hard to work on the vitamin B deficiencies, but it didn't
make any difference either.
Now, we have him on Abilify and Trileptal. I am NOT an advocate of
meds, but I must say, life has been MUCH better on these meds.

As far as what did I do? Not much can be done. Punishment did not
work. He could have cared less. So I danced on eggshells most of
the time trying to keep the peace..... which became harder and harder
as he grew.
We did the behavior therapy (here in danville) and it did not help.
My son thought of this a play time and got nothing out of it.

However, I wish you luck in whatever route you choose, but that is
what we ended up having to do when the aggression got to the point
they wanted to hospitalize him....


--- In cuan-listserve@yahoogroups.com, "Kristina" <rath725@...> wrote:
>
> Hitting, pushing, kicking, name calling - you name it and Collin's
> doing it ALL THE TIME! We decided to have his blood work done again
> to see if we're missing something in that department.
>
> We found out that his iron level dropped to 20 - down from 36 - over
> the past month. Dr. Morton has increased Collin's daily doseage and
> has also recommended giving daily Alpha Omega-3 DHA supplements,
> which we started on Friday evening.
>
> The major thing Dr. Morton recommended is getting Collin into
> behavior counseling with a child psychologist. All of the
> psychologists at Carle's Champaign-Urbana campuses are booked until
> late July (sigh), but there is a psychologist at Carle's Mahomet
> clinic (Dr. Kathryn Fair) that had an opening on March 17th. She is
> not a child psychologist and doesn't have a tremendous amount of
> experience with children who have ASDs, but she said she'd be happy
> to meet with us/Collin and collaberatively work with the child
> psychologists at the Champaign-Urbana campuses to implement behavior
> counseling for Collin.
>
> Is this something any of you would do? Should we just wait it out
> until late July to ensure that he's seeing a psychologist that deals
> specifically with children? We booked the appointment with Dr. Fair
> for March 17th because we think something is better than nothing at
> this point, but I'm just a little unsure. Any advice or encouraging
> words would be nice ;o)
>
> Also, what do you do at home about the hitting, pushing and kicking?
> I mean, it's to the point that any interaction we have with him, or
> that he has with ANYONE, results in non-stop aggressive behavior.
> Even his early childhood teacher and morning preschool teacher have
> discussed with us how much more aggressive behavior he is
> displaying. Granted, he has only been in those classrooms for a few
> weeks (transitioning from a daycare center he'd been at for 2 years),
> so I know part of his aggressive behavior has to do with the
> transition. But I know there's something much more than that causing
> all of this (call it mother's intuition!).
>
> HELP!!!!!! (and thank you)
>
> Kristina Rath
>