This ASD Behavior Is Heart-Wrenching, And Can Seem Impossible To Manage — But This Teacher Found A Way

Logan is a boy with severe autism. He started self-injury behavior (SIB) when he was six years old — two months after his father was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Logan and his sister Tatum are both on the autism spectrum, and his aunt is their personal care assistant (PCA). She takes care of them every day, and as a film student, is aiming to educate the world on autism. The Autism Answer Special education teacher Julie Miller-Hays worked with Logan on reducing his self-injury behaviors for years. She got him to the point where he had to wear his helmet only minimally, substituting the helmet for a hat. She says that the SIB stems from some sort of trigger, and she believes that old behaviors can be rerouted. “The bottom line that I’ve seen — and they may say it’s sensory, they may say it’s this — is that at some time they got where their brain didn’t help them understand how to do things with their hands, with their mind, with their body. That then had
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