My son talks in lots of strange voices,all the time ,I am always saying ,in your own voice please,when he asks for things ect,one voice sounds like a troll,another a baby,and another i cant describe.
anyone know why?,I remember reading this as one of the signs of Autism, I think.
Linda
hi
i think mosyt autistic children and adults do this
lucas does it a lot with differant accents
it may be the way it makes his throat tickle when he does certain growls
my advice would be
whe he uses the not nice voice say
im not speaking to troll voice
wait for him to consider which voice he will use
if its a nice voice say
nice voice i will speak to you
it works with lucas#shell xx
You have brought back a memory, that I have forgotten about. My son used to do this a lot when he was younger. I don't think we really did anything about it, because we had bigger fish to fry at the time with behavior problems. He has pretty much stopped this on his own, or maybe School helped. I don't know for sure, but he doesn't do it anymore. I think spectrummum suggestion is a good one. He does use a different accent still, but not very often. usually it's delayed ecolalia from a movie he has seen. He will repeat the dialog using a accent.
My 9-yr-old ASD son does this, too. He mimics voices he hears on TV and talks with these voices. I play dumb sometimes, and pretend I can't understand him when he talks like that. Sometimes I'm not playing & really can't understand him. He gets frustrated at not getting his needs met & switches back to his normal voice, which isn't always an improvement as he talks very fast when he's excited/upset.
I think it is because ASD kids don't "get" the give-and-take aspect of conversation, or they think we can understand them because they understand themselves.