People with Autisim have a different tone of voice!

[lisad123isgoingcrazy]

According to DD1 she knows she is Autistic but not all her friends from group know they are. She told me the other day that all children with Autisim have a different tone to their voice than NT children. Was very intrested by this, as i onky notice the ASD childrens voices that are monotone.

I have noticed quite a few differences with the children going to my support group.
Some of them as you said have quite flat, monotonous tone (like me DS)
Others have a sing-song tone.
With others it is the volume which is too loud or too wispery.
Some of them speak in a 'posh' voice.

ooops 'whispery' meant to write.

DS1 alternates between flat monotone (when he's scripting or asking endless questions) and highly sing song at a pitch that only dogs can hear. He can talk fairly normally, too, if he's managing snippets of relaxed conversation.

What I do tend to notice is that he says words with the accent he learnt them in. We're northern. Very northern. Yet he says things like "barth" and "arnswer" because he probably learnt those words watching cbeebies! Phrases he's picked up at school are definitely said with a local accent!

My dd speaks like a BBC newsreader when the local accent is nothing like that.My ds, when he speaks, sound as though he is speaking to himself with lots of mmmms and oooos.

I used to work with a child who had a v strong American accent , family v northern!

I have a phone app about numbers, colours and shapes which speaks in a Hispanic / American accent and DS mimics it exactly. He sounds like Dora the Explorer

His voice is usually quite soft and sing-song except when he shrieks and then, well I wish I could say that only dogs could hear it, it's really distressingly high-pitched and sounds like fingernails down a blackboard. We get a lot of from passers by.

DS is going through a Peppa Pig stage- he says everything in a high pitch, faintly surprised tone just like Peppa.

Dd1 has a little proffesor (sp) voice, deffently different and sometimes flat.

Dd1 has an odd voice, like a little dolly but then she is only 4.

I was always picked on (by my brother) for my odd sounding voice (i beleive i am on the spectrum).

ds speaks very quietly (we're trying to teach him to shout atm) with a vaguely French accent 'grass'opper' it is very strange (cute but odd).

it just surprised me as I hadnt noticed anything different about these girls voices at all. But then DD1 is very smart

I love the accent thing.. Ds2 says most words like I do.. Sort of a dodgey BBC job.. However his dad ( who he sees regularly) is very posh Yorkshire .. So if ds has learnt a word from dad, it's said in posh Yorkshire.

We live in Somerset.. Where ds goes to school it's quite a strong accent, yet he hasn't picked it up at all, even though we moved I to the area five years ago.

Dd (NT) as soon as she started school she picked up the local accent... Which Dh loves as he's from the local area..
Ds1 (NT) mixes the accents as he sees fit.. But has also picked up a mildocal accent.

My Dd3 is just LOUD she has 2 volumes LOUD and EVEN LOUDER lol. Oh and if you try to get a word in she can crank it up even more.

My ds (7) has two volume levels, loud or louder. He alo speaks In a monotone, and apart from the first two or three words in a sentence, mumbles incoherently (still loudly!).

Lord knows how he managed to score a 3 in his KS1 reading!