autism

[starshaker]

was just speaking to my mum today and she said there is a wee boy with autism at my sisters school. she said he speaks with an american accent and its seeminly quite common. just wanderedif any1 has any experience of this or know why

Never heard of that before unless he's copying it from the TV/DVDs. Scripting (as its called) is quite common in ASD. Lots of kids with ASD repeat word for word and in the very voices what they have seen on TV/DVD. I always joked, when people were saying that their kids have a problem with Scripting, "yes, mine comes down in the morning and says Freeze muthaf*cka, you're gong dahn"..... its usually Disney etc

Ds does this, not in an American accent, but to adverts, DVD's etc. Never knew there was a name for it.

Davros,that's hilarious!

I've worked with a lot of children who have acquired different accents and intonation.
Happens when people have strokes sometimes. Called (unimaginatively)'foreign accent syndrome'.

There are some really bizarre accounts.Working class middle aged women from Barnsley waking up one morning and starting to speak like the girl from Ipanema and suchlike!

ha ha i used to do this when i was a kid and when im telling a story i always mimic the persons accent or the way they stand.

ive always thought this normal and wondered why over the years people have laughed at me, well now i know

my BIL is australian by the way so i,ll have to be careful wont i !

When ds1 eventually started to talk he used to copy accents and intonation perfectly. After a few months his day-to-day accent was Scottish. I think he picked it up from Cbeebies because at the time there were quite a few Scottish programmes on. We live nowhere near Scotland and have no connection to Scotland.

These days ds1 (now 5) has an accent that is often described as "posh". I'm as common as muck and we live in a fairly rough area. Apparently being well-spoken is somehow related to AS/ASD.

Ds2 mimics ds1's voice perfectly. He copies ds1's phrases and intonation so well that unless I'm looking at them I often can't tell which boy has just spoken.

yep my three do this they all talk very posh and its mostly tv speak, they do accents too, my girls used to do cooking at school with a lady from liverpool, i always knew when they had had her cos they talked of coooooking! and looooking at books! there french teacher says there spoken french is fantastic that it all down to tots tv!

yes...tom has been commented on about his accent...

he's doing spanish at secondary...and last night i tested him on his words....and i was absolutely gobsmacked at the accent he 'pulled out of nowhere'!!! Truly amazed me that he could sound so spanish...so quickly!!!

My ds often speaks with an American accent and I thought it must just be copying from the telly or the radio.

He was always called posh in his first year at school and we live in Luton ffs!!!!

PMSL at Davros's ds - Disney certainly are going down hill aren't they - muthaf*cka...fantastic!

Well, that story's not true of course, my DS can't say anything so I just thought it was a good response when parents complained about their child scripting, rather shows the sort of fare we watch at home

My ds3 is well spoken with a hint of Yorkshire[from one of his teachers].

Davros

Ds4 is the phrase king in my house though, his current favourites are "Welcome to the Dumbo ride" etc from Disney and "Cashier No 1" etc from the post Office

I work with a lad that does this!
He also speaks french with a scottish accent(french teacher was scottish!)