I'm just trying to figure out if this is normal or something I need to address with DD1's therapists. On Monday when I picked her up from school, I was talking to her teacher and DD1 came running up and started talking in a very odd voice. She isn't moving her tongue and is keeping her mouth clenched so you can not understand what she is saying. That was the first time I had ever heard her talk that like that. She had been at home everyday for 2 weeks before Monday on winter break.
After questioning DH, he said that she had done it in the car a couple time during the break when they were alone. So it is Thursday morning now and the voice is becoming constant, I am repeating over and over asking her to switch to a normal voice, and she does. Today is her birthday, and this morning before school she was opening her presents, in the excitement of jumping up and down over her new doll, she kept switching back and forth, the way that she was doing it, lead me to believe that it wasn't something she controls all the time as to when she starts using it. She was lost in the moment of excitement but yet was talking in the voice. When I've questioned her before she says that the voice comes out when she is sad but actually I have never heard her use it when she is really sad or upset.
DD1 does have a lengthy history of significant anxiety that has lead to all kinds of other behaviors, insomnia, facial picking, etc...She isn't currently in therapy for the anxiety because she had been doing very well the last 6 months. She has SPD, and she does see a language therapist 5 days a week for her severe dyslexia but speech isn't her specialty, more phonics and the written word. Some of DD1's speech has been slow to come, but she is understandable except when she does the voice.
So if you got through all of this, I am just trying to figure out if this is maybe a normal phase some kids go through or yet another thing that has popped up with her and we need to contact the all therapists.
After questioning DH, he said that she had done it in the car a couple time during the break when they were alone. So it is Thursday morning now and the voice is becoming constant, I am repeating over and over asking her to switch to a normal voice, and she does. Today is her birthday, and this morning before school she was opening her presents, in the excitement of jumping up and down over her new doll, she kept switching back and forth, the way that she was doing it, lead me to believe that it wasn't something she controls all the time as to when she starts using it. She was lost in the moment of excitement but yet was talking in the voice. When I've questioned her before she says that the voice comes out when she is sad but actually I have never heard her use it when she is really sad or upset.
DD1 does have a lengthy history of significant anxiety that has lead to all kinds of other behaviors, insomnia, facial picking, etc...She isn't currently in therapy for the anxiety because she had been doing very well the last 6 months. She has SPD, and she does see a language therapist 5 days a week for her severe dyslexia but speech isn't her specialty, more phonics and the written word. Some of DD1's speech has been slow to come, but she is understandable except when she does the voice.
So if you got through all of this, I am just trying to figure out if this is maybe a normal phase some kids go through or yet another thing that has popped up with her and we need to contact the all therapists.
