[Willow678]

My grandson is 16 and has been diagnosed with ADHD for many years. He was having real problems at school so we made the decision for me to homeschool him. He has always been prone to make noises (as very young child would run for extended periods making car noises) that calmed down once he started school and was put on medication. We have taken him off his meds since homeschooling (he is now on honor roll and adapting great to ECOT) but I have noticed he has been using all these weird voices almost constantly (like Kermit the frog, a growling type voice and a high pitched squeaky voice are his top 3). Is this something typically seen with ADHD or are we seeing something else developing here?

[lowinmood]

maybe drama classes could help him, let him use his energy productively, so that you don't have a constant battle of trying to suppress it, perhaps?

[avlady]

that sounds like a good idea lowinmood!!! i have a brother that drove me nuts with his loud pitched voice and he ended up joining the coast guard where it would be useful. he is retiring this year after 20 years in it.

[NoId]

My grandmother uses undulationed voices a lot. He could be copying you. You must be a very nice person. But it sounds like he is bored. The voices are what you do if you have ADD but if he is doing it constantly then I'd assume he is bored. Not just bored but probably experiencing the brainwaves that come from not taking the dextroamphetamine and that is what he does to avoid that experience or bring himself back from it. What kind of medication was he on?

[lowinmood]

it might be because his style of learning is different, he might be an auditory learner, I wonder if you could introduce videos into his learning or music or something?

[junkDNA]

reminds me of autism spectrum