High-Pitched Voice | ADHD Information

Hi Leslie, I was thinking of you today. I notice that my son's voice is high pitched when he is excited and over stimulated and it drives my husband nuts!

We actually tell him so that he is aware of it. It's funny you mention speech therapy because my son receives speech at school along with his OT. Both have helped in so many ways.

Take care!

Well...I guess there's always puberty!  

Too funny!!!

Yeah I hear we're in for an exciting time again with meds once that sets in!

Hi Bethann,

He takes Focalin which seems to work very well for his hyperactivity/impulsiveness.  He still has the high-pitched voice most of the time though. 

 

Thanks to all for your responses.

I have a follow-up appointment with the ENT regarding another matter and I think I'll ask him if he has any opinion about the voice.  Plus, I think I'll ask the pediatrician, as well as a speech therapist acquaintance of mine.  If I get any helpful advice, I'll be sure to pass it along.

Leslie

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I can also relate to this. My ds also has a high pitched voice: Sometimes I can't help but call his attention when he is playing with friends. He gets extremely angry at what I tell him, but tries to help with his voice; however, this effort only lasts for a few seconds, then he goes back to old tone of voice.

I understand that this is  a typical characteristic of some adhders.  My ds attends social skills therapy, I assume this would help in some way, since this high pitch tone does not help socially.

Additionally, he is starting a new medication today, so I am obseving him closely to see what changes I see. I hope it helps with this issue, and with some others.

I could have written this myself. My Ds is 6 also and his voice generally gets ear drum piecing like this later in the evening as his meds wear off and/or he is really excited. It drives me wild! Gives me a headache and I can't even hear myself talk. When I mention it too him he just blows me off and keeps on. I wish I had the answer to this because it really is annoying not just to me, but his friends and family members, too. You can see them cringe and go to cover their ears sometimes.

My 6 year old son, who is very hyperactive, often uses an extremely high-pitched voice.  I mean, it's way up there.  The more excited he is, the more high-pitched the voice.  I've noticed he sometimes uses this pitch even when he's not hyper. 

It is so high that I often can't understand him.  I know he is able to speak with a lower pitch because when I ask him to lower it, he does so, but it lasts like three seconds. 

I hate to say it, but I'm embarrassed about it when in public places. 

Thankfully, I'm not prone to headaches, because I could imagine it bringing on the worst of migraines. 

I asked the psychologist about it and he said that ds will probably adjust as he becomes more aware of how his peers speak and will have a desire to do the same.  If ds doesn't become aware fairly soon, I'm afraid he may begin to get teased about it. 

I wonder if speech therapy would be of help.  He's had hearing assessments that have checked out fine.

Does anyone else have a child with this situation?

Leslie

Hi squirrelgirl, is your son on medication?

I was just wondering if he was because that would obviously slow the hyperactivity down and would probably lower that high pitched voice. I too have an adhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhd'er, but medicine has really helped him.

He also is easily overstimulated so an OT at school helps him in that department. He is now 9, almost 10 and has had an OT since he was in kindergarten. He really isn't the hyper boy he used to be, however, some mornings can be tricky waiting for the meds. to take affect.