My 8yr old son does the constant noise thing, but more in the morning when we're all waiting for his meds to kick in. I have found that plugging him into his mp3 player has helped a lot. He won't go get it and do it himself, but if I walk up and kiss him on the cheek while I plug them in his ears, he'll leave them in and we instantly have peace.

Another thing that sometimes works is sending him to his bedroom to 'jump it out'. We have a mini-trampoline in his bedroom that we pull out, I tell him to turn on his music and jump for one song and sing if he wants. Its usually enough to bring him down to his normal.

Hope this gives you a couple ideas to try... that's what its all about, trial and error!

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my 7 year old does this too to stimulate himself. Some suggestions that sometimes work: The louder he talks, the quieter I talk. He often follows my lead. The worst thing is to yell at him to quiet down.

Embrace his "passion"and excitement. What is the big deal with shrieking when you are happy? Maybe we should all shriek with excitement more often!

Video tape the shrieker so they can actually see how loud they are. They probably don't realize it even though you have told them a million times.

Think about her good characteristics of ADD rather than the "annoying" ones.

As you said, sometimes this is just the way she speaks. Some of us are loud and some of us are meek. Quit being annoyed with her natural personality and accept it.

Good Luck Eric

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