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Expert: Michelle Fattig - 2/21/2008


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I work with several students with asperger syndrome.  Occassionally, they speak with too loud of a voice.  I've used visual cards that say too loud and quieter please but these cues seem to only help momentarily.  Do you have any suggestions? Have you ever tried using a whisper phone (it is a headset that attaches to the ear and has a mouth piece that they speak in?

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A couple of good websites that may be of help:

http://www.maapservices.org/MAAP_Sub_Find_It_-_Publications_Rosalyn_Lord_Article...

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZwQGsuCNMPYC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=talking+too+...

http://www.autismspeaks.org/community/ownwords/intheirownwords_aspergers.php

http://books.google.com/books?id=GMqQCtICFNwC&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq=talking+too+...

I hope these are of help.  I wish that I did know what a good intervention might be.... our daughter does not seem to have a volume control!  Let me know if there is anything else that I can provide.

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Michelle Fattig

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I can answer questions about educational testing, autism, Asperger's Syndrome, ADD/ADHD, Special Education, IEP, Learning Disabilities, Sensory Processing, Parent Advocacy, Response to Intervention, living and parenting with disabilities, parent rights in special education, school psychology, and more. I cannot provide a medical diagnosis.

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I am a school psychologist, medical technologist, author of the Annie Books series: Experience Aspeger's Syndrome and Attention Deficits Through the Eyes of a Child, RTI facilitator, ILCD facilitator, parent advocate, presenter, and researcher. My children and I have Asperger's, ADD/ADHD, and learning disabilities.

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National Association of School Pyschologists, American Medical Technologists, Learning Disabilities Association of Nebraska

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Ed.S. in School Psychology, doctoral studies in SPED Law, SPED Systems Enhancement Leadership, and doctoral candidate Education Leadership. MT(AMT) and MLT(ASCP)

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