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Echolalia is the repetition of vocalizations made by another person. Echolalia is present in autism, Tourette syndrome, aphasia, Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, developmental disability, schizophrenia and, occasionally, other forms of psychopathology. When done involuntarily, it is considered a tic. The word "echolalia" is derived from the Greek meaning "echo" or "to repeat", and meaning "babbling, meaningless talk" . Immediate echolalia is when a word or phrase is immediately repeated. In some autistic...


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I agree totally with what Speechy wrote.

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Can people with developmental disabilities who are very verbal have echolalia?
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  • Echolalia: Noisy w/Fickle? OPH with Unreliable? What is it? - 9 replies

    Greetings, all! What would you consider (in GURPS terms, that is) echolalia? I was primarily considering very delayed echolalia that occurs with no 100% reliability (e.g. when recalling embarassing

    Jul 20, 2008

  • encreased echolalia with MB12 shots ??? - 5 replies

    " , but I (and also teachers who don't know that my son is getting MB12) noticed increase in echolalia. I our case this is not a good thing ... my son is verbal and we had echolalia when he was 3-4 years old. Now

    Oct 15, 2005

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    my child has echolalia. he just tries to repeat what we say. earlier he could repeat a whole poem (echolalia) qualify as words on ATEC Score how do galvanize this into meaningful speech and make

    Oct 27, 2008

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