What is Echolalia? | Echolalia in Children with Autism

Dr. Mary Barbera discusses echolalia, specifically, what is echolalia? She’ll also cover what can be done about echolalia in children with autism, and how echolalia can have its benefits.
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A while back, I did a video blog on delayed echolalia. This time, I’m talking about immediate echolalia. When a child is repeating words or questions, this is known as #echolalia. While autism and repeating phrases are common, I still get many questions from confused parents about “why is my child repeating words,” and “what can I do about echolalia?” In today’s video blog, I’m covering autism echolalia signs, and two steps you can take to resolve autism echolalic speech.

If your client(s) or child echoes words, they may have echolalia. But it’s important to remember that if a child does have echolalia, then it’s not all doom and gloom. At least, the child is talking, and most of the time their pronunciation and articulation is good as well. What we need to try and do is direct that echolalia to become more functional, conversational, and use it to increase language.

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I'm Dr. Mary Barbera and I have been helping parents and professionals for more than two decades ago when my first-born son, Lucas, was diagnosed with a speech delay at 2 and then with autism at age 3. Since then, I became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Host of the Turn Autism Around podcast (with more than 1.7 million downloads), and best-selling author of two books (including my newest book Turn Autism Around: An Action Guide for Parents of Young Children with Early Signs of Autism).

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