Guest guest Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 What exactly is echolia? Is it where the child compies what is said? My son only says about 15 words, but he can sing almost every word to his " Tigger Movie " soundtrack. Is this considered echolia? He doesn't sing them after they are said, he sings with it at the same time? Just wondering! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 echolalia: The pathological, parrotlike, and apparently senseless repetition (echoing) of a word or phrase just spoken by another person. echolalia Parrot-like repetition of overheard words or fragments of speech. That's the definition in the medical dictionary. My son goes through spurts of echolalia. He actually has pretty good verbal skills emerging but still reverts back to echoing what we say from time to time. Right now, he's repeating the last word or two of every sentence we say to him, but his speech therapist says it's not a bad thing with all the progress he has made. He does echo things he watches in his videos or that some of his electronic toys or computer games say. He will oftentimes talk along with movies, electronic games, electronic toys, etc., or sing along with songs, not echoing them, so obviously he's memorized a lot of things, too. As far as his talking along or singing along, his speech therapist has not termed that echolalia. The echolalia can be cute, precious and hiliarous at times to hear him say some things that we say and put his own inflection into it, and at other times it is the most annoying thing he can do at that moment, so I just keep telling myself that this too will pass eventually when he gets a little better command on his expressive language skills (or at least I hope so!! I hope I've been of some help. Mom of Connor, 5-1/2 > What exactly is echolia? Is it where the child compies what is said? > My son only says about 15 words, but he can sing almost every word > to his " Tigger Movie " soundtrack. Is this considered echolia? He > doesn't sing them after they are said, he sings with it at the same > time? Just wondering! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 echolalia: The pathological, parrotlike, and apparently senseless repetition (echoing) of a word or phrase just spoken by another person. echolalia Parrot-like repetition of overheard words or fragments of speech. That's the definition in the medical dictionary. My son goes through spurts of echolalia. He actually has pretty good verbal skills emerging but still reverts back to echoing what we say from time to time. Right now, he's repeating the last word or two of every sentence we say to him, but his speech therapist says it's not a bad thing with all the progress he has made. He does echo things he watches in his videos or that some of his electronic toys or computer games say. He will oftentimes talk along with movies, electronic games, electronic toys, etc., or sing along with songs, not echoing them, so obviously he's memorized a lot of things, too. As far as his talking along or singing along, his speech therapist has not termed that echolalia. The echolalia can be cute, precious and hiliarous at times to hear him say some things that we say and put his own inflection into it, and at other times it is the most annoying thing he can do at that moment, so I just keep telling myself that this too will pass eventually when he gets a little better command on his expressive language skills (or at least I hope so!! I hope I've been of some help. Mom of Connor, 5-1/2 > What exactly is echolia? Is it where the child compies what is said? > My son only says about 15 words, but he can sing almost every word > to his " Tigger Movie " soundtrack. Is this considered echolia? He > doesn't sing them after they are said, he sings with it at the same > time? Just wondering! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 2004 Report Share Posted August 28, 2004 Echolalia is when the person repeats what was either just said, or speaks in " scripts " . When my son was verbal, that is mostly what he did. The singing of a song may be " echolalic " in a way, although singing along is great! You'll hear " spontaneous " speech referred to as the opposite of echolalia. Echolia What exactly is echolia? Is it where the child compies what is said? My son only says about 15 words, but he can sing almost every word to his " Tigger Movie " soundtrack. Is this considered echolia? He doesn't sing them after they are said, he sings with it at the same time? Just wondering! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 2004 Report Share Posted August 28, 2004 Echolalia is when the person repeats what was either just said, or speaks in " scripts " . When my son was verbal, that is mostly what he did. The singing of a song may be " echolalic " in a way, although singing along is great! You'll hear " spontaneous " speech referred to as the opposite of echolalia. Echolia What exactly is echolia? Is it where the child compies what is said? My son only says about 15 words, but he can sing almost every word to his " Tigger Movie " soundtrack. Is this considered echolia? He doesn't sing them after they are said, he sings with it at the same time? Just wondering! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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