[SPAM] Re: Need a diagnosis!!!

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I'm no expert in this, but echolalia was not how I interpreted the

original question. In echolalia, if you ask your child " what did

you have for lunch today? " They might say back, " What for lunch

today " , rather than answering " A peanut butter sandwich " .

My interpretation of " repeating just about anything " was more like

when we say to our kids " Say dog. Dog. Say cat. Cat. Say ice.

Ice. " My son repeated the words I asked him to LONG before he could

pull together spontaneous speech. Words in isolation were clear as

a bell, but attempted sentences were still long trains of gibberish

(literally).

Echolalia, as in the example I gave, or even more pronounced like

when a child repeats scenes from movies or TV shows is definitely

more autistic. Repeating words in isolation on request is not.

- In , " Jeff "

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> My apraxia daughter was the opposite...couldn't imitate at all

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> the words she could say spontaneously) until several months of

> therapy and supplements kicked in. All of her speech (which was

> still very delayed) was spontaneous. I believe that echolalia is

> associated more with autism than apraxia.

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> > Hey that is a good question - I would be quite interested

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> > answer myself. My autistic son does a LOT of echolalia

(repeating

> what he

> > has heard) and has little to no spontaneous speech or what his

> therapist

> > call functional speech. My youngest also " can " repeat, but does

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> > more appropriately - like saying " n kay " for are you ok when he

is

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> > " oh no " when something happens....

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> > and the amazing zoocrew

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> > > My son, too, repeats just about anything, but can't so much

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> > > speech. Is this related to apraxia? I was worried it could be a

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> > > How many apraxic kids on this board repeated language (however

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> > > the pronunciation) but were slow to use that same language

> > > spontaneously?

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