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30 Sep 2012, 12:41 pm

Autistic children with speech delay and echolalia usually use echolalia in place of spontaneous flexible speech, like most of their statements are echoed and only a few are self-generated, and the self-generated ones are usually short and simple, like labeling things with nouns instead of conversing with people in sentences.

You can also have echolalia without speech delay. All young children tend to echo a lot during the typical speech development phase, but they will echo less as they develop moar complex speech. Autistic children might continue to echo a lot past the period of speech development and into adulthood.



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30 Sep 2012, 12:43 pm

I can't give an expert opinion, but have heard autistic brain functions described as a kind mistiming.

I believe that my ears are picking up clear and audible words, which get all mixed up. I hear myself repeating something, sometimes three or four times, before all the syllables come together.

Impatient people express annoyance, as though I am not paying attention, but I am trying for all I'm worth.

I didn't realize until well into highchool that I was the only person looking right at the teachers, which seemed to make them intimidated, but it helped me to concentrate on the lips, as they were forming the words.



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30 Sep 2012, 2:15 pm

btbnnyr wrote:
Autistic children with speech delay and echolalia usually use echolalia in place of spontaneous flexible speech, like most of their statements are echoed and only a few are self-generated, and the self-generated ones are usually short and simple, like labeling things with nouns instead of conversing with people in sentences.

You can also have echolalia without speech delay. All young children tend to echo a lot during the typical speech development phase, but they will echo less as they develop moar complex speech. Autistic children might continue to echo a lot past the period of speech development and into adulthood.


Yeah, I didn't have a delay in when I spoke; I was almost hyperlexic according to my psychologist.

But, my echolalia is still there...and was picked up on the ADOS this year.



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30 Sep 2012, 3:02 pm

EstherJ wrote:
Yeah, I didn't have a delay in when I spoke; I was almost hyperlexic according to my psychologist.

But, my echolalia is still there...and was picked up on the ADOS this year.


"Despite hyperlexic children's precocious reading ability, they may struggle to communicate. Often, hyperlexic children will have a precocious ability to read but will learn to speak only by rote and heavy repetition, and may also have difficulty learning the rules of language from examples or from trial and error, which may result in social problems. Their language may develop using echolalia, often repeating words and sentences. Often, the child has a large vocabulary and can identify many objects and pictures, but cannot put their language skills to good use. Spontaneous language is lacking and their pragmatic speech is delayed. Hyperlexic children often struggle with Who? What? Where? Why? and How? questions. Between the ages of 4 and 5 years old, many children make great strides in communicating.)"

(from Wikipedia: Hyperlexia)


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30 Sep 2012, 3:15 pm

Yeah, I have this. I didn't speak until I was 3 or 4, if memory serves me right.


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30 Sep 2012, 6:52 pm

Raziel wrote:
EstherJ wrote:
Yeah, I didn't have a delay in when I spoke; I was almost hyperlexic according to my psychologist.

But, my echolalia is still there...and was picked up on the ADOS this year.


"Despite hyperlexic children's precocious reading ability, they may struggle to communicate. Often, hyperlexic children will have a precocious ability to read but will learn to speak only by rote and heavy repetition, and may also have difficulty learning the rules of language from examples or from trial and error, which may result in social problems. Their language may develop using echolalia, often repeating words and sentences. Often, the child has a large vocabulary and can identify many objects and pictures, but cannot put their language skills to good use. Spontaneous language is lacking and their pragmatic speech is delayed. Hyperlexic children often struggle with Who? What? Where? Why? and How? questions. Between the ages of 4 and 5 years old, many children make great strides in communicating.)"

(from Wikipedia: Hyperlexia)


This is interesting (albeit wiki). I had the alphabet memorized at 18 months, and my parents noticed no abnormalities with my reading, writing, or speaking except for me repeating. I have always put language skills to good use (there I go repeating the quote!) in writing, but in speaking, although I have always been articulate, I can't describe exactly what I want to say.
But this still is interesting. Was there something going on that my parents never noticed?? Because my speech pragmatics are horrible.

Sorry to ramble about myself...