echolalia or something else?

Ginlyn0

I honestly don't know much about echolalia. I get that that with television for example, a child with echolalia might repeat back what is said on the television but I never had personal experience with it with DD. What about if a child repeats their own phrase or question over and over again? Is that echolalia or something else? DS repeats himself constantly when he says something to DH or I. He will keep repeating even after we acknowledge what he has said and answer him or even if we try repeating it back to him to make sure he knows we heard him. I'm talking he repeats it like 5-10 times. This doesn't happen with every phrase he says but does happen at least 3-4 times a day. He's 31 months.

kcisthebombdotcom

Is this is only issue with speech? Was he a late talker? My son has either apraxia of speech or phonological processing disorder (he exhibits signs of both) and his speech developed atypically. He went from under 50 words to gramatically correct sentences seemingly overnight though lots of errors with articulation remain. He does this on occasion now but did it a ton when he first became really verbal.

My SLP described it as getting "stuck" on something. She just told me to redirect him when he can't seem to move past something and it would help. It does, though he still does it on occasion. Just not as much as he used to.

Ginlyn0

DS doesn't talk a lot. He knows 100s of words though. He's known upper and lower case letters and can distinguish them since he was 19 months. It's just one of many issues we are keeping an eye on because of our family history of ASD so I was wondering if this tied in similar to echolalia.

Things are popping up more frequently. We've seen some hand-flapping and some other similar behaviors like hitting his knuckles together when we are in crowded places or when he is excited or nervous. He doesn't play with other kids his age. At daycare, all the kids love him and know his name. They tell him hi and bye when he comes in and but he doesn't know their names and is uninterested in them and doesn't ever say hi or bye to them. Same goes for his 2's class at church (which I teach one time a month- but he goes to every Sun). He doesn't play with the other kids at all. He will play with his siblings and older cousins, but not his cousin that is 5 month older than him.

We were at a toy train exhibit at a mall this weekend and I was trying to catch some of it on video since I was recording him anyway. I did catch a second or two of some of the behavior and some toe-walking when we were in the little store on the way out and he was excited about a Thomas train but DH decided to see if I could catch a transition tantrum instead by interupting with what I was doing with telling DS it was time to go. He did throw a fit but it wasn't the worst I've seen and he knew I was recording. I know some of the stuff is typical at this age and to someone else my video may not even look that off. I've debated on seeing about posting it here for opinions if I can figure out where I can upload it to link it. I just feel like with DS's hitting milestones on time and such that if he does have an ASD. I know how hard it was to get DD diagnosed because of her hitting milestones on time, ect. It wasn't until she was older and the behaviors were more apparent to others. So I decided I'm going to try to record some of the behaviors so if they aren't displayed in front of others in case we pursue testing at this time.