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delayed echolalia

KelleyBeanKelleyBean member
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DS, 2.5 is going through the EI process/evals right now. There are concerns about ASD because of poor socialization, inconsistent eye contact and delayed echolalia. He has very good speech and can recite lines from books, tv shows and movies but his communicative speech with DH and I is limited. He will often "talk" to us in these phrases. I'm thankful that he does have language but I'm not sure what to do or how to respond. He will follow directions and sometimes make his needs known "Mama, I want to have that" but most of the time it's lines from Cars. Does anyone have any experience with this?
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Re: delayed echolalia

  • lite-brightlite-bright member

    He's at about the same age as my DD1 was when her echolalia became more noticeable, and sounds very similar. She was dx'd with autism at three. She would do both immediate and delayed echolalia -- she still scripts a lot. Her vocabulary was fairly impr

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  • hopankahopanka member
    The good news is that scripted speech is still speech, so your child is and will be verbal. While it can drive you bonkers, please trust that it will get better. My son used to have bad echolalia and communication was challenging. But, just like most of h
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  • typesettypeset member
    Dr. Seuss is forbidden here. He was reciting whole books verbatim whenever he got stressed or bored. We mistook it for a sign of intelligence and encouraged him for a long time. He also memorizes scripts and uses them functionally. We most recently taught
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  • KelleyBeanKelleyBean member

    Thank you for all of the responses. We were also encouraging it for a long time thinking he was finally developing speech and we had no idea what it really was until just a few weeks ago. We have eliminated all of the toys/shows that he is modeling. He

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  • typesettypeset member
    One of our SLPs insists novel language comes from novel situations. This can be as simple as taking kitchen implements into the bath. Mix up the toys he has. Maybe plastic dinosaurs get caught in a pit of Legos. A block tree fell across the road the truck
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  • KelleyBeanKelleyBean member
    We will try to incorporate those. Thanks so much for your help. I really appreciate it.
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  • malcivarmalcivar member

    Thank you for the post! Chris is almost exactly like this - tremendous vocabulary but very little of it is 'functional'.  When you hear him talking, if you listen closely, it's not really 'talking', it's him reciting an episode of Super Why, or di

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