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Repetitive behavior?

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Just a little background: I have 3 sons. The oldest two are diagnosed with asperger's and PDD, respectively. We enrolled our now 15 month old in a at risk infants researching study at 6 months old. He had a few red flags at his 12 month appt. We planned to rescreen at 18 months, but due to a large uptick in behaviors between 12 and 15 months, we brought him back in earlier. Our neuropsych performed the ADOST and he came out a moderate to severe risk for ASD. We go back in on thurs to complete more testing.

My question: has anyone ever witnessed or heard of a repetitive behavior based upon a letter sound? My son has a really intense interest in things that end with a sh sound. Throughout the day he seeks out all the things he knows that end with sh and holds them and says the word over and over.

Some examples: he seeks out fish. We have some plastic fish in our sandbox, we have two books with fish, a flash card with a fish and there are fish on his lullaby sound machine thing in his bedroom. He will go find these things, usually dragging someone along and then say "pish" a bunch of times. He does the same with brushes which include hair brushes, toothbrushes, sensory brushes, bottle brushes, brooms, etc. finally when we read goodnight moon, a preferred story, he knows the places they say brush, mush and hush and will repeat them.

So what do you think, quirky toddler learning to talk? Or the start of a new repetitive behavior? This one has me stumped...
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  • typesettypeset member
    My vote is for vocal stereotypy. Probably likes how the sound feels in his mouth. 
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  • kcisthebombdotcomkcisthebombdotcom member
    My daughter verbally Stims in the form of a repetitive sound. She is not on the spectrum but does have sensory processin issues.
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    imagetypeset:
    My vote is for vocal stereotypy. Probably likes how the sound feels in his mouth. 

    Probably this. Stimming on sounds is pretty common among kids on the higher end of the spectrum.

    DS pretty much always played with words. He liked the sound of certain words and letter sounds and would over use them. Once it got associated with an object, he would seek that out. He liked the term "jewel wheels" as a word fro aluminum alloy or chromed wheels. He'd find a car in a parking lot and look at all for saying the phrase at each stop. Sometimes he'd mutter them to himself. When he was a bit older, he'd replay a certain cartoon in his head that had the phrase "the hunt, the hunt" which would lead to using the phrase and laughing as he replayed the scene in his mind.

    How's his speech otherwise? DS was starting to use sentenses by around 16 months, which should have been a huge red flag for his pedi. He burned himself pretty badly at 17 months and when the pedi walked in to examine him she said sort of rhetorically "What happened to you?" and DS looked at her and said "I spilled hot tea on myself".

     

    This actually makes a lot of sense.  My oldest, with an AS diagnosis, did a lot of word play in the preschool years.  His typically was around rhyming words/sounds.  He would walk around saying I see a car. Car, tar, far, jar, mar, car. It progressed to more complex word play as he got more into it, similar to your jewel wheels example.  

    His language is.... weird? He reminds me so much of my AS kid that started speaking in sentences around 15-16 months.  However, the stuff R says is just so odd.  He was saying mama and dada purposefully really young, but then quit and still does not call us, or anyone else, by name. He never really used any of the other phrases like that (baba, lala) that I feel like is more typical. He went straight to words like fish, brush, bath, toothpaste, cover, berries, outside.  Things that I think are trickier to say and frankly quite odd for a 15 month old to be using. His articulation is clear to the point that strangers can understand these words. He started to put words together a few months ago and now he is often times using 2-3 word phrases to communicate. However, when answering a question, I think we are seeing echolalia, more like my PDD kid.  He does not say or gesture yes or no, he just repeats the last word of the question.

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