2. We interacted with him mostly like teachers and adults, ... I have a grandmother who taught challenged pre-schoolers for 30+ yrs, and she is convinced the echolalia we see in my almost 4 year old is a problem – even insisted on autism screening – but he continues to change the exact wording all the time,
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My 3 1/2 year old does have spontaneuous speech, but he also does some immediate and delayed echolalia. One example is that sometimes if you ask, "Do you want to drink chocolate milk," he will answer with, "Chocolate milk." He won't repeat entire phrases as immediate echolalia, but he will sometimes say the last thing.
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I would say that from what I see his biggest delay continues to be verbal.He has made big strides since about a year ago (makes full eye contact now) is a little more social,etc but again the verbal is still lagging.When he was diagnosed about 2 they said he has the speech of a 6 month old infant.
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Expert: Valerie Herskowitz - 8/12/2009; Question; Hi Valerie, I have a question regarding my 2 and a half year old son. I have been concerned about his speech for the past 6 months. At 2 years old he had hundreds of individual words but struggled to put them together. ... Immediate echolalia is not necessary a sign of autism,
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Doesn't flap hands no rocking no echolalia no sensitive to noise; ... 18 months he had a good vocabulary-12 words; 2 yr old - 2 words sentence; He had good eye contact until last month when I first noticed sometimes he ... ; You are here: Experts > Parenting/Family > Parenting Special Needs > Autism > 3 year old Autism;
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Language and speech performances of 22 echolalic three-year-olds were compared .... revealed examiner notations of "some echolalia" on two records; ...
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Some of the reasons why a three-year old child might use echolalia include: (1) lack of understanding of the questions, (2) inability to formulate an answer, (3) lack of understanding of the pragmatics of questions -- i.e. that an answer is expected.
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Well, here it is, my first celebration post!  Way back in May, I shared about B’s echolalia. ... 2 Responses to “Celebration! Echolalia and my Delayed Toddler” ... My Journey to get a Diagnosis and Treatment for my Special 2 Year Old!
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On the basis of autistic echolalia. Journal of Communication Disorders 2, 38-47. ... Latency of echoic responses by three year old children. ...
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that repeating is called echolalia and is a sign of devlopmental problems. ... My 3/1/2 year old nephew is a bright child in many ways. He knows his colors and has memorized some short songs. However, he tends to reapeat everything we say. If we tell him to pick up his toys, he will say "Pick up my toys, pick up my toys?"
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