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aspie48
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21 Sep 2011, 7:48 pm

victorytea wrote:
My Caleb is a very smart and loving child. He talks a lot of repetitious nonsense most of the time. My question- should we allow him to do this or should we curb it? He is an aspie- we love him dearly and if he needs to do this, we will listen, Just don't know what's best for him.

he's 6. just a gentle reminder should do. he's still a kid but, obviously he needs to grow out of it.



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21 Sep 2011, 11:09 pm

blondeambition wrote:
I think that Cyberdad's kiddo has echolalia.


Yeah, we basically use her echolalia to help her learn speech. Her vocab is on par with NT kids her age but it the expressive use of language in situational context that we are still working on.

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We also used whatever speech videos that I could find, as well as various preschool videos. Whenever English subtitles or closed captioning was available, I turned it on. He watched a lot more videos than regular TV. Anyway, as the speech improved, the echolalia went away.


My daughter is watching Harry Potter, so I'll see if xshe can watch it with close captioned text.