echolalia
IPA: ˈɛkoʊɫˈɑɫiʌ
noun
- (clinical psychology, autism) The involuntary repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another person; either immediate or delayed.
- An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development.
- Any apparently meaningless, repetitious noises, especially voices.
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Examples of "echolalia" in Sentences
- She was also found to have echolalia.
- That example was not really echolalia.
- Pronoun reversal is closely linked to echolalia.
- It is a complex tic, like echolalia and coprolalia.
- Clanging or echolalia may be present in Tourette's Syndrome.
- Someone just did something to echolalia that needs attention.
- See also breast feeding; diet; food; formula feeding echolalia, 77
- Immediate echolalia causes the immediate repetition of a word or phrase.
- Echolalia is the automatic repetition of vocalizations made by another person.
- His voice is R. Kelly on a hit of helium or Prince stricken with echolalia, the compulsion to repeat words.
- They may echo the last few words of someone else's sentence, a condition known as echolalia, or they may not talk at all.
- Critter can learn to hold a pencil, but you don't care if he can talk in something other than echolalia or second-person?
- She has something called echolalia, and all the research I've done takes it back to autism, as in, if your child has this, they have autism.
- And, you know, a lot of people have been concerned about video-based training for kids with autism because of the concern that they will fall into a pattern of -- it ` s called echolalia, and that is the repeating that you ` re talking about.
- One theory of sleep is that dreams are just a nighttime hallucination that the brain simply strings together into a meaningful narrative, which means that all of the sleep talking Liz is hearing on the video playback is just a series of words, echolalia from the day tossed together with her own mind making connections.