echolalic

echolalia /echo·la·lia/ (ek″o-la´le-ah) stereotyped repetition of another person's words and phrases.

ech·o·la·li·a (

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1. The immediate and involuntary repetition of words or phrases just spoken by others, often a symptom of autism or some types of schizophrenia. Also called echophrasia.

2. An infant's repetition of the sounds made by others, a normal occurrence in childhood development. Also called echophrasia.

echo·lalic (-l

k) adj.

Echolalia

Involuntary echoing of the last word, phrase, or sentence spoken by someone else or sound in the environment.

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echolalia

[ek′ōlā′lyə]

Etymology: Gk, echo + lalein, to babble

1 (in psychiatry) the automatic and meaningless repetition of another's words or phrases, especially as seen in schizophrenia. A kind of echolalia is delayed echolalia.

2 (in pediatrics) a baby's imitation or repetition of sounds or words produced by others. It occurs normally in early childhood development. Also called echophrasia, echo speech. echolalic, adj.

echolalia [ek″o-la´le-ah]

stereotyped repetition of another person's words or phrases, seen in some cases of schizophrenia, particularly in catatonic schizophrenia, in Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome, and in neurological disorders such as transcortical aphasia.

echolalia (ek″ola´le

n an uncontrollable reiteration of a word or phrase recently stated by another individual.

echolalia

Neurology The parroting by a Pt of another person's words or speech fragments

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-lalia
Alpers' disease
Andersen's disease
catatonia
catatonic schizophrenia
cerea flexibilitas
delayed echolalia
echo sign
echo speech
echopathy
echophrasia
facial tic
Jumping Disease
Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Syndrome
Kanner's syndrome
Kinky Hair Disease
Köhler's bone disease
Latah
latent schizophrenia

In fact, John himself is the most interesting thing in it, and he is an echolalic simpleton who occasionally breaks up his mimicked conversation with the initially gnomic and yet thereafter quickly uncompelling information that there are, "Some things I know and some things I don't.

Cable girl by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

There he shouts cheerfully - an echolalic autistic who repeats exactly what you say to him in English and Arabic - and gestures that he wants to get on with the exercises he loves.

You can't feed carrots to an electric horse by Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

McGee and colleagues also noted improvement in quality of verbalizations, given that program entry verbalizations tended to be echolalic or perseverative speech.

Promoting the social and cognitive competence of children with ... by Skokut, Mary; Robinson, Suzanne; Openden, Daniel; Jimerson, Shane R. / The California School Psychologist

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