ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023
Functional echolalia in autism speech: Verbal formulae and repeated prior utterances as communicative and cognitive strategies.
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- When Tics and Autism Meet: Phenomenology, Severity, and Treatment Patterns.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2026Article
- Formula Production and its Relation to General Language Ability in Mandarin-Speaking Autistic Children.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2026Article
- Altered kinship vocal dynamics in marmosets with valproic acid-induced model of autism.iScience · 2026Article
- Beyond Mean Length of Utterance: Novel Measures for Characterizing the Spoken Language of Autistic Children.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2026Article
- Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go?Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Neuroplasticity-Based Approaches to Sensory Processing Alterations in Autism Spectrum Disorder.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Reports of Echolalia and Related Behaviors in Autism From Parents, Teachers, and Clinicians: Evidence From the Simon Simplex Collection.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Redefining communication in mental healthcare: generative AI for neurodivergent equity and non-verbal autistic inclusion.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Echolalia, the echoing of prior speech, is a typical characteristic of autism. Long considered meaningless repetition to be avoided, echolalia may in fact be used functionally in autism. This paper explores the functions of echolalia by children with autism. Based on two prior studies, we designed an elicitation task involving images of 12 professions (teacher) and 12 objects (birthday cake) commonly associated with given conventionalized expressions in Mandarin (e.g., "
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