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Re: Re: Re: Besides being sick ... (Reply to this comment)
by holleybeeman
Love this true depiction of living with an echo! Funny enough, I have a 6-year-old son, named Alex, with high-functioning ASD!
Funny moment....my husband and I were having a "discussion" about some of our bills, when Alex comes through the bedroom door and tells us to "Call Dr. Phil, at 1-800....,". Lets just say that the bill discussion was over for the evening, as we could not stop laughing. Good luck with everything....from one Alex's mom to another.
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Mar 31 '08
5:27 am PDT
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Talking (Reply to this comment)
by pokey72
Great review/essay, I love about your son, your articles are so interesting and filled with so much love.
Did you ever think of getting tapes that teach how to speak, or say phrases. Like people do to learn a different language. Just a thought, I am sure you have thought of it too.
Give Alex a hug for me, and Hugs to you
Pokey72/Mary
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May 28 '07
5:17 am PDT
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Informative essay (Reply to this comment)
by bonniesayers
No signs ever of echolalia here, although we did have the onset of stuttering at age seven, which looked like it could have been Tourette's syndrome.
There's a mom whose son was in Matt's preschool class and his older brother is in college - he has Tourette's and Aspergers. I am getting good feedback though on the college life and work.
Bonnie
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May 27 '07
5:14 pm PDT
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Re: I've been subbing alot in a lifeskills class (Reply to this comment)
by marytara,  in Kids & Family
Oh I love your outlook about how its nice to be with someone agreeable :)
Sounds like an amazing guy!
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May 27 '07
6:00 am PDT
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I've been subbing alot in a lifeskills class (Reply to this comment)
by jnbmoore
this past month.
I just love the young man with echolalia. As I told the paras, it's nice to be with someone who agrees with everything I say.
This kid is amazing. i think he can recite every Disney movie ever made. He did get an award for meeting the excellency category on the NCLB tests (93percent or above) for both math and reading
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May 26 '07
8:44 pm PDT
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Re: That's my Alex. (Reply to this comment)
by marytara, in Kids & Family
$10 per bad words.
If my son says anything bad after hanging out with you I'll have to find a suitable punishment for you - one you wouldn't enjoy!
~MT
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May 25 '07
1:32 pm PDT
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Re: That's interesting... (Reply to this comment)
by marytara, in Kids & Family
Steph,
I'm flattered. Seriously though, glad to help share some personal experience to the subject. A lot of people are confused by Alex's speech and largely the 'parroting' so I wanted to explain that.
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May 25 '07
1:31 pm PDT
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Re: Re: Re: Oh my.... (Reply to this comment)
by marytara, in Kids & Family
YES! my daughter is a little parrot too - it is the age. Its when they get stuck in it that it becomes echolalia....
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May 25 '07
1:28 pm PDT
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Re: Re: Oh my.... (Reply to this comment)
by mizgnomer
My recently-turned 2 year old parrots like crazy, so my heart started beating a bit faster as I read your review, that is until my brain stepped in and I remembered that parroting is fairly normal for his age and stage of language development. It is a bit strange to have a constant echo following me around the house...
It does sound rather endearing, and I'm so glad he's able to use echolalia to communicate more effectively. Thanks again for sharing these aspects of your life and educating the rest of us.
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May 25 '07
11:26 am PDT
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That's my Alex. (Reply to this comment)
by Freak369,  in Kids & Family
I didn't read any of the other comments. Why? Because that is my Alex. Yes, I am smirking and grinning up a storm. One of these days I am going to come and kidnap both your babes and take them shopping. Needless to say, now that I know about Alex and Echolalia, I'll have to up my "swear bucket" fine and be on my best behavior [yeah lolololol].
But on a serious note, these editorials are helping others learn more about Autism and some of the varying levels and degrees of it.
My biological clock isn't just ticking, it's stomping around like Marisa Tomei in "My Cousin Vinnie". I could think of a lot worse things than having Alex walk around repeating me ...
Keep smiling girlie ...
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May 21 '07
10:09 am PDT
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That's interesting... (Reply to this comment)
by Dr_Steph
...to hear your experience with echolalia. I teach a unit on autism and autism-spectrum disorders every quarter in my abnormal psychology class and I always talk about echolalia. I love your examples of how it serves a communicative function for your son ("Is that for me?").
Thanks for broadening my view of echolalia and the autism-spectrum. Too bad you aren't closer - I'd have you guest lecture for me!
Steph
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May 20 '07
3:07 pm PDT
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Re: Re: Besides being sick ... (Reply to this comment)
by KMINER, in Kids & Family
I had the student for 3 years actually, and what was most interesting is how the commercials would change. What started out as selling me knives at age 11, by age 14 he was always trying to get me to buy some R&B or Hip Hop compilation.
It *was* nice to see how he sort of correlated it with his age and growing up (he was really into music so my guess is as he became more aware of his environment he focused on different commercials). He would carry around slips of paper with 3 lines on them ... you know at the bottom of MTV videos where it states the artist/song/etc ... he memorized millions of them and would list them out!
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May 20 '07
1:35 pm PDT
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Re: Besides being sick ... (Reply to this comment)
by marytara, in Kids & Family
Kimm,
I would have to agree that there's some correlation on the perseveration aspect part of it having to do stress/illness/tired etc with Alex too, most definitely.
As for the infomercials. He LOVES them. I always thought it was part of the hyperlexia where he LOVES the numbers and words on the screen. Anytime he sees something on the screen he reads it - even during a program when they put the channel number and/or program rating up in the corner - he wants to read it... all the credits before and after a show, gotta see & read them all. But the infomercials... those especially. The stubborn belly fat (relacore) one made me REAL happy when I was pregnant and he marched up to me, patted my fat 9 month pregnant stomach and rattled off the "stubborn belly fat call 1-800...... CALL NOW". Nice!
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May 20 '07
1:21 pm PDT
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Re: The ... (Reply to this comment)
by marytara, in Kids & Family
Mary,
the wireless commercials WAS actually really funny! I was actually a little sad when he stopped doing that one!!!
~MT
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May 20 '07
1:15 pm PDT
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Re: Oh my.... (Reply to this comment)
by marytara, in Kids & Family
Kath,
Echolalia is a part of 'normal speech development' for toddlers in some ways because if you think about it - its how we learn, by repeating.Its when kids get stuck in it then it becomes a speech & language issue... often a trait of autism (in 75% of verbal autistic individuals) but also other psychological or neurodevelopmental issues could be going on. I would think if the child uses the 'parroting' as a primary form of speech then something else could be going on there...
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May 20 '07
1:14 pm PDT
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Re: The scripting (Reply to this comment)
by marytara, in Kids & Family
Cindy,
Alex hasn't done anything has priceless as the fire & brimstone sermon yet. That one takes the echolalic cake!
~MT
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May 20 '07
1:10 pm PDT
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Besides being sick ... (Reply to this comment)
by KMINER, in Kids & Family
I just wanted to comment from my own personal experience with teaching that I often have seen a lot more echolalic phrases in times my children with Autism have been stressed.
One student in particular we knew when the school work was frustrating because he'd begin repeating TV commercial ads ("call now for Ginseu knives, only $39.99" and etc) -- and then he'd get louder and louder and more adamant in his repititions. When it got to him just repeating "Call now!" (the last line of the commercial) over and over again, we knew there was going to be a meltdown.
Kimm
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May 20 '07
12:23 pm PDT
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The ... (Reply to this comment)
by marybatson
... wireless buzzlines is hysterical, although, I'm sure it can be, or was annoying.
Thank you for the continual education.
Mary :)
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May 20 '07
11:35 am PDT
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Oh my.... (Reply to this comment)
by kamel622
..I hadn't heard of this but my daughter has a 2 1/2 year old daycare girl that parrots all of the time. I'm sending her the link to this review...you surely turned on a light bulb for me.
Thanks MT...Make it a great day......kath
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May 20 '07
10:07 am PDT
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The scripting (Reply to this comment)
by hadassahchana
OMG, I was just thinking about this last night. IT sometimes seems like they go for just days and days repeating something they've heard. I think I told you about Bee repeating an entire radio sermon by a fire-and-brimstone preacher he heard in Georgia. The really funny thing is that at least in our case, Bee repeats things when he is cued by a word or a situation, but what he says might be wildly inappropriate, as when he called a store owner a heathen and sinner - just from repeating that stupid sermon!
I don't have any advice at all. Oh, except, please don't let any of your friends do the whole fortune cookie thing of saying "in bed" after their fortune? Bee heard that once, and he's started saying that when people say something that he thinks might be funny. Sometimes, it is funny, like when he said it to me after I said I was going to go brush my teeth. Other times, like when a lady at the dog park said she was going to go pick up some poop....well, sometimes it doesn't work so well. Still, I know we'll survive this.
Wonderful essay. Alex sounds like the coolest kid!
:)
Cindy
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May 20 '07
8:29 am PDT
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