'Involuntary echolalia'
There are other types of echolalia that are difficult to explain, for example, involuntary echolalia, when the person blurts out words or...
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- Sep 16
- 5 min
Communicative echolalia in autism
Though echolalia can be non-communicative, in many cases it is used for communication. Parents of autistic children (with echolalia) can...
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- Sep 2
- 4 min
Non-communicative echolalia in autism:
If it’s not for communication, what’s the point? As I didn’t know much at the time, I made a mistake thinking that as soon as my son...
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- Aug 19
- 4 min
Signs or Mimes:
Which is better for autistic individuals? Although sign language was first developed as a means of communication for the deaf, it has...
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- Apr 15
- 2 min
Guidance for communicating and interacting with autistic people
Autistic people have unique ways of communicating and interacting that are rooted in their unique ways of thinking and experiencing the...
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- Apr 1
- 5 min
Fluent Speakers – So What’s the Problem?
Some individuals with ASD (especially those with high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome) possess well-developed spoken language,...
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- Jan 22
- 3 min
Bilingualism in Autism:
To speak (another language) or not to speak (with an autistic child)? Typically developing children in multilingual families tend to pick...
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- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Late talkers
Not much is known about the language trajectories of non-verbal and minimally verbal children yet. However, the number of research...
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- Oct 29, 2021
- 5 min
Lack of expressive verbal language – ‘autistic muteness’:
Why can’t my child speak? It was estimated that about one third (Bryson 1996) to one half (Lord & Paul 1997) of autistic people never...
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- Oct 22, 2021
- 4 min
Early vocalisations and babbling in autistic babies
At the age of about four months the baby starts babbling and producing different sounds. Vocalisations Interestingly, during the first...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 4 min
Non-Verbal Languages in Autism
We assume that language is necessary verbal (i.e., comprising of words). That is why we say that children are verbal if they can talk (no...
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- Oct 8, 2021
- 4 min
Is Atypical Cry an Early Biomarker for Autism?
At about the same age all typically developing children, no matter what culture they are born into, manifest similar patterns of speech...
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- Sep 17, 2021
- 4 min
Autistic inertia:
Can’t start – can’t stop Another problem autistic individuals experience is ‘inertia’ (Dekker 1999) – difficulty in starting, stopping,...
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- Aug 27, 2021
- 6 min
AutismS, Fruit Salad, Jigsaw Puzzles and a Bit of Linguistics
Let’s start with linguistics: The way we label things around us means a great deal. Let’s look at the widely used terms in an ‘autistic...
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- Aug 13, 2021
- 5 min
Selective Mutism
Helen, an 11-year-old girl with autism, goes to mainstream school and does very well at all the subjects. But no one at school has ever...
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- Aug 6, 2021
- 3 min
Tourette syndrome and Autism
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome or Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by sudden, brief, repetitive,...
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- Jul 30, 2021
- 3 min
Hyperlexia:
A splinter skill or a learning style? One morning (not the best time for me – getting ready for my work), my autistic son (who had...
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- Jun 25, 2021
- 4 min
Direct vs indirect communication:
Insisting on ‘Look at me when I’m talking to you’ vs. Talking to the wall Some autistic children need an intensive interaction style that...
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- Jun 18, 2021
- 3 min
Direct vs. Peripheral Perception:
‘Do you want eye contact or a conversation?’ This was the question asked by someone with Asperger syndrome when he was approached with...
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