autism | Olga Bogdashina

'Involuntary echolalia'

There are other types of echolalia that are difficult to explain, for example, involuntary echolalia, when the person blurts out words or...

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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Bilingualism in Autism:

To speak (another language) or not to speak (with an autistic child)? Typically developing children in multilingual families tend to pick...

Laughing is not always a laughing matter

In autism, there is laughing/giggling and ‘laughing/giggling’. There can be numerous reasons to laugh, which are difficult to understand...

Late talkers

Not much is known about the language trajectories of non-verbal and minimally verbal children yet. However, the number of research...

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...

Theory of Mind (and alleged lack of it) in autism

According to some researchers (e.g., Ramachandran 1995), it is mirror neurons that allow us to "read" and understand another's...

AutismS, Fruit Salad 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...

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...

Cognitive Synaesthesia:

When Wednesdays are blue, numbers are as cities, and 5 + 2 = yellow… After one of the ‘incidents’ (panic attacks), Alyosha attempted to...

Sensory Synaesthesia in Autism:

Seeing or tasting sounds, hearing colours, being touched by sights… Alyosha was about 9 years old when he tried to account for a panic...