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echolalia
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echolalia [‚ek·ō′lā·lē·ə]
(medicine)
The purposeless, often seemingly involuntary repetition of words spoken by another person; a disorder seen in certain psychotic states and in certain organic brain syndromes. Also known as echophrasia.


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