tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5441989712918579133.post278408201030914920..comments2024-01-26T03:49:33.080-05:00Comments on Rarer in Girls...My Daughter with Autism: Responding to delayed echolaliaSuzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08240262747073351481noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5441989712918579133.post-2052616394051694462013-05-28T22:25:16.262-04:002013-05-28T22:25:16.262-04:00The interaction is what is important. Janey knows...The interaction is what is important. Janey knows what to expect when you engage her in the echolalia. I think that is a huge step toward purposeful speech. I'd be downloading all her favorite dialogs and rehearsing with her. It is so hard to find that connection. Stick with it!mknecht24https://www.blogger.com/profile/17819582073139000178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5441989712918579133.post-84161322386524348622013-05-27T11:37:29.225-04:002013-05-27T11:37:29.225-04:00That does sound a lot like Janey! I love that loo...That does sound a lot like Janey! I love that look, that look that says they are happy and engaged and excited. I feel sometimes like I'm living a musical already, and I'm not always sure I like it either! Sometimes I'd give a lot for a less interesting life.Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08240262747073351481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5441989712918579133.post-46770890407078466362013-05-27T07:32:16.723-04:002013-05-27T07:32:16.723-04:00We don't have echolalia here, hardly any other...We don't have echolalia here, hardly any other forms of speaking either. However, there is something that is familiar here. During the past months, Ville has begun to use some PECS cards (What, he is only thirteen!). To enhance this we put a couple of familiar songs on TapSpeak Choice (=made pictures for each word and recorded the corresponding sung word, so that tapping each picture in an orderly manner produces the song -roughly speaking). We got the same reaction as you, excitement, intensive eye contact. He does not respond to a lot that we say, but shows tremendous interest in words when they come as elements of a song. As if he recognized them better as parts of some bigger structure. Maybe the melody helps too. Perhaps we should turn our life into The Sound Of Music. I'm not sure if I like that.Anttihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03698236723394477310noreply@blogger.com