Repeating purposefully: Empowering educators with functional communication models of echolalia in Autism

Background and Aims Echolalia, the repetition of speech, is highly prevalent in school aged children with Autism. Prior research has found that individuals with echolalia use their repetitions to engage in communicatively functional speech, in the absence of self-generated speech. Educators are the...

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Main Authors: Eli G. Cohn, Keith R. McVilly, Matthew J. Harrison, Lillian N. Stiegler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-04-01
Series:Autism and Developmental Language Impairments
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/23969415221091928