LOVE this paper, featuring parents' neuro-affirming narratives about echolalia.
My son's echolalia brings him JOY.
Key message: 'Therapeutic' attempts to extinguish echolalia are cultural homogenisation. They deny the individual's autonomous identity.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Echolalia has been described as the repetition of words, phrases, songs or other more elaborate dialogues uttered by another person, which may be immediate or delayed (International Classification of ...