echolalia
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Echolalia is the repetition of vocalizations made by another person; when repeated by the same person, it is called palilalia. In its profound form it is automatic and effortless. It is one of the echophenomena, closely related to echopraxia, the automatic repetition of movements made by another person; both are "subsets of imitative behavior" whereby sounds or actions are imitated "without explicit awareness". Echolalia may be an immediate reaction to a stimulus or may be delayed.
Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Echolalia
- Medical condition.synonyms
- Echologia, echophrasia
- Medical condition.specialty
- Psychiatry, neurology, speech–language pathology
- Medical condition.image
- Autism Aspect Echolalia 1.png
- Medical condition.alt
- A silhouette of an autistic woman repeating the same lines that she hears again multiple times.
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Research
467 papers- Echolalia from a transdiagnostic perspective.Autism & developmental language impairments · 2022
- Should Echolalia Be Considered a Phonic Stereotypy? A Narrative Review.Brain sciences · 2021
- Echolalia.2026
- A systematic review of interventions for echolalia in autistic children.International journal of language & communication disorders · 2023
- Echolalia in patients with primary progressive aphasia.European journal of neurology · 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Autism Aspect Echolalia 1.png
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- ICPC 2 ID
- P24
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C97166
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0010529
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10 sectionsContents
- Signs and symptoms
- Associated disorders
- Anatomical correlates
- Imitation and learning
- Function
- Tourette syndrome
- Autism
- See also
- References
- External links
Echolalia is the repetition of vocalizations made by another person; when repeated by the same person, it is called palilalia. In its profound form it is automatic and effortless. It is one of the echophenomena, closely related to echopraxia, the automatic repetition of movements made by another person; both are "subsets of imitative behavior" whereby sounds or actions are imitated "without explicit awareness". Echolalia may be an immediate reaction to a stimulus or may be delayed.
Echolalia occurs in many cases of autism spectrum disorder and Tourette syndrome. It may also occur in several other neurological conditions such as some forms of dementia or stroke-related aphasia.