speech | Autism PDD
hi fred
yes my son has lots words he uses for communication but he always talks nonesence, specialy when he doesn't liketo do some thing he talk so load till we go away.i don't take him to public places like post, bank and..... because he gets attention and i get so emberec. I realy dont know what to do with echololia.
he does not have lots of issues except echololia and very very very picky eater.
Adam was echolalic
to get him to answer the way we wanted him to we would ask certain questions like:
"adam..do you want chocolate? or Lettuce?"
We would show him both and always say chocolate first because he would repeat the last word said anyway and we knew that lettuce was not desirable to him
He would say "Lettuce"
We would give him lettuce and it would make him frustrated and mad.
SO we repeated the question again and showed him both items. He then looked at the chocolate but said "lettuce"
We again gave him the lettuce. When he became frustrated we again asked the question and showed him both items.
The next time he looked at the chocolate and didnt' say anything for a long period of time ...just kept staring at the chocolate. THen after a period of time and asking the question over and over he finally said..."Chocolate!!"
This is how we worked with imediate echolalia.
With the delayed echolalia that was from people conversations we ignored.
With the video scripting we would say things about what show or movie that he was scripting from and it made him interested in what we were saying and gave us some good together time with him actually being involved with us.
Karrie
Your child DOES have communication. He just isn't using WORDS to communicate. He's using gestures. The first step toward getting him to communicate in words is to NOT use words. Use PECS. The speech therapist can implement this program and show you how to use it at home. PECS consists of symbolic pictures (icons) that the child is required to use in order to communicate. SInce ASD kids are VERY visual, they learn all that language is an EXCHANGE by exchanging a PECS icon for the item they want. So when you know your child wants a cookie, you make him get the PECS icon for cookie and give it to you. Then you say, "Oh, I see you want a cookie" and immediately give him a cookie. This is a way for a child to "see" language at work. Over time, he will start associating the spoken word "cookie" with this whole language exchange. PECS helps the child take the words he knows how to say and begin to use them as functional language because it "shows" the child functional language. It works better than using sign language because people in the outside world can understand pictures whereas few people understand sign. If your child learns sign language, he will be able to communicate with only a few people.
Wow I naturally did things like you did also. I did a lot of rotating of words..etc. What I described above was told to me by his speech Path and we were given things like this to work on at home. I know this is not the thread but I seen the video of your son...he's cute...:)
Karrie
[QUOTE=tzoya] Use PECS. The speech therapist can implement this program and show you how to use it at home. PECS consists of symbolic pictures (icons) that the child is required to use in order to communicate. SInce ASD kids are VERY visual, they learn all that language is an EXCHANGE by exchanging a PECS icon for the item they want. So when you know your child wants a cookie, you make him get the PECS icon for cookie and give it to you. Then you say, "Oh, I see you want a cookie" and immediately give him a cookie. This is a way for a child to "see" language at work. Over time, he will start associating the spoken word "cookie" with this whole language exchange. PECS helps the child take the words he knows how to say and begin to use them as functional language because it "shows" the child functional language.[/QUOTE]
I'm with Tzoya on this one. DS was 100% echolalic. PECS worked wonders in improving his language. We use to hide all the stuff he played with in different places so that he couldn't drag us to them to get them. He was forced to use PECS to communicate with us when he wanted stuff and everytime he would bring a PECS picture, we'd use words to reinforce the words and sentences and make him repeat them and reward him everytime he does it.
[quote]adam..do you want chocolate? or Lettuce?"We would show him both and always say chocolate first because he would repeat the last word said anyway and we knew that lettuce was not desirable to him
He would say "Lettuce"
We would give him lettuce and it would make him frustrated and mad[/quote]
My son did this too!!!!!!!! I still get away with it sometimes ROTFL I will put the thing I would RATHER him pick out at the end and he will repeat it, although he is much improved and very rarely does echolalia, it still comes back now and then. What I did to work on this was I would say "Gage do you want to watch Peter Pan or Dinosaur? Dinosaur or Peter Pan? Peter Pan or Dinosaur? Dinosaur or Peter Pan?" I would keep rotating all the choices, even after he had made a choice. Pretty soon he heard all the choices so many repeats that he made a choice on his own, if you see what I mean :)
Although I am grateful to hear his voice, I would love for him to talk TO me, and have a conversation, instead of just repeating things that come to his mind. I hope I don't sound greedy
.nakama
I would just model for him and praise him for all attempt even if you are prompting him...he needs to learn his needs can be met by his words instead of taking you to what he needs. It is hard to now compensate and just do for them at this age but it is will open doors for him he may not realize are available..Sarah echoed but didnt understand "why" she did this only that it seemed to be appropriate at the time..we stop and model her words for her and made her repeat them. ex.. she would take us to apple juice..I would state "mama I want some apple juice please (shorten sentence to your childs understanding) and then have her repeat it ...when she did I whooped and cheered and thanked her for using her words and immediately gave her the apple juice...after a few times of this she requested on her own without prompts:) We model every thing under the sun and she took to it like a fish to water and it clicked for her... I still model for her:) Good luck:)
my son has lots of words. lots of echololia,but he likes me to do every thing for him. he will show me wat he wants instet of telling me.he can talk he will say eveything very clear but he won't do it all the time. any one knows how much longer it will tak to talk for everything.he is 5 years mild autism
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