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Delayed echolalia in autism: some observations on differences within the term
Author(s) -
DYER CHRISTOPHER,
HADDEN ANGELA J.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1981.tb00850.x
Subject(s) - autism , psychology , developmental psychology , term (time) , cognitive psychology , facet (psychology) , language development , social psychology , personality , physics , quantum mechanics , big five personality traits
Summary Attention has recently focused on the need to build up a corpus of case observations relating to the function of delayed echolalia in various handicapping conditions but especially in early childhood autism. This present article offers six functional categories as an aid to clear reporting of observations and, thus, clarification of this little‐understood facet of deviant language development.