autism early signs echolalia

My 3 yr old son echo's what his father orders at the drive thru.....my son is unable to tell us his needs but able to echo words and short scentences.

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[MsKsendza]

thx for posting this, how's he doing now? my neice is diagnosed with PDD and has similar symptoms as your son.

[cricket1r]

@MsKsendza He is doing great! he is in regular Ed., has friends and play dates, has become mostly independent in some self help skills, still struggles with some social concepts but that will be on going as he gets older and will have to to learn the "new" social rules.......thx for asking!

[YourComputerExpert]

The problem is: If a dad says what he does, and the dad believes he has autism, he gets diagnosed with Autism, because he can't really say anything against it. I was diagnosed with Autism because my shitty dad believed I had autism. 2 years later I was able to test for autism again, and they diagnosed me with completely nothing and they couldnt even see 1 autistic thing. I know my sister learned to speak by just saying what everybody else says. Isn't this what you believe he has and not reality?

[cricket1r]

@YourComputerExpert He was not diagnosed based off of his echolalia. We were in denial the first 6 months when he was labled "at risk" at 2 1/2 years, he recieved his first diagnosis at 3 1/2 years and a final diagnosis at 5 1/2 years.

I do agree that just because a child echos it does not mean they are autisitic. Typical children echo words to learn.

[cricket1r]

@KSitz77 Thank you for your opinion BUT my son does have Autism and this is just a short clip of his echolalia. He has many autism characteristics you can not see in this 20second clip. This video is just to show what echolalia looks like in an Autistic child, even though it can look different in every child THIS is just one example.

[KSitz77]

don't be too qjuick to label this kid. I had a daughter who learned to speak through ecolalia and now she is 10 and speaking on her own completely. Your son doesn't seem to have any other signs that I can see like strange gaze, flapping etc. He seems to be fully engaged also. Consider the possibility that he may have a different way of learnjng communication just as my daughter did.

[cricket1r]

@cricket1r I took another look at the video, I seen the part you are talking about. It did kinda look like I threw him off when I talked to him, like he was going to look my way but stopped and shiffted his eyes back to Dad quickly as he was waiting on Dad to see what els he might say that he could echo. hard to say though.....

[cricket1r]

@Learningbyhearing he was responding to his baby brother crying in the other seat. I dont think he would have responded to me, back then it was part of his routine to do this at drive thrus .

[cricket1r]

@Jen3910 ya lol, even more so now that he is very high functioning and 7 years old. if you get to know him you would start to notice IF you know what to look for. He is aware that his stims ae embarresing so he has asked for help to hide them infront of people and friends BUT he does them so much! they are not that obvious but after a while.....lol I love my boy, hes been through a lot these years and hes still going strong...

[cricket1r]

@Nicolap14 that's pretty common, I used to get embarresed too lol, he doesnt do this any more....

[Nicolap14]

My son is 6 and has autism, he also echoes, it's so embarrassing sometimes, he likes to do it if he hears a foreign accent. Your boy is beautiful.

[Jen3910]

Wow, you must get REALLY sick of people saying "does he really have autism?" or "he doesn't look autistic". He's gorgeous xxx

[KeswickCamp08]

"Alright, thanks you" "alright thank you...pickles" that was cute....but the good thing about repeating is maybe he will be one of the politer children, and if he talks to other people he will say please & thank you!