I have a very strong love/hate relationship with the new self-checkout lines at stores. I love not waiting in line. I hate the talking that the machines make.
Most people virtually ignore the noises, I’m sure, but not Pookie. They have become very strong echolalic scripts. “Please insert cash to complete transaction” [...]
There is nothing about Pookie that confuses and amazes me more than his echolalia. It is by far the aspect of autism that I was least prepared to handle since I had never heard of it. I’m not the only person completely ignorant either. When I sat on the panel discussing autism with teachers from [...]
We always knew that a lot of Pookie’s echolalia is based on things he heard or saw in books and TV. The more I pay attention, the more I feel proud of myself for knowing what he is talking about. Sometimes it is hard to get Pookie to join us in our world, [...]
A frequent echolalia search that leads people to this blog is “Can you stop echolalia?” or something along those lines.
The quick answer is that I don’t know. I remember reading a blog written by a group of college aged kids with Asperger’s Syndrome (they quit updating so I lost track of the URL). [...]
Even though Pookie is getting more vocal nearly everyday, he still goes through a lot of periods of echolalia throughout any day. Two really common time periods are between when he wakes up and when we let him out of bed, and between when he goes to bed and falls asleep.
The first is about the [...]
