Child with ASD repeating last part of own words.

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Hi, my DS aged 7 has started to repeat the end part of how own words, for example he will say " mum earlier when en en I went to the park ark I saw a dog og og.

He has not always done it but it's been a few months that he has been doing this now. He has a history of phonological speech disorder but falls within the average age on speech assessments now.

We are seeing his speech therapist next week for an assessment of his higher language skills so I will mention it to her then. But I was just wondering what it is? Is it a form of echolalia, or a stim or a stutter or something else. I've never heard any other child do this, not even at the asd group that he attends.

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I should also add that he doesn't do it constantly but very often. It is worse after school or if he is telling me about something that has happened.

He has done it less over the Easter break.

My daughter has Tourette's syndrome and there is a tic like this.
I think it is called echolalia yes.

My 9yo dd does something similar, has done for a while now (since aged 7). She repeats the last half of the last sentence, under her breath (mimes it). This happens more when she is recounting something that happened to her/is excited etc. SALT and Paed didn't make much of it. I think it's like a verbal tic, not uncommon in ASD.

Do you think its uncontrollable or do you think he does it on purpose? does he appear to notice he's doing it?

He doesn't appear to notice he does it. He says it all at the same volume. It can take him so long to get out what he's trying to say lately. I have mild tics so maybe it is a tic.

Hi, his literacy is around a level behind where it should be. He's improving with his reading but his writing is terrible. His vocabulary seems around normal, a few odd words for his age and uses more words than necessary I think but seems about normal.

It sounds like he's stuck on the word I think . When he starts with park ark if I say ark he will repeat it once then stop and move on.

Polter my DD is 9 and also did this...she's extremely gifted in literacy. Confused my DD's level was behind until she reached year 4 when she shot ahead with no warning, she had echolalia like your son's too she'd whisper it though like "I've been to the fair fair"...She was in effect playing with the sounds and the consonants....almost like tasting them...she got pleasure from the sounds of the words.

She'd sit on the bus aged about 6 or 7 and read the signs such as "Seating Capacity" and then split it up and put the emphasis on the "wrong" syllable like "Seating Cap A City"...she read instructions a lot on the back of packaging and also catalogues...the descriptions in Screwfix Direct were as interesting to her as any novel....she's 9 now and in year 5....reading Wuthering Heights this week and her teacher says her spelling and grammar is as good as her own or better. She has no dx but is pretty obviously to me on the spectrum....mildly so but there all the same.

This is slightly different but 5yo DD often replaces words with actions (despite having a good volcabulary). For instance "mummy, can I have some ".

It's on my list of things to mention when she has her first apt next month. It's quite an endearing little habit TBH, but definitely quirky.

My nearly six year old does the same. My son seems to like hearing the noise the sound makes but I will bring it up with his SALT amd also GP when I ask for a referral to a developmental pead.

DS also mines some words. Like he will say " mum can I have the and I have to guess what the hell he wants. He gets frustrated if I don't know what he means. Yes definitely quirky.

That's interesting that your DS was behind in literacy awfulMaureen DS has improved lots in the last year, he was still on p levels last year so has made a dramatic improvement even though he is still behind where he should be.

Polter yes! That was how DD learned all hers...she's top of the class now. :)

With the splitting of words like capacity...she'd pronounce the sections in as different a way as possible to the actual pronunciation... Capa and City...making new words out of old.