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Look up: echolalia

  1. echolalia
    [n] - (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Echolalia
    A clinical sign. The automatic repetition of all that the patient hears. Frequently found in transcortical motor aphasia and Tourette's Syndrome.
    Found on http://www.smithsrisca.demon.co.uk/neuro

  3. Echolalia
    Repetitive words or phrases that autistics may say, sometimes hours after the event. Sometimes this will just be an echoed word, and some autistics will mimic whole sentences or even conversations, and they may even use convincing accents and the voices of other people. Echolalia is a normal developmental stage that children go through before learning to speak, but in some autistics it is prolonged.
    Found on http://www.insidethebubble.co.uk/glossar

  4. Echolalia
    Alternative spelling for echolia.
    Found on http://www.researchautism.net/glossary.i

  5. Echolalia
    The repetition of speech just spoken by somebody else in an involuntary and meaningless way. People with echolalia may repeat a word, phrase, or entire sentences. Also known as echologia, echophasia, echophrasia, echo speech and mimic speech
    Found on http://www.dwp.gov.uk/medical/med_condit

  6. Echolalia
    Echolalia: The involuntary parrotlike repetition (echoing) of a word or phrase just spoken by another person. Echolalia is a feature of schizophrenia (especially the catatonic form), Tourette syndrome, and some other disorders. From echo + the Greek lalia, a form of speech.
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  7. echolalia
    the pathological repetition by imitation of the speech of another. Category: Medicine
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  8. Echolalia
    A speech disorder in which the person inappropriately and automatically repeats the last words he or she has heard. Palilalia is a form of echolalia in which the last syllable heard is repeated endlessly.
    Found on http://www.priory.com/gloss.htm

  9. echolalia
    A disorder of speech where there is an involuntary repetition several times of the same word. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  10. echolalia
    noun (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. echolalia
    noun an infant`s repetition of sounds uttered by others
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. Echolalia
    `Echolalia` is the repetition of vocalizations made by another person. Echolalia is present in autism, Tourette syndrome, Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, developmental disability, schizophrenia and, occasionally, other forms of psychopathology. When done involuntarily, it is considered a tic. The word `echolalia` is derived from the Greek meaning `echo` or `to repeat`, and (`laliá`) meaning `babbling, meaningless talk` (of onomatopoeic origin from th...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echolalia

  13. echolalia
    (ek″o-la´le-ә) stereotyped repetition of another person's words or phrases, seen in some types of schizophrenia, particularly catatonic schizophrenia; in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome; and in neurological disorders such as some kinds of aphasia.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  14. echolalia
    (from the article `autism`) ...to parents or certain adults often develops later. Speech develops slowly and abnormally (it is often atonal and arrhythmic) or not at all. It may ... Echolalia (a compulsion to repeat words heard) and palilalia (spontaneous repetition of one`s own words) are two distinctive symptoms of Tourette ... [2 ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/8

  15. echolalia
    echolalia Habitual or pathological repetition of others' words or remarks.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  16. echolalia
    Involuntary parrotlike repetition of a word or sentence just spoken by another person. Usually seen with schizophrenia. Syn: echo reaction, echo speech, echophrasia [echo + G. lalia, a form of speech]
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