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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 59859" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Oh boy, does this sound familiar!</p><p></p><p>difficult child 1 used to do this a lot, including various 'battle noises' as we called it, as if he were replaying the Battle of Britain in his head, all day every day. I remember him doing this when we were in Greece at the time. I was trying to videotape the trip and all I could hear was difficult child 1, 'fighting'. Now when we play the tape, all we can hear is me telling difficult child 1 to shut up. At the time, of course, we'd been assured that he only had ADHD, nothing like autism at all. oh no.</p><p></p><p>Then difficult child 3. First no speech, then 'jargon' (which his sister called "talking in scribble"). The jargon speech was just jumbled, often-repeated syllables but usually just junk sounds. Then we got the echolalia, especially movie speak or repeating words (and accompanying sounds) from songs on the radio. We got the other echolalia, where instead of answering a question he would repeat it. This actually seemed to be a trend towards constant improvement in communication, because from that point we could direct his echolalia to add on the answer, as well as his repeat of the question.</p><p></p><p>The movie speak - because he was obsessive about educational or English teaching TV shows, he began to repeat rote phrases. Then he began to repeat text from the social stories I'd written, which directed me to write more stories which directed HIM towards more appropriate dialogue. He didn't always understand, but we managed to program him with the right responses to "What is your name?" What is your phone number?" "Where do you live?"</p><p></p><p>Then he would watch TV shows, especially those we had on DVD, with subtitles on. he would watch them over and over, we're fairly certain he was studying the combination of sound; social context; the look of the written text; the meaning of the words. Then he would quote huge slabs of text. He would read aloud - absolutely anything. Constantly. Even 'silent reading' at school, he couldn't stay silent.</p><p></p><p>Now, in his room, he 'talks' to his games. he even talks to a movie character sometimes. And yes, sometimes it's constant. If interrupted, he MUST finish his sentence. he can't simply stop, even if the rest of the sentence has now become irrelevant. husband does this too. So does easy child 2/difficult child 2. I think I'm beginning to do it in self defence - either that, or they infected me.</p><p></p><p>I do believe it's a facet of the autism. It also has seemed to evolve as his skills develop. It increases in sophistication. And it does also give unexpected skills, when they use a movie quote as an answer in a social situation, increasingly appropriately.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 59859, member: 1991"] Oh boy, does this sound familiar! difficult child 1 used to do this a lot, including various 'battle noises' as we called it, as if he were replaying the Battle of Britain in his head, all day every day. I remember him doing this when we were in Greece at the time. I was trying to videotape the trip and all I could hear was difficult child 1, 'fighting'. Now when we play the tape, all we can hear is me telling difficult child 1 to shut up. At the time, of course, we'd been assured that he only had ADHD, nothing like autism at all. oh no. Then difficult child 3. First no speech, then 'jargon' (which his sister called "talking in scribble"). The jargon speech was just jumbled, often-repeated syllables but usually just junk sounds. Then we got the echolalia, especially movie speak or repeating words (and accompanying sounds) from songs on the radio. We got the other echolalia, where instead of answering a question he would repeat it. This actually seemed to be a trend towards constant improvement in communication, because from that point we could direct his echolalia to add on the answer, as well as his repeat of the question. The movie speak - because he was obsessive about educational or English teaching TV shows, he began to repeat rote phrases. Then he began to repeat text from the social stories I'd written, which directed me to write more stories which directed HIM towards more appropriate dialogue. He didn't always understand, but we managed to program him with the right responses to "What is your name?" What is your phone number?" "Where do you live?" Then he would watch TV shows, especially those we had on DVD, with subtitles on. he would watch them over and over, we're fairly certain he was studying the combination of sound; social context; the look of the written text; the meaning of the words. Then he would quote huge slabs of text. He would read aloud - absolutely anything. Constantly. Even 'silent reading' at school, he couldn't stay silent. Now, in his room, he 'talks' to his games. he even talks to a movie character sometimes. And yes, sometimes it's constant. If interrupted, he MUST finish his sentence. he can't simply stop, even if the rest of the sentence has now become irrelevant. husband does this too. So does easy child 2/difficult child 2. I think I'm beginning to do it in self defence - either that, or they infected me. I do believe it's a facet of the autism. It also has seemed to evolve as his skills develop. It increases in sophistication. And it does also give unexpected skills, when they use a movie quote as an answer in a social situation, increasingly appropriately. Marg [/QUOTE]
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