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Episode 13: Embracing the WHOLE Voice: How Natural Language Acquisition Supports Autistic Language Development
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Marge Blanc, M. A., CC C-SLP and Author of Natural Language Acquisition
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Introduction to Echolalia
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Speaker
What know from the work of Barry Prasant from those years before is that echolalia, delayed echolalia as we call it, the stuff that you say again later, is the first stage of language development.
Delayed Echolalia in Language Development
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Speaker
It's the first stage of gestalt language development. And so if we try to, or anybody tries to extinguish it, it not only says to the child that they're wrong, right but it just stops that language development in its tracks.
DIR Sessions and Language Development
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And the first thing DIR tells you is if you're playing with your kid and you're trying to do a little bit more of a formal DIR session, you're going to mimic their sounds. You're going mimic it because that helps them understand that what they're saying is valid.
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Speaker
And that was a huge piece of like really starting to see language process progress with it.