3 year old repeats everything after brother

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Hi All,

My 3 old repeats everything that his brother says. It was ok, in the

beginning to hear him talk. But, now that concerns me. Sometimes, he

even repeats a question you ask him like - Do you want milk? and he

would repeat - Do you want milk? Also, he is very quite at school.

Just talks and plays with 3 kids in class. Does not communicate much

with the teacher. He started talking about 2.5 years. He had 3 words

until then. But at 2.5 he was saying a lot of stuff ( but now looking

back, he was immitating or modelling what we said ).

He however can answer on his own some questions like -

1. WHat is your name?

2. How old are you?

3. DO you want to go in the car or van?

4. what is your teachers name?

etc, ofcourse I had to work on all of the above.

I was trying to look this up on the net and found that it was an

autistic behaviour referred to as Echolalia.

any suggestions

Thanks