Re: Palalalia (or maybe it's Palalia) - anyone else's child

[Guest guest]

She was very helpful. Because she's a speech pathologist and not a

Dev Ped, psychologist, neuro, etc, she can't dx Asperger's, and she

did her best to let the Drs who read the report know what she was

seeing. She specifically wrote the report as if he was already dx'd,

hoping that the Drs would notice the red flags. Unfortunately, no one

noticed. She was very happy that I called to ask her about it, and at

that point (since I'd brought it up), she told me what she thought and

that she'd even discussed it with the head of the stuttering dept.

They both thought it sounded like a sx of Asperger's. She forwarded a

copy to the Dev Ped initially, and when I s/w her and asked her to

tell the Dev Ped what she was seeing (the sxs as she perceived them),

she agreed to e-mail her.

When she s/w me at the eval, she told me that he needed speech, and

that the school should be able to do it if the therapist was

experienced with that type of dysfluency. She recommended normal

speech therapy for the problems with his " R's " (after a vowel) but

that the speech therapist would have to do something different on a

1-on-1 basis for the dysfluency. She didn't want the therapist to

draw too much attn to it due to his existing anxiety and

perfectionistic traits, as it could make it worse. That's why I'm

asking what others have been doing. I just wanted to get an idea as to

whether or not you just let it go as we've been doing or if your

speech pathologists had done something different.

Thanks.

Debbie

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> You would think the speech pathologist at CHOP would have been more

helpful.

[Guest guest]

When I first read about echolia in one of the books, I thought to

myself " CJ doesn't do that " , but then I started thinking about the

fact that he has been repeating the ends of words. So I called the

CHOP speech pathologist who did the eval to ask her if his particular

dysfluency is ever seen with Aspergers, since repeating words are a

sx. I thought that if some people repeat words that they've heard,

maybe he's just repeating the ends of words that he's just heard

himself say. I was surprised when she said it was, but then again I

wasn't too surprised. I think I was hoping she'd say no, but then

again, I had that gut feeling that I was on the right track.

Debbie

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> Isn't it like echolia?