Functional echolalia in autism speech Verbal formulae and repeated prior utterances as communicative and cognitive strategies
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DOI码：10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1010615
所属单位：School of Foreign Languages,
教研室：Department of English
发表刊物：Frontiers in Psychology
刊物所在地：Switzerland
关键字：Autism Spectrum Disorder, linguistic units, socio-communicative formulae, socio-cultural emblems, function, Elicitation
摘要：Echolalia, the echoing of prior speech, is a typical characteristic of autism (Kanner 1946; Prizant and Rydell 1984). Long considered meaningless repetition to be avoided, echolalia may in fact be used functionally in autism (Roberts 2014; Sterponi and Shankey 2014). This paper explores the functions of echolalia by children with autism. Based on two prior studies (Dornelas 2018; Pascual et al. 2017), we designed an elicitation task involving images of 12 professions (teacher) and 12 objects (birthday cake) commonly associated with given conventionalized expressions in Mandarin (e.g., “sheng ri kuai le!” ‘Happy birthday!’). Eight Chinese children with autism were asked to name and describe these images. All our participants produced a relatively high proportion of echolalia, mostly for naming, description, and topic development, a small percentage being used as conversation maintenance strategy or as cognitive strategy. This indicates that echolalia is often used communicatively in autism speech.
合写作者：Todd Oakley
第一作者：谢帆
论文类型：期刊论文
通讯作者：Esther Pascual
学科门类：文学
文献类型：J
是否译文：否
发表时间：2023-02-21
收录刊物：SSCI
发布期刊链接：https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1010615/full