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Here's a quote on echolalia from Dr. Stephen Camarata of Vanderbilt. He's one of the foremost researchers in the U.S. on how children acquire language:

Echolalia is the MEANINGLESS repetition of vocalizations produced by another. In autism, the children repeat, either immediately (immediate
echolalia) or later (delayed echolalia) produced by someone else. The key qualitative aspect of this is that it sounds like parroting and the child does not appear to have any idea of the meaning or functional use of the words they echo. Like so many aspects of autism, after you have observed true echolalia, it is unmistakable. In contrast to echolalia are a) unprompted imitation, and b) scripting, which are both common in many late talkers AND ALSO in typically developing children. The key difference is that unprompted imitation and scripting both have a direct or indirect correspondence to the situation and the child will often show some degree of meaning in what they repeat.

Unfortunately, many clinicians seem to be unaware that unprompted imitation and scripting are normal aspects of development and should not be viewed as alarming at all. Indeed, if a child imitates and makes even a small change in the utterance, this is often a precursor to a language burst. So rather than being a behavior to get rid of, the imitation is actually very positive. 
Stephen Camarata[/quote]

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