Written by Eugene Tng, QASP-S, Programme Director at ABA LABS You ask your child, "Do you want water?" and they reply, "Do you want water?" Or they recite whole lines from a cartoon at dinner time, word for word, in the same voice as the character. This repeating of words and phrases is called echolalia. It can be puzzling, and some parents worry it means their child is not really talking. In fact, echolalia is often an important step in language development, and it usually h
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