Word: echolalia
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...Those with classic autism often talk more like a balky tape recorder. They may be limited to echolalia - repeating words from songs, television and the environment - in meaningless ways, or lapse into making growling incoherent sounds. Chandima Rajapatirana, a 32-year-old autistic man from Potomac, Md., writes about how hard it is for him to coordinate the working parts of his body and brain to produce speech. He and others have expressed the anxiety they feel about trying to speak and failing. Jamie Burke, a 19-year-old high school senior from Syracuse, N.Y., puts it this...
...there. Echolalia...
...mortally serious Christian and a ferociously committed artist, a childless woman who lay in her bed and labored every day for six hours a day, all year for more than 40 years, to bring forth a race of poems. The worst of them are idiot brainchildren afflicted with echolalia; the best of them are fierce and radiant creatures of the metaphysical imagination. In Dirge for the New Sunrise, dated the day the bomb fell on Hiroshima, Dame Edith writes in her ultimate Miltonic manner...
While Alice's characters are not obvious symbols, they are so obviously symbolic that the conviction of reality drains out of them. Albee puts the burden of feeling on the language. Still, there is more echolalia than eloquence in the speeches. The cast is a marvel; the play could scarcely survive without these players and the taut direction of Alan Schneider. John Gielgud is the paragon of paragons. His thin but resonant voice invariably astounds one by making an orchestra out of a clarinet, and his speech is kingly...
...squad detective; 2) the 14 Stations of the Cross; 3) the nightly rounds of a nurse; 4) the comfort stations at the subway stops. Every step of the book is dense in meanings and associations, helped on by rhymes, incantatory metrical effects, and puns that ring with a wild echolalia. The result is a fierce compression that largely explains the book's partial success...