Treatment of Echolalia using Cues-Pause-Point in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Keywords:
Autism, Echolalia, Cue-pause-pointAbstract
Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by impairment in social communication and social interaction, and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interest, and activities. This disorder occurs in early childhood. The main symptoms are usually related to the delay in language comprehension and expression, including communication. About 75% of individuals with autism have echolalia. At the present, the exact cause of echolalia is unknown. However, it is hypothesized to be associated with dopaminergic dysregulation and frontal lobe dysfunction, which is a neurological mechanism that leads to this symptom. Training with the cue-pause-point method is a behavioral technique to treat echolalia. Several studies have shown that this type of training is effective and be able to reduce echolalia immediately. Speech-language pathologists play an important role in the treatment of echolalia in children with autism.
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