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7086 Language Development in ASD: Echolalia to Self-Generated Language [CRC Session]

Saturday, July 26, 2014: 10:15 AM-11:30 AM

202 (Indiana Convention Center)

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What to do about echolalia! This session will demonstrate how echolalia is the first step in our kids' development of flexible, self-generated language. It presents a proven system of seeing how echolalia communicates, and supporting kids through it towards flexible, original language — as a part of true language development! Language Development in Autism: Echolalia to Self-Generated Language

What to do about echolalia! This session will demonstrate how echolalia is the first step in our kids' development of flexible, self-generated language. It will present a proven system of seeing how echolalia communicates, and supporting kids through it towards flexible, original language — as a part of true language development!

1. Attendees will be able to recognize the communicative value of echolalia, and discern the functions of echolalic utterances.

2. Attendees will be able to assess the language development level of children who use echolalia.

3. Attendees will be able to support language development in children who use echolalia.

Echolalia is well-recognized as a characteristic of ASD, but there is a lack of knowledge in the autism community about how echolalia is part of true language development — in our kids! With the proliferation of media language available to them, our kids' echolalia often sounds minimally-communicative to our ears. But rather than stopping echolalia or trying to teach language scripts, this presentation will demonstrate how we can support our kids best by providing them language models they can use naturally to jump-start a true language development process. This presentation will give parents, educators, and Speech-Language Pathologist what they need to know!

Learning Objectives:

Attendees will be able to apply language development for children who use echolalia.
Attendees will be able to recognize the communicative value of echolalia, and discern the functions of echolalic utterances.
Attendees will be able to assess the language development level of children who use echolalia.

Content Area: Communication

Presenters:

Marge Blanc, M.A., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
Communication Development Center

Marge Blanc is a clinical Speech-Language Pathologist, and Director of the Communication Development Center in Madison, WI. She is an author and her articles appear in the Autism Asperger's Digest.

Kristen Powell Lee, M.S., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
Indiana University Health North Hospital

Kristen Powell Lee is a clinical Speech-Language Pathologist providing communication and swallowing services to children and adults at Indiana University Health North Hospital in Carmel, Indiana. She worked at the Communication Development Center from 2008-2010, and continues to apply principles of NLA with many of her patients today.

Barry M. Prizant, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Director Childhood Communication Services, Adjunct Professor Brown University
Childhood Communication Services

Dr. Barry Prizant is Adjunct Professor at Brown University and Director at Childhood Communication Services in Cranston, RI. For 40 years, Barry has served as an international scholar, researcher and consultant to autistic individuals, and has published more than 130 articles, chapters and 4 books.

Megan K. Snow, M.S., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
EBS Healthcare

Megan is a clinical Speech-Language Pathologist working in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education in McMinnville, Oregon. She worked with the Communication Development Center (CDC) from 2001-2008, and currently does consulting work with CDC from her home in Oregon.

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