“Thank you so much for your insightful and informative podcasts!All of your themes resonate with me, your guests and conversations are delightful and wide ranging, and there are always important points to ponder.
5-2-22
Congratulations Dave and Barry on your 50th podcast! I have enjoyed many and look forward to hearing more.
I was especially interested in # 45 on echolalia and unconventional verbal behavior. Learning from and teaching echolalic children has been my favorite aspect of a long SLP/ASD consulting career, even since before I read Barry’s “new” research in the early 1980’s. I view echolalia as a neurologically based difference infused with considerable communicative intent that benefits from modification not extinction.
Over several decades of therapy and consultation with sighted and blind autistic echolalic children I have had success with a language modeling approach initially focused on early communicative functions and play—and progressing to work on pronoun reversal, questions and answers and perseveration—with attention to emotional regulation and independence along the way.
Thanks again for your wonderful podcast! I’m especially benefitting from the discussions with autistic adults. Elizabeth Field”
E. I. Field via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/02/22