- Palilalia
Palilalia is the repetition or echoing of one's own spoken words, [ [http://www.tsa-usa.org/Medical/glossary.html Tourette Syndrome: A Glossary of Terms.]
Tourette Syndrome Association . Retrieved on2007-06-10 .] and may sound like stuttering. It is a complextic , likeecholalia andcoprolalia . [ [http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/tourette_primer.htm Primer on Tourette syndrome.] Tourette syndrome Plus. Retrieved on2007-06-10 .] All can be symptoms ofTourette syndrome , [ [http://www.postgradmed.com/issues/2000/10_00/pn_tics.htm Tics and Tourette's syndrome.] Postgraduate Medicine Online. Retrieved on2007-06-10 .]Asperger syndrome , [Attwood, Tony. [http://www.asperger.org/MAAP_Sub_Find_It_-_Publications_Tony_Attwood_Clumsiness_Article.htm Motor clumsiness.] The Source. Retrieved on2007-06-10 .] orautism . [ [http://www.abainternational.org/Journals/view.asp?table=AVB&id=227 Reducing Palilalia by Presenting Tact Corrections to Young Children with Autism.] "Journals of the Association for Behavioral Analysis". Retrieved on2007-06-10 .]Palilalia comes from the Greek πάλιν ("pálin") meaning "again" [el icon [http://www.komvos.edu.gr/dictonlineplsql/simple_search.display_full_lemma?the_lemma_id=31659&target_dict=1 Triantafyllidis Online Dictionary] , "πάλι", Retrieved on
2007-06-11 ] and λαλιά ("laliá") meaning "babbling , meaningless talk" [el icon [http://www.komvos.edu.gr/dictonlineplsql/simple_search.display_full_lemma?the_lemma_id=25040&target_dict=1 Triantafyllidis Online Dictionary] , "λαλιά", Retrieved on2007-06-11 ] (from the verb λαλείν ("laleín") meaning "to talk").References
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