Example Sentences

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At the conference, I interviewed, through typing, a teenager named Matt who spoke only in echolalic phrases — things he had heard and couldn’t help repeating.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2015

Jodie had echolalic language, a common feature of autism: She could repeat back, with great accuracy, things she had heard, but she could not use her own words to communicate.

From Newsweek