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- adjective clinical psychology Of or pertaining to
echolalia .
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Examples
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– I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps – then
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That will disappoint the history-challenged right-wingers whose patriotic posturing is limited to speaking in their odd pseudo-military lingo, that echolalic Esperanto for fantasy revolutionaries.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The New War of Independence -- Against Corporate Politics RJ 2011
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That will disappoint the history-challenged right-wingers whose patriotic posturing is limited to speaking in their odd pseudo-military lingo, that echolalic Esperanto for fantasy revolutionaries.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The New War of Independence -- Against Corporate Politics RJ 2011
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On the one hand, I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps.
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It is, however, overly self-referential, and, insomuch as it gives greater weight to certain “types” of people and posts, it ends up becoming necessarily echolalic more often than not.
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Here, the checks and inhibitions are easily accomplished, unless disease in some manner prevents them; but there are strong indications that a "spirit" -- at least when communicating -- cannot control his stream of thinking to the same extent; and that, if it is constantly interrupted -- by questions, etc., as it usually is -- it tends to break up and become automatic, echolalic, or useless.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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She was prodigiously verbal but it is possible she was echolalic and because she was SO young for the amount of words she was using we didn't really notice. (seems likely in retrospect)
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Since there are activities that aren't perseverative and speech that isn't echolalic, I suppose a warrior mom would be struggling mightily to erase the "bad" and bring out the minimal amount of "good" behaviors.
Baltiblogs 2010
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Since there are activities that aren't perseverative and speech that isn't echolalic, I suppose a warrior mom would be struggling mightily to erase the "bad" and bring out the minimal amount of "good" behaviors.
Blogtimore, Hon 2010
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Claire talks about the progress her son made, from non-verbal to echolalic to mainstream with support to preparing for college.
Autism Hub LB/RB Team 2010
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