The Role of Echolalia in Regulation and Processing

Autistic people often use echolalia to regulate or process overstimulation of sounds. Echolalia is the repetition of sounds and words and phrases. My wife's mobile phone rings sometimes out of nowhere as soon as I was ringing I will literally repeat it, he says. He also finds his son singing the same line from a song over and over again like a broken record can be another form ofEcholalia.