Echolalia

Douglas S. Mayen 12th Grade English Ms. Brophy 11 March 2016 Xenophobia - Fear of the Unknown Ignorance has played a major role in a multitude of events that happened throughout history. Ignorance can be cause due to a number of reasons; being oblivious about a certain subject, not trying to understand the other point of view about the subject, to caught up in one’s own life to think about others, ignoring factual statements so their beliefs would not be considered wrong, etc. Being ignorant is…

In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck depicts a realistic and dreary portrait of America in the 1930’s. He illustrates a world where the American Dream is just an illusion. During the Great Depression -1930’s- many people were not as ambitious to achieve their aspirations. However, this is not the case for our protagonists George and Lennie. Two men with inverse personalities and appearances strive to conquer their hopes under difficult circumstances. Tragically, moments away from achieving their…

Do we as humans realize just how vulnerable we are? How about those with families that participate in school functions and leisure activities after school? Do they too realize how bless they are with that society considers them to be a “normal” family? But do families that may have an autistic family member realize just how lucky they are, they too have been blessed. A quote from Temple Gradin, an animal behavior expert and author of The Autistic Brain states, “I am different, not less.” To…

Echolalia and echopraxia meaning mimicking speech and movements of other people may also occur (“Schizophrenia”). Undifferentiated schizophrenia is when people who are diagnosed result in fluctuating symptoms, which makes it difficult to diagnose which type…

Dysarthria is a speech disorder caused by a stoke, cerebrum damage, tumors, or Parkinson's disease. Dysarthria damages movements in muscles used for speech production. These muscles incorporate the tongue, vocal folds, lips and diaphragm. Dysarthria is weakened in communication due to shortcoming, loss of motion and incoordination of speech. It influences your pitch, loudness, voice quality, prosody, respiration and articulation. There are numerous sorts of dysarthria's, which are…

Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness with variable expression and uncertain etiology. It is a mental disorder characterized by severe breakdowns in thought patterns, emotions, and perceptions. Only 1% of the population is diagnosed with this illness and it’s a condition difficult to treat and understand most of the type. Anyone would see a schizophrenic person and immediately perceive them as weird and not be able to carry out a normal conversation with them. A person will be at higher…

children commonly show various levels of impaired or delayed language acquisition and comprehension” (Koegel et al. 2), “about 40 percent do not speak words at all” (Allman 17). While some children may be mute, some are echolalic (Koegel et al. 2). Echolalia is “the uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person” (Dictionary.com). This means that a child with ASD may repeat a question or phrase that has been said to them, rather than forming a new sentence or…

1) When suspected of having Alzheimer 's disease you must go get evaluated by a physician. They professional will run diagnostic test to know whether they have a diagnosis of Alzheimer 's or not. It is to be noted that to officially know if a patient has Alzheimer 's is to run a brain autopsy on the patient. The examiner will look at brain tissue see if plaque and tangles exist in the brain. It is after this we can officially know if a person has the disease or not after they are dead. 2) The…

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is described by the DSM-V as a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by the manifestation of deficiencies in communication (both verbal and non-verbal), social interactions, and by the occurrence of repetitive patterns of behavior (31). Being a spectrum disorder, autism has many varying degrees of severity, symptoms, and behaviors. It is not diagnosed to a specific set of behaviors, but rather to behaviors that contribute to the impairment of social…

Research supports that females with ASD display more severe symptoms (Nydén et al., 2000), which could support the idea that both X-chromosomes in females have to be mutated in order for females to develop the disorder. Because the females that are diagnosed with ASD tend to be classified as low functioning more often than males, females require more abnormalities in their genes in order to manifest the symptoms of ASD (Szatmari et al., 2012). In research that looks at family genetic history of…