How To Diagnose And Treat Echolalia

At Home Training

If the patient is seeing a speech therapist for echolalia, they should receive homework to do when they leave so they can do at home training. Continuing on the exercises being taught by the therapist is very important, as the more they practice, the more their brain will be retrained to respond appropriately. Patients may only see a speech therapist once a week, but between sessions, they should be continuing the lessons. Without continuing the exercises, the patient is more likely to forget what they learned and go back to old speech patterns. This means the therapy will take much longer and not have as much of an impact as it could on the patient's speech and language patterns. If the therapist does not already have a physical paper, patients or another party should make sure to take notes during the session, or specifically request instructions to be printed off.

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