
My child repeats everything we say? Is he autistic?
This was a question I received from a concerned mom. She believed her son to be a bright child and understood so much. Her only complaint was that he repeated everything. If she said, "*Ben let's go home" he would repeat "go home." She felt he didn't have any real sentences of his own - only words from others that he would repeat. Before contacting me, she did what most of us do when we have a medical concern- turn to GOOGLE! The proper label for her son's repeating of w