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Pronoun Reversal
by Dawn Gumersall MC, CCC-SLP
Pronoun reversal is a common characteristic in Autism Spectrum Disorders. I and you are particularly affected. Research suggests this stems from the role of echolalia, or lack of self-identification. Children with ASD often, through imitation, learn language in "chunks". A child may learn phrases such as, "Here I go!", or, "I want ___ please", but without functional understanding or use of the individual words alone. That is, these phrases are used as one meaningful utterance, but the child often doesn't use the words I, want, go to build other phrases. Therefore, the child may learn the phrase, "Do you want juice?" from having heard it, but then use it to mean "I want juice." The difficulty continues as we try to model pronoun usage for our children as we might for developing other language features. I can model, "more juice", or "red car", but when I try to model a pronoun "I want" it refers back to me, not the child.
So what to do?!......................................
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