Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Echolalia
Echoing another person's speech
HP:0010529
What it means
Echolalia is the automatic imitative repetition of sounds, words, or phrases in the absence of explicit awareness. The repeated words or phrases are typically odd or used in a non-social manner. These can be words or phrases that the affected individual has heard or invented.
Rare diseases that can present with this22
Very common80–99%
9- 17p11.2microduplication syndrome
- Baraitser-Winter cerebrofrontofacial syndrome
- Behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia
- Epidermolysis bullosa simplex with muscular dystrophy
- Filippi syndrome
- Kleefstra syndrome due to 9q34 microdeletion
- Mietens syndrome
- Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome
- Pitt-Hopkins syndrome
Common30–79%
6Sometimes5–29%
6The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Echologia · Echophrasia · Repeated speech
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