What is echopraxia?
echopathy or echomimia is an involuntary repetition of words or another person's behavior. When the words are imitated, it can be defined as echolalia. When a person compulsively repeats someone else's actions, it is called echopraxia. People can suffer either echolalia and echopraxia or simply echopathies. The first is annoying, often teasing a gesture, which often occurs among school children, especially siblings. In the latter movement or sounds that are repeated, they are not deliberately and certainly do not have teasing or bothering others.
The distinction is valuable because there are people who suffer from echopraxia or more generally echopathies that can live in very mainstream environments. People with Tourette syndrome can suffer this situation and can be picked up in an echopractic way in school meeting other students. Obviously, teaching other students in the class does not matter that this behavior is important for the success of mainstreaming.
should not be assumed that echopraxia suffers only people with Tourette Syndrome and all people with Tourette's do not suffer. There are many diseases or conditions where echopraxia may occur. Some people with autism are echopractic and sometimes present the state in people with schizophrenia. Other diseases associated with echopathy include ganser disorder and occasionally a large depressive disorder. From time to time, medical literature represents information about others who suffered from echopraxia, and this includes those who have suffered brain tumors and some types of seizure disorders.
Due to the diversity of conditions associated with echopraxia, it is difficult to say exactly what this causes in all cases or how it is best handled. Most often it is to treat basic diseases in the best way to minimize echopathy. Parents can consider especially difficult to help children with this condition when they talk to doctors. Any demonstration noEducating the movements or behavior of parents could result in a new tik on the part of an echopractic child.
Children, mostly for their advantage, are also very attentive and may notice small movements in others that could easily turn into a recurring movement. Of course, it can be said that for everyone, the state of undesirable repeated movements is extremely difficult. This is especially the case, because many times people with this condition are quite aware that behavior is unusual, perhaps unpleasant and very often attracts undesirable attention.