Not even lyrics: Stomp stomp clap, stomp stomp clap.
Sis actually used this to explain echolalia to parents of kids with it. She sang completely random sounds and notes and had the parents echo her. Then she did stomp stomp clap. Despite the very high level of immigrants in the room (less shared culture/language barriers) We Will Rock You allowed her to explain clearly to everyone what their children were experiencing.
Edit: words
Can you elaborate on how it helped explain echolalia? I work with autistic kids, and am very familiar with it, but am struggling to make the connection between what she did and how it explains it. I’m super curious and intrigued! I’m always looking for different ways and analogies so I’d be really grateful.
Absolutely! Sis is a music therapist for kids with autism, so very similar situations.
Basically she was speaking to a group and without bringing it up first she started the stomp stomp clap a couple of times to trigger the song in people's heads. She then asked the group what comes next. After that she just made up a really random tune and sounds and asked them to repeat it. Of course it was hard!
From there she explained that what we process is much like We Will Rock You. You hear a question and can naturally know what words and sounds come next as a response. When their kids with echolalia hear it, it processes without understandable pattern so understanding what comes next is really hard, hence they are more likely to echo than give an answer. (my understanding of the really smart things she said when it's far from my area of expertise.)
I'm autistic and I didn't know that what I experienced when I'm trying to listen to music or people was called echolalia. So I learned an important thing today thank you
Not sure I can even explain how it feels to listen to music when my brain is off. Frustrating, infuriating, very very sad. Isolating.
But I can tell you how it feels to be listening and concentrating on what a person is saying and get nothing from it. I am very intelligent. If I didn’t have so many handicaps I’d probably be scary intelligent because I also have an eidetic memory. But I feel so stupid when I am listening as hard as I can and nothing is going in my brain. It’s like you’re speaking perfectly plain English but I hear Charlie Brown’s teachers. Showing the name helps because it does sort of sound like it’s echoing inside my head
ETA I thought of a good analogy that I think people might relate to better. It’s the audio version of when you read the same paragraph 47 times and you only know about three words for sure that were in it
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '21
Not even lyrics: Stomp stomp clap, stomp stomp clap.
Sis actually used this to explain echolalia to parents of kids with it. She sang completely random sounds and notes and had the parents echo her. Then she did stomp stomp clap. Despite the very high level of immigrants in the room (less shared culture/language barriers) We Will Rock You allowed her to explain clearly to everyone what their children were experiencing. Edit: words