I'm reading another book for my EBD class. It focuses on a "class" of diverse students; one is boy with angry and violent outburts, one is a 12 year old pregnant girl, one is a 7 year old girl with TBI, and one is a seven year old boy with autism. The boy with autism and the girl with TBI are very interesting in terms of there speech. The boy, Boo, exhibits delayed echolalia. I had heard of this term and knew what it was but hadn't heard of it in an actual situation. I would assume this is actually pretty common with children with autism. Boo is otherwise nonverbal. Sometimes he will answer questions using mitigated echolalia which is pretty interesting. Boo's receptive language improves every day although his expressive language is almost non-existent. The girl with TBI, Lori, has an above average IQ, speaks well for a child her age, is empathetic and emotionally astute when it comes to other people. Lori can't read at all. She can't recognize letters. She has a developed vocabulary and can comprehend stories that are read to her but her ability to draw a connection between phonemes and graphemes is completely gone.