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Yewdall, who had limited verbal skills, often repeated words and phrases she heard other people say, a condition called echolalia.

The repetition of speech is called echolalia and is a common sign of autism.

His language is limited to nonsensical word groupings and repeating what is said to him — an echolalia that is a hallmark of autism.

When Leo Kanner, an Austrian-American psychiatrist and physician, first described autism in 1943, he wrote about children with “extreme autistic aloneness,” “delayed echolalia” and an “anxiously obsessive desire for the maintenance of sameness.”

Has there ever been such a deafening storm of political echolalia?