CHALLENGE April 2nd Challenge…. A call to this community and beyond for Autism Awareness.

Paradox916 said:
Here a reverb I have been working on based off the Effects layouts Vorticity board (EQD levitation) with a switchable pre/post decay effects loop (Originally I was trying to find a good buffer but never quite came up with a good enough one that worked well in the pre decay position) Naming it the Echolalia for my Daughter as part of her condition has pathological Echolalia.

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Many children on the autism spectrum use echolalia, which means they repeat others’ words or sentences. They might repeat the words of familiar people (parents, teachers), or they might repeat sentences from their favourite video.
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When children repeat words right after they hear them, it’s known as immediate echolalia. When they repeat words at a later time, it’s known as delayed echolalia. As a result of the time delay, delayed echolalia may seem very unusual because these sentences are used out of context. For example, a child might enjoy a song his teacher sang at circle time, and then later ask to sing it at home by saying “It’s circle time” instead of saying the name of the song.

While it might be difficult to figure out what a child is trying to say when he or she uses echolalia, learning a little bit about this type of speech can help you figure out the meaning behind his or her message.

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Children on the autism spectrum use Echolalia because they learn language differently.

Typically developing children tend to begin learning language by first understanding and using single words, and then they gradually string them together to make phrases and sentences.

Children on the autism spectrum often follow a different route. Their first attempts at language may be longer “chunks” of language (phrases or sentences), which they are not able to break down into smaller parts. These chunks are more grammatically complicated than they could put together themselves, and they don’t understand what the individual words mean.
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There may be times when children use echolalia to soothe themselves when they’re upset or to rehearse something, and in those cases echolalia may not be intended to send a message to someone. But there are also many reasons why children use echolalia for a communicative purpose,



I hope to see some cool stuff this month! Hopefully I can get a demo of this done in the near future.
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Lovely build and an excellent description of echolalia dude. Thomas uses echolalia to learn to speak. It's tough figuring out what he means when it sounds like he's using an out of context phrase but it always means something to him.
 
Paradox916 said:
Here a reverb I have been working on based off the Effects layouts Vorticity board (EQD levitation) with a switchable pre/post decay effects loop (Originally I was trying to find a good buffer but never quite came up with a good enough one that worked well in the pre decay position) Naming it the Echolalia for my Daughter as part of her condition has pathological Echolalia.

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Many children on the autism spectrum use echolalia, which means they repeat others’ words or sentences. They might repeat the words of familiar people (parents, teachers), or they might repeat sentences from their favourite video.
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When children repeat words right after they hear them, it’s known as immediate echolalia. When they repeat words at a later time, it’s known as delayed echolalia. As a result of the time delay, delayed echolalia may seem very unusual because these sentences are used out of context. For example, a child might enjoy a song his teacher sang at circle time, and then later ask to sing it at home by saying “It’s circle time” instead of saying the name of the song.

While it might be difficult to figure out what a child is trying to say when he or she uses echolalia, learning a little bit about this type of speech can help you figure out the meaning behind his or her message.

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Children on the autism spectrum use Echolalia because they learn language differently.

Typically developing children tend to begin learning language by first understanding and using single words, and then they gradually string them together to make phrases and sentences.

Children on the autism spectrum often follow a different route. Their first attempts at language may be longer “chunks” of language (phrases or sentences), which they are not able to break down into smaller parts. These chunks are more grammatically complicated than they could put together themselves, and they don’t understand what the individual words mean.
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There may be times when children use echolalia to soothe themselves when they’re upset or to rehearse something, and in those cases echolalia may not be intended to send a message to someone. But there are also many reasons why children use echolalia for a communicative purpose,



I hope to see some cool stuff this month! Hopefully I can get a demo of this done in the near future.
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My son is high functioning, but has anxiety disorder too. Echolalia is definitely a thing at my house, even though I never actually knew the term for it before today. He also watches the same chunks of videos over and over again, which I think is a coping mechanism because he latches onto those speech/song snippets repeating them immediately and later, sometimes even acting them out.

I dig your trademark artistic style and super clean builds, this being no exception. Keep up the excellent work.
 
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SillyOctpuss said:
Lovely build and an excellent description of echolalia dude. Thomas uses echolalia to learn to speak. It's tough figuring out what he means when it sounds like he's using an out of context phrase but it always means something to him.
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cwsquared said:
My son is high functioning, but has anxiety disorder too. Echolalia is definitely a thing at my house, even though I never actually knew the term for it before today. He also watches the same chunks of videos over and over again, which I think is a coping mechanism because he latches onto those speach/song snippets repeating them immediately and later, sometimes even acting them out.

I dig your trademark artistic style and super clean builds, this being no exception. Keep up the excellent work.
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Everyone on the spectrum is a little or even vastly different but there are certain hallmarks that span the gambit, and this is a common one that you don’t really ever see talked about but I feel is crucial in understanding this and it’s pathology.
 
My son Thomas has used Echolalia and also Gestalt language processing to learn how to speak. It's been fascinating watching the progression of his language skills as it's totally different from 'normal' kids. I find it interesting to see him take different phrases and keep repeating them until he understands them and then starts combining elements to make something new. This is an interesting article on Gestalt language processing

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Gestalt Language Processing and AAC - AssistiveWare

Gestalt Language Processing is getting a lot of buzz in the field of AAC. AssistiveWare Support Team member and part-time AAC user Lily Konyn dives deeper into what it means and, most importantly, how it might influence our AAC tools and supports.
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I posted a build report of my effort. My effort to get more people in this thread is to post the pics of the custom dual gang pot I made for the build. I needed a dual gang 10k pot for the build but one needs to be logarithmic and the other antilogarithmic. I used two pots. The first a dual 10ka and a regular 10ka pot. Since the gang facing the board needs to be a C taper and is upsidedown we will use the single 10ka as our sacrificial lamb. Let's take the cover off and open the tabs to pull it apart.
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Once the bottom is apart we now need to seperate the the wafer from the shaft. We need to slowly and carefully break away the black plastic retainer connecting the shaft to the wiper. Go slow and don't touch the track. That black ring on the wafer is the track that carries the resistance, and it scratches easily.
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Now that it's removed I trim the legs and add diode legs that will be soldered to the board.
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Now we need to open the dual gang pot and remove the bottom wafer that we will be replacing.
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And now I put the new one in and close it up. Since the bottom gang is facing the opposite direction the top and they are mirrored in reverse, the A taper is now a C taper and we have made our custom dual taper 10k pot. Here it is all put together with the legs all trimmed to match.
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Guardians of the analog said:
I posted a build report of my effort. My effort to get more people in this thread is to post the pics of the custom dual gang pot I made for the build. I needed a dual gang 10k pot for the build but one needs to be logarithmic and the other antilogarithmic. I used two pots. The first a dual 10ka and a regular 10ka pot. Since the gang facing the board needs to be a C taper and is upsidedown we will use the single 10ka as our sacrificial lamb. Let's take the cover off and open the tabs to pull it apart.
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Once the bottom is apart we now need to seperate the the wafer from the shaft. We need the slowly and carefully break away the black plastic retainer connecting the shaft to the wiper. Go slow and don't touch the track. That black ring on the wafer is the track that carries the resistance, and it scratches easily.
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Now that it's removed I trim the legs and add diode legs that will be soldered to the board.
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Now we need to open the dual gang pot and remove the bottom wafer that we will be replacing.
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And now I put the new one in and close it up. Since the bottom gang is facing the opposite direction the top and they are mirrored in reverse, the A taper is now a C taper and we have made our custom dual taper 10k pot. Here it is all put together with the legs all trimmed to match.
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That’s very cool!
 
Guardians of the analog said:
I posted a build report of my effort. My effort to get more people in this thread is to post the pics of the custom dual gang pot I made for the build. I needed a dual gang 10k pot for the build but one needs to be logarithmic and the other antilogarithmic. I used two pots. The first a dual 10ka and a regular 10ka pot. Since the gang facing the board needs to be a C taper and is upsidedown we will use the single 10ka as our sacrificial lamb. Let's take the cover off and open the tabs to pull it apart.
View attachment 45288
Once the bottom is apart we now need to seperate the the wafer from the shaft. We need to slowly and carefully break away the black plastic retainer connecting the shaft to the wiper. Go slow and don't touch the track. That black ring on the wafer is the track that carries the resistance, and it scratches easily.
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Now that it's removed I trim the legs and add diode legs that will be soldered to the board.
View attachment 45290
Now we need to open the dual gang pot and remove the bottom wafer that we will be replacing.
View attachment 45291
And now I put the new one in and close it up. Since the bottom gang is facing the opposite direction the top and they are mirrored in reverse, the A taper is now a C taper and we have made our custom dual taper 10k pot. Here it is all put together with the legs all trimmed to match.
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April is about 6 weeks away, April 2nd being internationally recognized as Autism awareness day and in the US ( maybe elsewhere as well) April is Autism Awareness Month, and although Im grossly unprepared to do anything, I will still push this, because it I feel very strongly about it, more it is talked about, I feel the more likely hood of research, funding, and resources becoming available ( kind of the “plant a seed approach”). That being said if you are up for a challenge, build something cool, do something different, learn something new, push a skill to a higher level. Put yourself outside your comfort zone. Post your experience pics video/demo ect.. and the story why( if you want) There are no rules, no boundaries, no criteria… only 6 weeks ( and all of April too I guess 🤣) hope to see some cool stuff!
 
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