Sometimes people with autism produce long strings of nonsensical speech sounds. We call this “jargon.” It can sound like the person is trying to express something because jargon is often produced with an adult-like intonation pattern. However, jargon is not easily interpretable.
Jargon is occupation-specific language used by people in a given profession, the “shorthand” that people in the same profession use to communicate with each other. For example, plumbers might use terms such as elbow, ABS, sweating the pipes, reducer, flapper, snake, and rough-in.
Toddlers who end up having autism will generally have delayed speech. Language can be very repetitive and frequently will consist of phrases they have heard others use (echolalia). Often times it is just certain sounds that are repeated. Jargoning, a typical precursor to speech, is not commonly seen.
Some examples of jargon include: Due diligence: A business term, "due diligence" refers to the research that should be done before making an important business decision. AWOL: Short for "absent without leave," AWOL is military jargon used to describe a person whose whereabouts are unknown.
Jargon is when kids say a string of nonsensical syllables or pretend words that make no sense, or maybe with only one word that makes sense. In other words it's gibberish. From birth your child is attempting to communicate. Crying is your child's way of trying to get you to understand their wants and needs.
Key Takeaways:
The seven categories of jargon are medical terminology, abbreviations/acronyms, medical vernacular, unnecessary synonyms, medicalized English, euphemism jargon, and judgmental jargon.
Jargon usually means the specialized language used by people in the same work or profession. Internet advertising jargon includes the terms "click throughs" and "page views." This noun can also refer to language that uses long sentences and hard words.
In the speech therapy world, we refer to. jargon as a string of sounds or babble that children use. that have no meaning. So, it sounds like sentences are. being spoken but there are no intelligible words.
Jargon terms often use words that are out of place with the subject matter. If you're thinking outside of the box, do you have to climb inside first? What's an elephant doing in your meeting room? Heck, how did it get through the doorway?
Since jargon is associated with fluent (Wernicke's) aphasia, it is usually caused by damage to the temporal lobe, and more specifically, Wernicke's area. After the condition is diagnosed, a CT or MRI scan is typically used to determine the location and severity of the brain damage that has caused the aphasia.
As babies continue to develop, their babbling begins to sound more and more like conversation. This is sometimes referred to as jargon, and this babble has a rhythm and tone which sounds a lot like adult speech. After about a year of making various sounds and syllables, young children start to say their first words.
We typically expect that jargon (which can be defined as “babbling with intent”) will begin to fade at about 18 months and completely dissipate by 24 months. If a toddler has an expressive language delay or disorder, his intelligibility will be affected as he will often continue to use a lot of jargon in lieu of words.
Babies usually begin talking in jargon before their first birthday. By the time children are 2 years old, speech therapists look for them to use more real words than jargon. If you have a hard time understanding your toddler, it is because your child is still learning to pronounce different sounds.
Examples from the Collins Corpus
And, from the viewpoint of an outsider, the jargon was dense. He'd culled enough jargon from his own victim research to make it look like the real thing, he thought. Thinking about Florence in that jarring bit of jargon always brought a mental smile to Carlisle's Ph. D.
(ii) When the audience will understand. (iii) When it does not display the complexity of the subject matter. (iv) When it is not used to show off or impress members of the audience. (v) When discussing a technical topic with a technical audience.
In my various careers, I have become intimately familiar with two kinds of jargon: academic jargon and software jargon.
noun. the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon. unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing; gibberish.
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. When children repeat words right after they hear them, it's known as immediate echolalia.
Specialized words and phrases help you move more quickly to the meat of your argument. But jargon can quickly turn into a foreign language. Perhaps the strongest argument against using jargon is that you can lose your audience.
Jargon is not informal and can be used in a professional context. Slang is informal and can not be used in a professional context.
Jargon, also known as the stuffy, abstract, colorless, impersonal, and wordy language that appears in much professional, pseudo-scientific, bureaucratic, and journalistic writing, is often intended to compensate for lack of creativity.
Many nonverbal individuals with autism produce jargon as a repetitive, self-stimulatory behavior.