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[ivana]

Do you know if the MRI's had any abnormalities or did they come back normal?

Do you have the report and what it says on it?

Has there been any mention of the possibility of your mum potentially having Picks Disease or Transcortical sensory aphasia as both can cause Echolalia and the second doesn't always show on a MRI (depending on the cause).

Would you know how your mum ended up being admitted in the Pyschiatric unit as opposed to a different unit-Ie:does she also have Depression,personality changes or other Psychiatric symptoms or was it purely due to her Echolalia that they presumed it was some form of Schizophrenia/psychosis?

Does your mum have any other illnesses apart from the Hypothyroidism and do you know her blood pressure levels?

If you dont mind the questions,is your mum able to follow basic commands such as point to the celing and is she able to follow more complex commands like rapidly making a fist edge palm (three steps)and doing it fast?

If you give her a piece of paper to write on is able to express her thoughts that way or is rather that she is devoid of thoughts?

Sane forums doesn't allow posters to state any doctors or therapists names so i can't state any unfortunately but maybe by contacting the Aphasia asociations (linked below) they could point you to someone in your area/state experienced in diagnosing Aphasia and a Speech pathologist who understands aphasia and apraxia of speech?

http://www.aphasia.org.au/aphasia/aphasia-contact/

http://www.aphasiapathway.com.au/?name=assessment-by-a-speech-pathologist