What is Gestalt Language Processing? Is Your Child a Gestalt Language Learner? 

Is ur baby conversational now?

Oddly enough, the Star Trek TNG episode “Darmok” helped us understand our son more than anything else.

I am really interested how your son's language level is at the age of 26??? My son is 6 and he has GLP how can I help him to develop his language?

@@samaryusuf1004 at 26, he is able to make his daily wants and needs understood. However, he is less able to spontaneously generate less-scripted language easily. He was unable to write college level essays, for instance. If there is a political idea he wants to discuss, he will show us a video to make his point as he often can’t explain what the other speaker means. If he is emotional, sometimes he has trouble speaking at all. That being said, he was quite able to hold a job as a grocery check out person, and he currently does QA checks for a bank. I guess the biggest help for him was having a great speech therapist at school, and as much exposure to language as possible.

but this is English use....

I came here just for this comment. @ the other commenter - Using the word while speaking English doesn’t change the phoneme, especially when both the hard and soft G sounds are idiomatic in English.

For sure- and there’s a million others too. How about “education” where the “du” is incorrectly pronounced as a “ ju” go around pronouncing it as a du and you will be judged. 😂

emergepediatrictherapy.com/gestalt-language-development/

Oh gosh. I posted this before i finished this video to the end. I will check out the blog! Thank you!

This is our therapist's favorite blog. Our staff does continuing education courses with them too! www.meaningfulspeech.com/blog

Yes, definitely! The process for acquiring language is very different for GLPs, as they have to work to break apart their language to combine it in new ways instead of slowly building and adding on to their language. If your child is mostly scripting, then he is likely at Stage 1 within the Natural Language Acquisition Framework. Children begin to communicate using novel sentences at Stages 3-4, so I would recommend that you find a therapist who can work with him through these stages!

@@emergepediatrictherapy Thank you so much!

it might be easier for them to learn Chinese, but not better. how would they communicate in an English speaking country (assuming theyre in one)? they would also have to be in a Chinese speaking environment in order to learn Chinese

This is interesting. My child is possibly on the autism spectrum and I suspect he has type 3 hyperlexia. He has also been described as a gestalt language processor. In any case, we speak both Mandarin and English in the household. I speak mostly English to him with a little Chinese and he responds mostly in English. He does have kind of an American accent with his Chinese I've noticed but this is because he hasn't gone through the intonation practice that Chinese Mandarin speakers go through as children. I do notice he can correct his intonation with practice though. But yeah, no idea about your question but its interesting to think about.

I just listened to a great SLP called "Preschool SLP" here on RU-vid, and she says NOT to use "caveman language". In other words, shortening our sentences and leaving out the "the" and other small words from English sentences is not a good idea. I find that my child does understand me when I speak using complex sentences, but does not have much expressive speech himself. Our SLP says scripting should help him

EBP is a three-prong framework and people can sometimes forget that research is only one component. What is often forgotten in clinical expertise/judgement and and caregiver culture. Additionally, there are so many barriers present to researching this topic, as language sampling is very qualitative by nature. There is no 'one size fits all' approach for teaching language, so we are often listening to the lived experiences of Autistic adults and looking for that 'gleam in the eye' when working with our clients to help us determine the meaning of their utterances. If you'd like to check out some of the research we use: Arnold, C. (2019). Flipping the Script: Prioritizing the Autistic Voice in the Understanding of Scripting as “Key to the Autistic Identity.” [Doctoral Dissertation, University of San Francisco] USF Scholarship Repository. repository.usfca.edu/diss/499/ [open access] Blanc, M. (2012). Natural Language Acquisition on the Autism Spectrum: The Journey from Echolalia to Self-Generated Language. Communication Development Center. Peters, A.M. (1983). The Units of Language Acquisition. Cambridge University Press. Prizant, B. (1983). Language acquisition and communicative behaviors in autism: Toward an understanding of the “whole” of it. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders. doi.org/10.1044/jshd.4803.296 [available to ASHA members] Prizant, B. M., & Rydell, P. J. (1984). Analysis of functions of delayed echolalia in autistic children. Journal of Speech & Hearing Research. doi.org/10.1044/jshr.2702.183 [available to ASHA members] Stiegler, L. (2015) Examining the echolalia literature: Where do speech-language pathologists stand? American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. doi.org/10.1044/2015_AJSLP-14-0166 [available to ASHA members]"

Not true gestalt language processing was being used by therapist in the 1970s and the 80s it was recognized. However they moved on from that and concentrated solely on alp. My daughter and her cousins are gestalt language processors so your opinion is not true at all this has been recognized it’s just not taught in graduate programs anymore so it’s less known by a lot of therapists. However it is making a comeback because more and more autistic children communicate this way I should know because I’m autistic and so is my toddler. If your not autistic then you have no clue.

As a parent whose son definitely learns this way and did it on his own with zero help, I can't tell you how wrong you are, and it's a shame that we're assuming that this isn't valid