Echolalia and Gestalt Language Processing Information & Data Collection

This Echolalia & Gestalt Language Processing Information & Data Set is the perfect addition your therapy room or classroom! With Natural Language Acquisition and Gestalt Language Processing gaining momentum within the speech-language community, this product provides valuable introductory information for caregivers, speech-language pathologists, teachers, and related professionals serving preschool, school-aged, and adolescent echolalic communicators. 

Natural Language Acquisition learners acquire “chunks” of language, called “gestalts” or “delayed echolalia.” As opposed to Analytic Language Processors, who learn and use language progressively from single words to multi-word utterances, Gestalt Language Processors may use previously heard verbal message which become emotionally meaningful for that child.

This resource is designed to introduce the concept of Gestalt Language Processing and provide techniques for facilitating communication for children with delayed echolalia. Gestalt Language Processors learn and use words, phrases, and sentences as a unit, carrying meaning not word-by-word, but as a whole.

It can be difficult to determine if your child is a gestalt language processor unless the gestalt is significantly different in vocabulary, syntax, and message from the gestalt language processor’s spontaneously generated language. That's why this resource also provides quantitative and qualitative data collection methodologies to collect meaningful information as we facilitate our communicator’s progression across developmental stages unique to Gestalt Language Processors.

By understanding and supporting the unique language acquisition process of Gestalt Language Processors, you can help your child develop effective communication skills and overcome barriers to social and academic success. Get started today with this comprehensive resource.

This resource provides: 

• Color and black-and-white informational handouts about echolalia and gestalt language processing utilizing professional language, definitions, and examples for caregivers, teachers and related professionals 
• Data collection sheets to collect meaningful quantitative data measuring percentage of utterances that are self-generated, mitigated or whole gestalts, percentage of utterances used for various communicative functions, and percentage of utterances at various stages of development 
• Data collection sheets to collect meaningful qualitative data by analyzing language samples according to structure, function, and developmental level 

Overall, this resource is designed to encourage communication partners to interpret echolalia and gestalts as meaningful communication, and provide professionals ways to track each child’s progress through developmental stages. 

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