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24 %u00a9 Elklan Training Limited 2025Elklan Supporting Gestalt Language Processing %u2013 a Total Communication Approach4.8 VERBAL GESTALTSVerbal gestalts originate from words/phrases they have heard from people speaking, from gaming games, films, videos, songs and TV. They involve delayed echolalia with exact copies of the intonation from the source.4.9 MITIGATED VERBAL GESTALTSMitigated verbal gestalts occur when the child or young person repeats some words but with changes.%u2022 Mitigation refers to the reducing of gestalts into smaller parts%u2022 Words are %u2018freed%u2019 from the gestalts into parts%u2022 Parts of a gestalt are combined with other utterances %u2022 This process of %u2018mixing and matching%u2019 (Blanc 2012) is called %u2018mitigation%u2019%u2022 The child or young person may have a wide range of gestalts and gestalts which can be split and combined.Example: An example of how this presented is a young person, D, who developed their Gestalt Language Processing from their interest in watching the popular comedic character, Mr Bean, on an internet video viewing channel.D uses the script %u2018Let%u2019s dance oh yes follow me%u2019 from the Mr Bean dance video clip using the exact intonation when drawing. D used this verbal gestalt to express pleasure and it was not accompanied by the dance or music.Let%u2019s dance oh yes follow meExample: Continuing from the example above, %u2018Let%u2019s dance oh yes follow me%u2019 was mitigated so that D started to say %u2018Oh yes%u2019 and %u2018follow me%u2019 in different utterances and contexts.D uses %u2018Oh yes%u2019 combined with other words when expressing pleasure in eating a cream doughnut.Oh yesdoughnut time