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39 %u00a9 Elklan Training Limited 2025Elklan Supporting Gestalt Language Processing %u2013 a Total Communication Approach5.8 DIRECT SUPPORT SESSIONS FOR GLP STAGE 2%u2022 From the Stage 2 observation results or from knowledge of the child or young person, prepare a set of their gestalts which could be mitigated. %u2022 Set up a session using their area of high interest, follow the child or young person%u2019s lead and when responding to their gestalts model the use of the mitigated gestalts.An example of supporting GLP Stage 2 at schoolTarget%u2018During R%u2019s preferred activity of playing with puppets, R will share positive interaction and increase the number of mitigated gestalts in their communication%u2019.Preparing for the activityAn outdoor, covered area with picnic benches and planters with plants where R could move around, hide the puppets and do tabletop puzzles, was identified. Skittles with different puppet characters had been introduced.It was decided that %u2018Let%u2019s play Cookie Monster%u2019 and %u2018Let%u2019s play hide %u2019n%u2019 seek%u2019 would be used. A note had been made of R%u2019s gestalts which could be mitigated, and the note included some ideas of what to model. R%u2019s commonly used gestalts included %u2018Oh never mind you%u2019ll be fine,%u2019 when R fell over. He used %u2018Of course we can help you because we are monster foodies%u2019 when cooking. These gestalts could be split and %u2018Oh never mind%u2019, %u2018You%u2019ll be fine%u2019 and %u2018Of course we can help you%u2019 were planned to be modelled using the exaggerated intonation R uses when the mitigated gestalt seemed to map onto the meaning of what R was doing.Interaction during the activityR likes to hide the puppets and run around and find them all then hide them again in the same places. R usually does this three times and then moves onto another activity. The adult follows R%u2019s lead and engages in hide and seek and uses phrases, responds to their gestalts and introduces mitigated gestalts. The adult says %u2018Looking for Kermit!%u2019 and then looks and Scenario: Child R likes the TV shows Sesame Street and The Muppets. They like soft toys depicting the puppets from the show. One of R%u2019s gestalts was singing the %u2018Let%u2019s play together%u2019 song from the Muppets. Adults have reinforced %u2018Let%u2019s play%u2019 as a gestalt and building other phrases %u2018Let%u2019s play puzzle%u2019, %u2018Let%u2019s play hide %u2018n%u2019 seek%u2019. Child R was observed combining %u2018Let%u2019s play%u2019 with their own novel phrase %u2018Let%u2019s play Bert and Ernie%u2019 when looking at a book with the two puppet characters on the book cover.