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C %u00a9 Elklan Training Limited 2025Elklan Supporting Gestalt Language Processing %u2013 a Total Communication ApproachCONTENTSINTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................11.0 NEURODIVERSITY.........................................................................................................................................61.1 What is Neurodiversity?................................................................................................................................61.2 Communication support and Neurodiversity.................................................................................................82.0 GESTALT LANGUAGE PROCESSING.......................................................................................................102.1 Differences in language development.........................................................................................................102.2 What is Gestalt Language Processing?...................................................................................................... 112.3 Non-generative language compared to generative language.....................................................................132.4 What is a Total Communication Approach? ................................................................................................143.0 THE IMPORTANCE OF ECHOLALIA..........................................................................................................163.1 Immediate Echolalia....................................................................................................................................163.2 Delayed Echolalia .......................................................................................................................................173.3 Learned social phrases...............................................................................................................................183.4 Perseverative speech .................................................................................................................................184.0 OBSERVATION AND MONITORING PROGRESS ....................................................................................194.1 Early identification of Gestalt Language Processing...................................................................................194.2 Observing bilingual individuals....................................................................................................................204.3 Observing different aspects of communication...........................................................................................204.4 Physical gestalts or echopraxia ..................................................................................................................214.5 Motor stimming and physical sensory responses .......................................................................................224.6 Physical movement and non-verbal communication...................................................................................224.7 Vocal gestalts..............................................................................................................................................234.8 Verbal gestalts ............................................................................................................................................244.9 Mitigated verbal gestalts .............................................................................................................................244.10 Self-generated talk......................................................................................................................................254.11 Single and repeated words and context......................................................................................................254.12 Using the GLP Observation Form...............................................................................................................284.13 Individual needs and AAC...........................................................................................................................325.0 SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH STAGES 1 AND 2 OF GESTALTLANGUAGE PROCESSING................................................................................................................................335.1 Stage 1........................................................................................................................................................335.2 Access to space..........................................................................................................................................345.3 Following the child or young person%u2019s lead.................................................................................................345.4 Affirming gestalts ........................................................................................................................................355.5 Benefits from shared interaction .................................................................................................................365.6 AAC at Stage 1 Gestalt Language Processing...........................................................................................375.7 Stage 2........................................................................................................................................................385.8 Direct support sessions for GLP Stage 2....................................................................................................395.9 Ongoing support at GLP Stage 2................................................................................................................405.10 AAC for Stage 1 and Stage 2 Gestalt Language Processors.....................................................................415.11 Paper-based communication aids...............................................................................................................41