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48 %u00a9 Elklan Training Limited 2025Elklan Supporting Gestalt Language Processing %u2013 a Total Communication Approach6.0 MEETING INDIVIDUAL SENSORY NEEDS AND SUPPORT FOR NON-SPEAKING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE6.1 MEETING INDIVIDUAL SENSORY NEEDSMany but not all GLPs are autistic (Prizant 1983, Blanc 2023). Tavassoli et al (2014) suggested that 90% of autistic children have sensory differences and Gentil-Gutierrez et al (2021) emphasise the need for practitioners to %u2018understand and adapt%u2019 to the sensory needs of individual autistic children in education environments. This section on meeting individual sensory needs is added here but is relevant to any child or young person who has sensory differences. Likewise, children and young people can be %u2018nonspeakers%u2019 at any age or if identified as GLP, at any GLP Stage. Exploring the different possible reasons for not speaking and how to support non-speakers is included in this section.6.2 THE SEVEN SENSESTaylor and Trott%u2019s Pyramid of Learning (1991) was cited in William%u2019s and Shellenberger%u2019s %u2018How does your engine run?%u2019 in 1996. The diagram shows a visual representation of the significant importance of the sensory systems, at Level 1, and as the foundations of learning, at Level 4.The Pyramid of LearningThe Pyramid of Learning Taken from Williams & Shelingburger %u2018How does your engine run?%u2019