The Speech Den

09/09/2025

We love this post…so thought we would share it again! ❤️

08/09/2025

✨ We are SO excited to share this…

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind will be joining us as a special guest keynote speaker at the GLP Online Conference 2025!

Ron is the author of ‘Life Animated’, the incredible true story of how his son Owen - a Gestalt Language Processor - found his voice through the world of Disney.

🦜 From silence to sidekicks, echolalia to connection - Ron’s story is one of hope, affinity, and deep respect for neurodivergent communication.

💬 His powerful keynote will explore communication, family connection, and how GLPs make meaning through the language they love.

🎁 Plus! We’ll be giving away 5 copies of Life Animated to attendees 🥰

The all important dates are :

✨ 9th, 10th, 13th & 14th October 2025✨

All tickets include 6-month playback! Register now via the link in our Instagram bio or head to our website! ❤️

07/09/2025

Libby talks to Joel Roskin, who was diagnosed with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) as an adult. He is an amazing advocate for DLD and has a story that both inspires and informs. He is happy t...

05/09/2025

👋 Do you think your child is a Gestalt Language Processor?

➡️ Do you know the main signs to look 👀 out for?

➡️ Do you want to learn more about Gestalt Language Processing?

➡️ Would you be interested in attending our online GLP Conference in October this year?

😆 It’s our third conference and WE WOULD ❤️ YOU TO JOIN US!!!!

🌟 Registration is now OPEN, find the link to it in our bio 🌟

Our lineup of speakers this year is incredible…we have started posting about them all, so have a look and watch out for more announcements coming soon!

The all important dates of the online conference are :

🎉 Thursday 9th October
🎉 Friday 10th October
🎉 Monday 13th October
🎉 Tuesday 14th October

We are so excited to be hosting our third GLP Conference and continuing to grow our community of professionals, parents and carers who are all helping to spread the word about Gestalt Language Processors ❤️

04/09/2025

02/09/2025

Gestalt Language Processing Reframed: Monotropism, Interests & Connection

Helen Edgar from and I have been deep in planning mode for our GLP Conference session - and we’re so excited to share where our thinking has taken us!

We’re bringing together two big ideas:
✨ Gestalt Language Processing
✨ Monotropism - the theory that autistic minds focus deeply on a small number of interests at a time, shaping how attention and communication flow.

Monotropism isn’t new - it was developed by Dr Dinah Murray, Wenn Lawson and Mike Lesser in the 1990s and first published in 2005. It’s increasingly recognised in the autistic and neurodivergent community as a core part of understanding autism.

We’ll be sharing a visual that compares more traditional views of GLPs with a monotropism-informed, neurodiversity-affirming reframing - one that’s grounded in connection, interests, and how attention works in a monotropic mind.

We’d love to see you there, so come along and join us at the GLP Conference this October! Link to register is in my bio 💕