09/05/2025
🗣️Children in stage 1 of the Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework who are gestalt language processors (GLPs) need many different gestalts with a big variety.
You want to provide the child with multiple gestalts with different communicative intent. Some examples of communicative intent would be commenting, help, transitions, surprises, shared joy, joint action, sensory action and new situations.
Think of it like providing the child a way to chime in during any type of situation! 💡
Because stage 1 GLPs aren’t able to produce spontaneous language it’s the job of the SLP, the parents and those on the child’s team to work together to model these gestalts for the child 🧠
Once the child has enough gestalts of varying context, they will then naturally start to move into stage 2 of the NLA framework 🔜
What’s your favorite gestalt to model for your GLP clients? 😊
