From Echolalia and Scripting to Original Speech: Top Strategies for Gestalt Language Processors
Speech and Language Kids Podcast · Carrie Clark, CCC-SLP
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"My child isn't talking yet but he can sing songs or repeat lines/scripts from movies."
Or…
"My child simply repeats what everyone else says."
These are the kinds of things I hear from parents of children who are learning language….
….differently.
See, it turns out there are two main ways that children learn language.
Some children learn language one word at a time.
Other children, learn language in chunks by repeating whole sentences or scripts that they hear elsewhere.
These children are called Gestalt Language Processors.
I'm speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark and on today's episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, I'm going to share my top 6 steps for helping those gestalt language processors find their voice.