Ep 144 What You Need to Know about Gestalt Language Stages 1-3 w/Jessica Teixeira

a flatlay background with text in a white square: Episode 144: What you neeed to know about gestalt language stages 1-3 with Jessica Teixeira

Are you an SLP getting started with Gestalt Language Processor (GLP)?

Would you like more information about how to get started?

In this episode Jessica (@GemmaJuneSLP) chats with Sarah about GLP levels 1-3, including intervention session and gestalt examples. Sarah and Jessica also discuss what their sessions were like before they switched to child-led therapy sessions and what they’ve learned from making the switch.

Key Takaways

  • There are 6 levels of GLP, and as levels 4-6 are advanced grammar, this episode covers levels 1-3

  • GLP 1 - the goal is to add new gestalts that are mitigable (meaning they are flexible and can work for a variety of situations and can be combined into new gestalts) to a child’s repertoire, focusing on a variety of communicative functions

  • GLP 2 - the mix and match stage where for example “Let’s go to the store” might become: let’s go to the library, let’s go to school, or “it’s fun to jump” might become: it’s fun to read, it’s fun to sing, the goal here is to increase gestalts that we can combine (or mitigate)

  • GLP 3 - the magic stage of single words, the goal is functional words that students can use for more than one purpose and you may be teaching noun + noun as you start in this stage

  • Some basics: don’t always treat gestalts as literal, for example “jumping in muddy puddles” might mean “this is really fun” so look for context and when and how students are using gestalts; a gestalt can be a word or phrase, single word gestalts in GLP1 will not be combined (yet) until later stages

  • Jessica and Sarah discussed: encouraging families to take a break from speech therapy, and their experience of compliance-based sessions before they knew about child-led sessions and how things have changed since implementing child-led sessions

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