What is Gestalt Language Processing? Strategies for enhancing your child's language development.

This is a fascinating episode with guest Autumn Wischnefski, a speech and language pathologist at CI.  She tells us all about Gestalt Language Processing, how it's more common than we think, and strategies for enhancing language development in your child. Episode Resources: Let's Give Them Something to Gestalt About: https://www.theinformedslp.com/review/let-s-give-them-something-to-gestalt-about   Natural language acquisition can be broken down into the following six stages:  Gestalts  Mitigated Gestalts  Isolation and Combination of Single Words  *Self-Generated Phrases and Simple Sentences  *Self-Generated Sentences Used in Everyday Situations  *Self-Generated Sentences Used in Complex Situations  *These stages begin to incorporate grammatical components of language (i.e., verb structures)   Gestalts can often be derived from media, which is challenging for therapists/caregivers to complete “detective work” in order to gather contextual meaning. Here are some resources for websites which find audio/video source for gestalts:  Play Phrase  Yarn  Subzin  QuoDB  Pop Mystic Follow us on social!  Instagram: www.instagram.com/citherapy/ Facebook:www.facebook.com/CItherapy/ TikTok:@citherapy