This study by Daisy Clements ( @dsyclmnts.bsky.social ) at @manmetuni.bsky.social surveys the attitudes and practices of 🇬🇧UK PRACTISING SALTs on #GestaltLanguageProcessing. #GLP/NLA forms.office.com/pages/respon...
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES registered with HCPC, currently practising within the UK.
‼️ SLT Participants needed for Research on Gestalt Language Processing
If you are interested in autism or GLP please see the poster and link below to complete a short survey 😊
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#slt #gestaltlanguageprocessing #glp #speechandlanguagetherapy #autism #echolalia
❗@conalmc.bsky.social is exploring Educational Psychologists’ evaluation of #GestaltLanguageProcessing and Neurodiversity-Affirmative Practice. ℹ️ edpsy.org.uk/blog/2026/pr... He seeks 🇬🇧 UK #edpsychs as survey participants. @edpsydan.bsky.social @drchrismooreep.bsky.social @drdanlake.bsky.social
📋️ New project page
Conal is exploring Educational Psychologists’ evaluation of Gestalt Language Processing and Neurodiversity-Affirmative Practice.
Study information and links here: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2026/pr...
#edpsychs #evidencebasedpractice #GestaltLanguageProcessing #Neurodiversity
I am still looking for any new sources on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquistion. If you know of any new papers, articles, blogs, websites, theses, or any other written sources, please let me know!! I want to read it all! DM me or email Lucy.Bryant@uts.edu.au
I didn’t hire the DJ, and I don’t pay the DJ, but my brain has decided it’s at XTC day.
#GestaltLanguageProcessing #AuDHDLife
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTC
It has recently been suggested that GLP/NLA intervention be embraced as a neurodiversity-affirmating practice (Haydock et al., 2024).(Neurodiversity refers to the idea that people interact in many different ways and that a difference is not a deficit to be fixed.) Some aspects of GLP/NLM intervention, such as embracing autistic communication, are consistent with neurodiversity. However, GLP/NLA is also associated with numerous ideas and clinical strategies that lack theoretical and empirical support. For this reason, Venker and Lorang (2025) believe it is premature to embrace GLP/ NLM as a neurodiversity-affirmative practice. Clinicians who are employing a GLP approach are generally adamant that they observe changes in their clients. That is quite possible, and probably likely, but the changes they observe may not be due to the premises of the GLP framework but rather to factors in the therapeutic interactions that might be found in many language interventions.
🔐💰 Westby, C. (2025). Reflections on Gestalt Language Processing. Word of Mouth, 37(1), 4-9. doi.org/10.1177/1048... #GLP #NLA #gestaltlanguageprocessing #naturallanguageacquisition
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I agree, the chocolate block analogy seems a bit off for explaining #GestaltLanguageProcessing. Do you think a more dynamic, context-driven analogy would better capture how phrases and words combine naturally?
Our development is not chronological. It is teleological. The journey does not proceed in tidy steps; it circles, accumulates, waits. Gestalts accrue - fragments, scripts, sensory impressions - often in silence. And only when enough has gathered, and when safety allows, does expression emerge. The destination shapes the route. The end state calls back to pull the pieces into alignment. This is recursive growth, not linear progression. It cannot be timeboxed. It cannot be rushed. This is why so many professionals fail to understand what they're seeing. Even the psychological theories they draw from are mismatched to us. Maslow's hierarchy of needs, with its tidy pyramid - safety first, then belonging, then self-actualisation - fails to account for the way autistic minds often move. We will sometimes engage in flow states of intense focus and joy - scripting, patterning, spinning, lining up, creating — even whilst skipping meals, ignoring thirst, disregarding physical discomfort entirely. Because for us, the act of satisfying the internal Quality World Picture - as Glasser might have named it - is not secondary to survival. It is, in many ways, the very condition of our survival.
… The destination shapes the route. The end state calls back to pull the pieces into alignment. This is recursive growth, not linear progression. It cannot be timeboxed. It cannot be rushed…
#autism #autistic #gestaltlanguageprocessing
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hum of anxiety. The relentless background work of managing dysphoria - of carrying a gender I had not yet had the safety to name, let alone shed. And always, the vigilance of an autistic child who learned early that safety depended on reading the room faster than anyone else. When survival consumes that much energy, expressive language narrows. Gestalt processing doesn't disappear - it adapts. My gestalts became smaller, simpler, functional. Short scripts. Command phrases. Safe, reliable sentences I could deploy without risk. Communication became survival scripting. Anything more elaborate carried too much uncertainty, too much chance of misfiring, misunderstanding, rupture. And then — slowly — the freeze began to thaw. Not because I discovered a new therapy. Not because I followed someone's carefully curated success plan. But because, at last, I came out. I let myself speak the truth of who I was - not just as autistic, but as a trans woman. HRT
Communication differences are a real thing … different, not defective.
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#autism #autistic #gestaltlanguageprocessing
"In many cases, what the professionals named as 'autistic symptoms' were, at core, the hallmarks of gestalt language processing. The echolalia they noted with concern was not mindless repetition, nor defiant behaviour — it was your child's natural method of learning language. Whole phrases acquired as units, stored, retrieved, remixed. The frustration they flagged was not simple dysregulation but ..." Jaime Hoerricks, PhD The Long Archive: A Letter to Parents of GLP Younglings AUTSIDE.SUBSTACK.COM
What the DSM gets wrong about #autism and #gestaltlanguageprocessing could fill volumes.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
🇬🇧 UK 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #gestaltlanguageprocessing #naturallanguageacquisition #GLP #NLA #glp/nla #neuro-affirmativepractice #neuro-affirmativecare 10-minute ethics approved survey open to 🇬🇧 Speech and Language Therapist or Speech and Language Therapy Assistant in the UK.
A blow by blow examination of what traditional therapy gets wrong from an autistic GLP point of view.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
#autism #autistic #gestaltlanguageprocessing #therapy #slp #glp
Did anyone attend the UK and Ireland Facebook group meeting last night about our #GLP #GestaltLanguageProcessing webinar for Irish Association of SLTs next Monday morning? How many were there strategising/freaking out?
Over 200 registered for our talk!!
There is no research evidence for #GLP #NLA
What is the latest evidence on #GLPNLA #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition in autism with minimally or non-speaking children or adults?
If it works, why are there no papers months after our review?
Do you know of any studies?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I also think people need to know about the one treatment design study on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and how we haven’t been allowed to read it because of the supervision team gatekeeping it to closed access and not obtainable from the thesis library.
Weirdly controlling of scientific evidence.
I am sure everyone would love to be reminded about #RapidPromptingMethod #SpellersMethod and how #GestaltLanguageProcessing is driving people towards these harmful techniques instead of evidence-based interventions of AAC.
I don’t know why Battye moved away from EBP so rapidly. Coerced? It’s odd.
Must get busy writing my abstracts on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and Blanc’s #NaturalLanguageAcquisition for #ASHA2025
💰🔐 In @ashajournals.bsky.social Dinello, A & Gladfelter, A. 2025 Intervention Techniques Targeting #Echolalia: A Scoping Review. AJSLP. doi.org/10.1044/2025... Of possible interest to #NaturalLanguageAcquisition enthusiasts & #GestaltLanguageProcessing believers. #autism
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Examples of the scare campaign of #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition devotees:
1. That I am in league with ABA (conspiracy)
2. That I will say GLPs do not exist (scare).
Scare campaigns are a hallmark of cults (see #7), stop relying on fear www.cookman.edu/crl/cult-rel...
Wow - amazingly anonymous positive positive feedback so far to our @coursebeetle.bsky.social workshop on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition
Only a few people objecting to our view that clinicians should ask themselves if it is like a cult. It’s a reflective question.
Looking forward to delivering a few difficult messages about #GestaltLanguageProcessing and particularly the results of our review of #NaturalLanguageAcquisition (described by Marge Blanc) tonight for the UK audience - almost 200 people registered so should be VERY interesting to hear their views.
At UTS we are currently investigating the content of public YouTube and Instagram posts relating to #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition (GLP/NLA) with ethical approval ETH24-10332. The research is being conducted from 10 Mar to 10 April in 2025. We aim to understand more about the information that viewers obtain from watching YouTube or Insta posts about GLP/NLA. We are not collecting data on your name or any identifying information and are not downloading or storing the images or photos. No images or photos will be used in reporting on the results in conference presentations or journal articles, and no individual data will be reported apart from de-identified excerpts of quotes. If you wish to opt out and not have your YouTube or Insta posts included in the research please email us on Bronwyn.Hemsley@uts.edu.au No contact details about you will be retained and if any of your posts are already collected they will be removed permanently from the data. This data collection period is from 10 March to 10 April in 2025 (1 month). I will post a similar notice when the data collection period is completed.
From Mar10-Ap10 we'll investigate content of public #YouTube & #Instagram posts re #GestaltLanguageProcessing & #NaturalLanguageAcquisition. We won't collect your name, identifying info, images or photos.Opt out by EMAILING Bronwyn.Hemsley (AT)uts.edu.au Ethics approval ETH24-10332🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
At UTS we are currently investigating the content of public YouTube and Instagram posts relating to #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition (GLP/NLA) with ethical approval ETH24-10332. The research is being conducted from 10 Mar to 10 April in 2025. We aim to understand more about the information that viewers obtain from watching YouTube or Insta posts about GLP/NLA. We are not collecting data on your name or any identifying information and are not downloading or storing the images or photos. No images or photos will be used in reporting on the results in conference presentations or journal articles, and no individual data will be reported apart from de-identified excerpts of quotes. If you wish to opt out and not have your YouTube or Insta posts included in the research please email us on Bronwyn.Hemsley@uts.edu.au No contact details about you will be retained and if any of your posts are already collected they will be removed permanently from the data. This data collection period is from 10 March to 10 April in 2025 (1 month). I will post a similar notice when the data collection period is completed.
Ethically approved Opt Out Statement
Do you publish social media posts on #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition?
From 10 Mar-10Apr we are analysing the content (no identifying details) of YouTube & Insta posts.
No posts (images, vids) are collected, stored or included in reports.
Extraordinary and somewhat ironic that Battye says “misinformation about #gestaltlanguageprocessing is prevalent” until you realise she is not admitting that #glp #nla proponents are dishing out the misinformation. And she used to write sensible things about #aac/ #augcomm … how was she led astray?
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/g... in which Ali Battye re-hashes the false story of there being longitudinal research and presents factually incorrect information about the criteria for our systematic review.
Disinfo = they have nothing better to present in support of #GestaltLanguageProcessing
Why do the most passionate teachers of #GestaltLanguageProcessing keep simply reciting the teachings of the leader (Blanc) - if they have positive clinical stories of their own about language progress why don’t they write up the data in case reports with independent measures? Not even research.
🇬🇧 coursebeetle.co.uk/courses/gest... 🖥️ ONLINE via @coursebeetle.bsky.social. Hear @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social March 10, 9-10:30 UK ⌚ #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisiton Nominal registration fee. For all professionals working with children with #Autism and/or #SLCN 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
Confirmation bias is a 💥POWERFUL thing.
Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favour, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values.
#GestaltLanguageProcessing #GLP #NaturalLanguageAcquisition #NLA
Why does Battye's 2024/5 #GestaltLanguageProcessing text push so many texts that rely on #FacilitatedCommunication #SpellersMethod #RPM?
UK NICE Guidelines say #FC shouldn't be used.
www.nice.org.uk/guidance/CG1...
Her 2023 text 'Navigating AAC') was sensible.
Avoid a slide into pseudoscience.
