what is gestalt processing? with marge blanc

Enhancing Language Through Music: Exploring Gestalt Language Processing and Melodies - A presentation by Corinne Zmoos, MS, CCC SLP, as part of the Gestalt Get-Together webinar series and podcast.

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In this episode, Corinne Zmoos, MS, CCC-SLP, is joined by the legendary Marge Blanc, MA, CCC-SLP, to lay a foundation of what Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition are. You’ll hear about the past, present, and future of this exciting part of our field and clear examples of language from each of the six stages of NLA.

About the guest:

Marge Blanc is the director of the Communication Development Center in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and author of Natural Language Acquisition on the Autism Spectrum: The Journey from Echolalia to Self-Generated Language (2012). As a speech-language pathologist for 45+ years, Marge met her first autistic gestalt language processor as a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Marge subsequently founded the CDC clinic in Madison to serve autistic clients and others who benefit from sensorimotor support. Marge conducted clinical research in her practice, detailing gestalt language development in various children and young adults. Her longitudinal findings described and quantified the stages of gestalt language development outlined by Barry Prizant and supported by the research findings of Ann Peters. In its sixth printing, the book was endorsed by Barry Prizant as “...the most comprehensive consideration of echolalia and language characteristics of persons with autism to date...(which) brings us back to a crucial understanding of language characteristics and language acquisition in ASD...”

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The gestalt get-together is your podcast for discussing the state-of-the-evidence of Gestalt Language Processing, associated therapy modalities, and how our field is responding to the frameworks of GLP and NLA. Our episodes will provide balanced and educational interviews about clinician experiences, live coaching and problem-solving about therapeutic decision-making, musical language techniques and recommendations, discussions about logical fallacies and cognitive-linguistic biases, and elements of the BITE model that have emerged in the larger GLP movement.

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