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🆓🔓Hutchins, T. L., Knox, S. E., & Fletcher, E. C. (2026). Rethinking Gestalts and the #NaturalLanguageAcquisition Framework: Advancing Construction Grammar Approaches for Autistic AAC-Aided Language Learners doi.org/10.1177/2396...
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Rethinking Gestalts and the Natural Language Acquisition Framework: Advancing Construction Grammar Approaches for Autistic AAC-Aided Language Learners1 - Tiffany L. Hutchins, Sophie E. Knox, E. Cheryl...
Background & Aims The Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework and discourse on “gestalt language processing” (GLP) have gained substantial visibility i...
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September 22, 2026 at 1:36 AM
tg-at.bsky.social
Vital reading for any #bskyspeechies or those involved in #AAC #AugComm - this is a brilliant read, incredible resource & available entirely free, ahead of @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social and team's upcoming systematic review on #GestaltLanguageProcessing #GLP #NaturalLanguageAcquisition #NLA
December 6, 2024 at 9:59 AM
lucyebryant.bsky.social
Here is a link to our (unfunded) Meta-Narrative Review on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition. Do you know of any publications (text, in English, not social media, not vids) that we can check? If so, DM or email me at Lucy.Bryant@uts.edu.au www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis...
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination is a department of the University of York and is part of the National Institute for Health Research. CRD undertakes high quality systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of health and social care interventions and the delivery and organisation of health care.
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January 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
lucyebryant.bsky.social
Tell us what you think of #GestaltLanguageProcessing #GLP and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition. How do you apply this approach (or not) in your practice? Take the 10-minute, anonymous, online survey. Exit any time. Please share with your networks! redcap.link/GLP_NLA
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Views on Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) and Natural Language Acquisition (NLA)
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December 20, 2024 at 4:16 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
🔐💰 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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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.
September 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
🇬🇧 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.
June 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
💰🔐 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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Intervention Techniques Targeting Echolalia: A Scoping Review
Purpose: Although echolalic speech is found in typical development, echolalia is most commonly associated with autism. As such, echolalia has fre...
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March 14, 2025 at 4:50 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
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.
March 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
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
March 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
When asked "What is the evidence of effectiveness of #NaturalLanguageAcquisition -based intervention for #GestaltLanguageProcessors?” Chat GPT replied ... @lucyebryant.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @drjuliadray.bsky.social @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social
Happy Friday 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES! #GLPNLA
"What is the evidence of effectiveness of Natural Language Acquisition based intervention for Gestalt Language Processors?”
March 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
SEMINAL:
Containing important new ideas; having a great influence on later work.

Highly influential in an original way; constituting or providing a basis for further development.

Is Marge Blanc's #NaturalLanguageAcquisition "SEMINAL"? 🤣 🙄

Are people taken in by its promos? 🐑 🐏 🐑 🐑 Undoubtedly.
bronwynhemsley.bsky.social Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · Mar 1
My anecdotal evidence shows that although Marge Blanc’s #NaturalLanguageAcquisition book is endorsed by Dr Barry Prizant hardly anyone has even seen it much less read it.

It’s a seminal work??? No! No other research papers on it, measuring it, defining it, agreeing with it, are published.
March 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
@katharinebeals.bsky.social Thanks, @speechbite.bsky.social!

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Bryant, L., Bowen, C., Grove, R. et al. Systematic Review of Interventions Based on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition (GLP/NLA) doi.org/10.1007/s404...
Systematic Review of Interventions Based on Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA): Clinical Implications of Absence of Evidence and Cautions for Clinicians and Parents...
Purpose of the Review This systematic review aimed to determine whether interventions related to Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA) are effective for individuals wi...
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February 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH isn't about what we hope to find—it's about what the evidence shows. In this case, it SHOWS NO EVIDENCE for #GESTALTlanguagePROCESSING / #NaturalLANGUAGEacquisition having ANY impact on communication, language, or behaviour in people with communication disability 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
February 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
Here is a link to our (unfunded) Meta-Narrative Review on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition. Do you know of any publications (text, in English, not social media, not vids) that we can check? If so, DM or email Lucy.Bryant@uts.edu.au www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis...
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination is a department of the University of York and is part of the National Institute for Health Research. CRD undertakes high quality systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of health and social care interventions and the delivery and organisation of health care.
www.crd.york.ac.uk
January 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
🆕research pursuant to our GLP/NLA review! Protocol for a Meta-Narrative Review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis...

“What are the features/outcomes of GLP/NLA related therapies for minimally or non-speaking individuals?”
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January 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
📌🆕 10 min online anonymous worldwide survey. Hi allied health people (SLP/SLT, OT, clinical psych, etc); allied health assistant (any discipline); or teacher (SENCo, classroom 🧑‍🏫, etc); teaching assistant. Need YOUR 🤔VIEWS🤔 on #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition
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Views on Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) and Natural Language Acquisition (NLA)
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December 20, 2024 at 4:33 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
Our Systematic Review of #GestaltLanguagePricessing / #NaturalLanguageAcquisition scored 3 IMPORTANT YESSES in ASHA's Evidence Maps!
✔️The review states a clearly focused question/aim.
✔️Criteria for inclusion of studies are provided.
✔️Search strategy described in sufficient detail forl #replication.
December 19, 2024 at 8:41 PM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
PODCAST released Dec 17, 2024
HOST @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social
GUESTS @lucyebryant.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social
PRODUCER Laura Corrigan 2SER
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KEY PAPER doi.org/10.1007/s404... link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#gestaltlanguageprocessing #naturallanguageacquisition
Mind the evidence gap : Caution over Gestalt Language Processing / Natural Language Acquisition - What’s Got Us Talking: The UTS Speech Pathology Podcast
Recognising the rising popularity of GLP/NLA, we bring the results of a systematic review into the conversation and explore some reasons for its rapid growth despite the absence of research evidence. ...
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December 18, 2024 at 12:36 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
🆓🔓 Wong @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social et al 2013 RAMESES publication standards: meta-narrative reviews. BMC medicine11,20 bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... This will help us report on our #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition meta-narrative review, Jan 1, 25 to Jan 1, 26.
RAMESES publication standards: meta-narrative reviews - BMC Medicine
Background Meta-narrative review is one of an emerging menu of new approaches to qualitative and mixed-method systematic review. A meta-narrative review seeks to illuminate a heterogeneous topic area ...
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December 15, 2024 at 4:33 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
VERY interested to hear 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES' views on this. #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition #autism #livedexperience

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” — Mark Twain (🙄perhaps)
December 14, 2024 at 1:17 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
Talking DLD Podcast @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social & @carolinebowen.bsky.social talk to @shaunziegenfusz.bsky.social RE #GestaltLanguageProcessing & #NaturalLanguageAcquisition
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

thedldproject.com/gestalt-lang...
Thank you for having us, Shaun & Nat!
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December 13, 2024 at 11:33 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
🆓🆕🔓 Systematic Review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing/#NaturalLanguageAcquisition #autism 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES 🙏PLEASE 🔄 @deevybee.bsky.social @journalautism.bsky.social @ashajournals.bsky.social @bmj.com @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social @jonathanstea.bsky.social @autismcrisis.bsky.social @naplic.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 5:21 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
#gestaltlanguageprocessing #naturallanguageacquisition #asha2024 🦋 #bskyspeechies
December 6, 2024 at 9:42 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
Wonderful, @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social, @katharinebeals.bsky.social & #HowardShane! #GLP #NLA #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition #SystematicReview #ASHA2024 🥳 #Congratulations

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bronwynhemsley.bsky.social Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · Dec 6
Thankyou to everyone who came along to our talk - wow. Just amazing comments from people who came and spoke to us afterwards. I am so grateful that so many people who support GLP/NLA can find our paper useful.

And they loved Bluey (producer Laura Carolina Corrigan) @carolinebowen.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 7:16 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
🚫 #GestaltLanguageProcessing 🚫
🚫 #NaturalLanguageAcquisition 🚫
⁉️ "ANALYTIC" Language Processor ⁉️
⁉️ "GESTALT" Language Processor ⁉️
⁉️ "GLPer⁉️
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bronwynhemsley.bsky.social Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · Dec 3
Someone made me this AI pic of an GLP/NLA no go badge after reading about how #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition is promoting #RPM and #FC - see pages 259 and 260 of Blanc (2012) reminding me of an actual badge at #ASHA1995 #ASHA24 @katharinebeals.bsky.social
A badge that has GLP and NLA in black letters on a white background with a red line across the diagonal An actual badge from ASHA 1995 that presenters wore and gave out as a orotest against FC - white badge with red diagonal line across the black letters F C
December 4, 2024 at 11:40 PM