January 2025 Journal Club
VSHA Journal Club: Natural Language Acquisition and Gestalt Language Processing Analysis
Cost: Free course with ASHA CEUs
Reading: Saturday, Jan 11th 2025- Saturday, Jan 25th, 2025
Zoom Q & A with Tiffany Hutchins, Ph.D.: Wednesday, January 22nd from 6:30-7:30
Course Description:
Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) is a protocol intended to support the language development of autistic people and is associated with Gestalt Language Processing (GLP). The aim of this article is to evaluate NLA in light of relevant literature to allow scrutiny of NLA claims. This article reveals that the basis of NLA lacks empirical support and individualized supports are recommended.
Learning Outcomes:
Compare the notion of gestalt language with other literature on language styles
Identify definitional and conceptual problems of gestalt language processing
Define the construct ‘episodic memory’
Identify theoretical and empirical shortcomings of delayed echolalia
Summarize Blanc’s language stages in a way that challenges validity
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
No changes have been made to this article by VSHA
Citation: Hutchins, T. L., Knox, S. E., & Fletcher, E. C. (2024). Natural language acquisition and gestalt language processing: A critical analysis of their application to autism and speech language therapy. Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 9. https://doi.org/10.1177/23969415241249944
Disclosure: The authors declared no potential financial or non-financial relationships with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Dr. Hutchins offered these additional articles that participants are encouraged to read; however, these are not eligible for ASHA CEUs as part of this journal club
https://pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/2023_PERSP-23-00098
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23969415241249944
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13623613241234598
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13623613241287577
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40474-024-00309-8