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Here is the Revised Chapter 19 from the Natural Language Acquisition book. It includes revised scoring guidelines, to eliminate the half-scores. The linguistic environments of our children today are too complex to ‘fudge’ on Stage 3, like was common in the ‘old days’ when Barry Prizant recognized the first four stages of gestalt language development. Chapter 19 was revised in 2022, and again in 2023, to reflect the *true* Stage 3 that we support today. This stand-alone chapter is now sent to purchasers of the NLA book, but those of you who have had the book for longer than two years may not have this!
The Journey from Echolalia to Self-Generated Language, Marge Blanc, M.A., CCC-SLP
“This is the language course we missed in school”
Leslie W., M.A., CCC-SLP
“This is the language course we missed in school”
– Leslie, M.A., CCC-SLP
Donations appreciated!
“This is the language course we missed in school”
– Leslie, M.A., CCC-SLP
Here are the Communication Development Center Policies that we all probably agree on, because we care about our clients, potential clients, and their families. We want to remind everyone that we are not in competition with one another, rather as a team spreading our neurodiversity mindsets and providing Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition expertise with the world. We want potential clients to know who we are as professionals, but we don’t want to appear to be competing or end up competing with each other. We are all in this together, all learning, and all capable of learning more along with our clients and families, no matter how experienced or well educated we are.
We also presume that we are all SLPs, SLTS, SLPAS, CDAS, and not BCBAs and RBTs. We also presume that we are all ND-affirming, not compliance-based, use child-led therapy, are family focused, and acknowledge the principles of child development and the development of self-regulation.
Each of us is proud of the courses we’ve taken, readings we’ve done, in services we’ve provided in our school or clinic etc… but we’re not in competition with each other so our policy is to respect that our comment section reflects collegiality.
Here are some examples that might illustrate what families would be looking for:
Since our goal is to both reflect your practice as you want to reflect it and maintain the collegiality we mentioned earlier, we will contact you if we feel that an edit to your listing would better reflect those values.