Communication Development Center

Communication Development Center

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July 26, 2023

Good Morning, I am just starting to introduce AAC to a GLP client and I wondered if anyone would be kind enough to share how they have started off in terms of the layout on the AAC? Thank you so much.

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July 26, 2023

I have a client who is 7 and I have only been with him for about a month. He has previously had ABA and has made minimal progress in past speech according to his parents. He has LAMP but parents aren’t very familiar with it and it isn’t really used at home. He has some scripts probably 5-10 things he consistently says and he adds “I want” to everything. Overall, his spoken language is pretty limited. “I want turn it on” and “I want pick me up” are ones he uses a lot. Our goal in starting has been to model mitigable flexible stage 1 gestalts to expand. I model both verbally and on LAMP. He has started to use more immediate echolalia and spontaneously use modeled gestalts during sensory activities which is great! Today, he started adding “I want” to the gestalts I modeled. We were playing with a toy where you put gears on a board and can spin them. I fwas focusing on models “do it again” “help me” and “it’s spinning!!” He started saying on his own “I want do it again” and “I want help me” and “I want spin” I acknowledged his language and honored his requests. I personally have not modeled I want phrases and I don’t think his parents still do. I’m wondering if anyone has experienced this and any tips. I know “I want” is taught language from ABA approaches. It’s interesting that he was in a way mitigating with it… do mitigations with taught gestalts count as stage 2?

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AAC Stage 1

Trying to stay true to our GLPs as we partner with them at Stage 1. Undaunted by not knowing which gestalt to make available for the next day, this client’s mom and SLP knew they wanted to give this Stage 1 communicator the gestalt-that-matched the experience — once they knew what that experience was! Not able to provide the right soundtrack on-the-fly (because they had to program the device the night before), they decided to put in three gestalts, one for each of the possible experiences! Listen to Nellie’s reasoning; can’t argue with that!!

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“This is the language course we missed in school”

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NLA SLP International Registry POLICIES

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:

Autistic SLP, specializing in ND-affirming client and family support
Multilingual; Indian subcontinent languages
Extensive experience 18 months-18 years
Experience with early childhood Stages 1, 2, and 3
Experience with children 18 months-10 years
Experience with older students up to 18-years
Experience with all ages through early 20s
Clinic-based and School-based experience and 2 NLA courses
In-home experience after taking the Natural Communication course in Spanish
Clinic-based experience with bilingual Hindi and English; completed Uncleft course
Team-based services in ND-affirming Elementary School
Currently taking the Natural Communication course after completing the Meaningful Speech course
OT supported co-treatment with some of our clinic-based clients using NLA and sensory integrative strategies
Actively learning about AAC supports for GLPs
AAC experience with apraxic/dyspraxic individuals and GLPs University clinic-based services for ALPs and GLPs of all ages
Remote services in underserved communities
Providing virtual consultative services in these locations

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.