A short and sweet intro to NLA. It was delightful talking to Manaal Tariq! The daughter of a Speech Pathologist in our group, Manaal is an astute and articulate advocate for GLPs
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!
This is a FREE one-hour, pre-recorded introductory presentation that describes the overall concept of gestalt language processing (GLP), provides some of the history of the scientific evidence, and provides a brief overview of the stages of Natural Language Acquisition (NLA).
Making Sense of Echolalia:
It’s All About Language Development!
Gestalt Language Development: the ‘Other' Natural Language Acquisition Style!
Echoes of Echolalia: Looking at Autistic Language Development Through a New Lens
AAC: Connecting with Language Learners
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.