Curso asincrónico (pregrabado): Este curso fue creado para terapeutas del lenguaje (logopedas, fonoaudiólogos, y profesionales que trabajan en el campo de la terapia del lenguaje en sus respectivos países). La terapia del habla para niños autistas es muy distinta a la terapia que nos enseñaron en la universidad- No podemos trabajar de la misma forma con ellos porque no están adquiriendo el lenguaje de la misma forma que los niños alistas. Por eso, vimos la importancia de hacer un curso para TLs para “desaprender” algunas cosas y aprender información nueva sobre cómo seguir el camino natural del lenguaje a través de la Adquisición Natural del Lenguaje (ANL).
In Paulina’s first story, she describes a little one who used English and Hindi, and especially loved scripts from SpongeBob. She describes how he progressed from not being acknowledged at all, to Stage 3, and beginning Stage 4 after a year. Paulina was able to reassure his family that the incorrect grammar of Stage 4 is a mark of self-generated language.
Paulina describes her first assessment session with a four-year-old from a mono-lingual English-speaking family who was described as not talking. But Paulina had asked the right questions of his mom to make their first session successful. Paulina was able to connect with her new client by using his gestalt as he’d tried to match the intonation of a counting video in Spanish: ‘uno.dos.tres.cuatro.’ Their immediate connection got their therapeutic relationship off to a flying start!
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
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“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.