January 2025 Journal Club Registration

VSHA Journal Club: Natural Language Acquisition and Gestalt Language Processing Analysis

Cost: Free

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

Article: Natural language acquisition and gestalt language processing: A critical analysis of their application to autism and speech language therapy (sagepub.com)

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 statement: 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

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