In our last blog, we discussed the different ways children process language, and how some children are gestalt language processors. How can you tell if your child is a gestalt language processor? One telltale sign is if your child repetitively reproduces phrases. We...
It might seem like children all develop language the same way—they learn some words, then sentences, and finally they can have a conversation with you. But there are two ways to develop language: analytic language processing and gestalt language processing. ...
By Josie Mlynarski, SLP Graduate Student Have you ever heard of Gestalt Language Processing? Typically, when we think of language development, we are speaking in terms of analytic language processing, which is the process of building language from small...
What is gestalt language processing? Children who use echolalia are ‘gestalt language processors,’ meaning they process early language in ‘whole’ strings of sounds, or ‘chunks’, rather than processing single words. Gestalt language processors are not limited to...
