When Models Aren't "Sticking" - A One-Day Intensive for Supporting Minimally Speaking GLPs
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Feel like youâre spinning your wheels with a minimally or non-speaking gestalt language processor? Youâre modeling, staying regulated, following their leadâbut the gestalts arenât emerging, or the child is not progressing through the NLA stages, and youâre left wondering what to do next.
This 4-hour, live deep dive with Katja Piscitelli is designed to bring you clarity, direction, and real-world strategies to support communication growth in GLPs who arenât fitting the typical NLA patterns.
Whether youâre an SLP, educator, or caregiver, this intensive will give you the tools and confidence to move forwardâeven when speech feels stuck.
What Youâll Learn:
- How to identify dyspraxia in autistic children - it's not always obvious!
- Tailoring NLA supports for GLPs with suspected apraxia or dyspraxia
- Using motor speech intervention in a child-led, neurodiversity-affirming way
- How to apply Marge Blancâs Hierarchy of Dyspraxia Supports
- How to determine a minimally speaking childâs NLA stageâeven when it's not obvious
- Why "modeling without expectation" sometimes doesnât âstick,â and what to try instead
- How to tailor AAC systems for gestalt processors and those with motor planning challenges
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Enroll NowSupporting Grammar Acquisition for GLPs (NLA Stage 3+)Â
In this 2.5 hour course, you will get:
- 2.5 PDH hours w/ a certificate of completion that you can use towards ASHA ceu requirement.
- A better understanding of how to support grammar using the DSS and DST charts!
- In-depth explanation of NLA stages 3-6.
- Updated information on best practice for scoring GLP language samples using the NLA framework.
- Language sample scoring practice!
- Therapy video review.
- Access to my Later Stage GLP Handbook (28 pages)
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Purchase CourseFostering Language Growth in Early GLPs (NLA Stages 1+2)
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Are you looking for strategies to support gestalt language processors in the earliest stages of natural language acquisition (NLA)? This self-paced crash course is designed for speech-language pathologists (SLPs), parents, and other professionals who want to foster meaningful communication and language development for autistic children who are in NLA Stages 1 and 2.
What You'll Learn:
- Introduction to gestalt language and the Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) stages
- In depth explanation and video examples of NLA stages 1+2
- How to support language development in NLA stages 1+2
- Practical examples and video demonstrations to guide your practice
This 2-hour course is packed with actionable insights and resources, including:
- A 20+ page handbook about supporting NLA stages 1+2
- A gestalt tracker PDF
- A certificate of completion for 2 hours of continuing education
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