The following resources are about GLP / NLA, that we found helpful. They also include different examples of autistic communication and relationships to language, especially for non-speaking people, that are outside of the GLP framework, and we found critical to understanding how GLP alone doesn't explain our kid's communication.
General resources on Gestalt Language Processing
- Communication Development Center by Marge Blanc, one of the foremost experts on GLP
- Natural communication with affordable trainings
- Natural Language Acquisition textbook by Marge Blanc. Some of us found it incredibly helpful for our non-speaking kids, and others less so.
- MeaningfulSpeech - has great trainings and handouts. Tends to be geared towards those who have easy access to speech or use AAC in typical ways.
- The Melody Method is a training about music and Gestalt Language Processors
Experiences of echolalia and Gestalt Language Processing
- Scripts, a communication bridge - Non-speaker Emma asked her parent to write a description of using scripting to show anxiety
- Metaphors are Important - an Ethnography of Robotics - Julia Bascom on her experience with echolalia, remixing, and recombining
- About “Functional Play” - Julia Bascom on her experiences with echolalia / scripting as practicing different sentence structures / playing with language
- Echolalia and scripting - Cynthia Kim on her experience with scripting being functional sometimes, but also sometimes non-functional
- I’m echolalic, not a gestalt language processor - Tuttle on being more complicated than a simple GLP box
- The naked mechanisms of echolalia - mel baggs on how ze scripts
On AAC being broad and multi-modal
- Parent of a non-speaker who uses YouTube to communicate
- Parent of a non-speaker who uses GoogleMaps to communicate
- A year in the life of a multi-modal communicator - A year documenting all the ways their 4 year old communicated
- Neuromess’ reflections on AAC - Autistic parent on how modeling and using AAC for their non-speaking GLP kid was totally different than they first thought
- N of 1 and home videos - Parent on their kid using home videos to communicate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWBkXdo53dk
On language being completely different
- S/pace - a video by a non-speaker on their relationship to language
- Dismantling the Garden Walls - DJ Savarese on multimodal communication and their experience with AAC and how they naturally use language
- Disabled Language - Tuttle on using language that does not sound neurotypical
- Up in the Clouds and Down in the Valley - mel baggs on a relationship to language that isn’t neurotypical
- How we communicate - a podcast by non-speaker Emma on how she communicates, and specifically her relationship to music
- Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: A crip linguistics manifesto - A research manifesto on cripping language
Other resources on language and speech
- Finding the Words, when they are pictures - an article by Marge Blanc about visual thinkers, and how to meet those kids where they are. This was written in 2006 so has some antiquated terminology!
When Speech Gets Stuck - an article by Marge Blanc about supporting folks with dyspraxia