Marge Blanc Webinars - Gestalt Language Processing and GLP AAC
Buttonloop is excited to be hosting Marge Blanc, MA CCC-SLP, for a FREE webinar series discussing Gestalt Language Processing. She is the Director of the Communication Development Center (CDC) in Madison, Wisconsin, the non-profit clinic she founded in 1997. Until two years ago, CDC provided individualized physical and linguistic support for neurotypical and neuro-divergent children and young adults with complex communication profiles. Now CDC is the center of a growing international effort to share research and resources about gestalt language development.
Marge began combining clinical practice and clinical research in 1994 after she met her first autistic client as a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Recognizing his ‘delayed echolalia,’ Marge delved into the work of Barry Prizant, Ann Peters, and other qualitative researchers who had documented gestalt language processing (GLP) as a way of processing language naturally — and outlined the stages of gestalt language development. After her client followed the stages in the way predicted by Prizant, Marge decided to follow Prizant’s recommendation to conduct research to describe that process in detail. Founding her clinic in 1997, Marge continued to document how GLPs develop language from ‘delayed echolalia’ to self-generated language. Marge coined the term Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) to describe that process, and to emphasize the fact that ‘echolalia’ is not a pathology and should be recognized as the first stage of gestalt language development.
Marge has been very generous with her time and will be doing four 2 hour webinars with us. The first two will discuss GLP (Gestalt Language Processing), followed by two more discussing AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) and GLP. When you register you will be signed up for all four of the webinars. AAC benefits everyone, both speaking and non-speaking, to improve communication, reduce frustration and enhance their quality of life. AAC doesn't replace speech, but rather supplements it, providing a wider range of communication options. It can help individuals express themselves more fully, participate more effectively in social situations, and navigate daily life with greater independence.
For more information about GLP and Natural Language Acquisition watch this video and send your questions in for the webinar with Marge:
Buttonloop is excited to be hosting Marge Blanc, MA CCC-SLP, for a FREE webinar series discussing Gestalt Language Processing. She is the Director of the Communication Development Center (CDC) in Madison, Wisconsin, the non-profit clinic she founded in 1997. Until two years ago, CDC provided individualized physical and linguistic support for neurotypical and neuro-divergent children and young adults with complex communication profiles. Now CDC is the center of a growing international effort to share research and resources about gestalt language development.
Marge began combining clinical practice and clinical research in 1994 after she met her first autistic client as a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Recognizing his ‘delayed echolalia,’ Marge delved into the work of Barry Prizant, Ann Peters, and other qualitative researchers who had documented gestalt language processing (GLP) as a way of processing language naturally — and outlined the stages of gestalt language development. After her client followed the stages in the way predicted by Prizant, Marge decided to follow Prizant’s recommendation to conduct research to describe that process in detail. Founding her clinic in 1997, Marge continued to document how GLPs develop language from ‘delayed echolalia’ to self-generated language. Marge coined the term Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) to describe that process, and to emphasize the fact that ‘echolalia’ is not a pathology and should be recognized as the first stage of gestalt language development.
Marge has been very generous with her time and will be doing four 2 hour webinars with us. The first two will discuss GLP (Gestalt Language Processing), followed by two more discussing AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) and GLP. When you register you will be signed up for all four of the webinars. AAC benefits everyone, both speaking and non-speaking, to improve communication, reduce frustration and enhance their quality of life. AAC doesn't replace speech, but rather supplements it, providing a wider range of communication options. It can help individuals express themselves more fully, participate more effectively in social situations, and navigate daily life with greater independence.
For more information about GLP and Natural Language Acquisition watch this video and send your questions in for the webinar with Marge:
Buttonloop is excited to be hosting Marge Blanc, MA CCC-SLP, for a FREE webinar series discussing Gestalt Language Processing. She is the Director of the Communication Development Center (CDC) in Madison, Wisconsin, the non-profit clinic she founded in 1997. Until two years ago, CDC provided individualized physical and linguistic support for neurotypical and neuro-divergent children and young adults with complex communication profiles. Now CDC is the center of a growing international effort to share research and resources about gestalt language development.
Marge began combining clinical practice and clinical research in 1994 after she met her first autistic client as a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Recognizing his ‘delayed echolalia,’ Marge delved into the work of Barry Prizant, Ann Peters, and other qualitative researchers who had documented gestalt language processing (GLP) as a way of processing language naturally — and outlined the stages of gestalt language development. After her client followed the stages in the way predicted by Prizant, Marge decided to follow Prizant’s recommendation to conduct research to describe that process in detail. Founding her clinic in 1997, Marge continued to document how GLPs develop language from ‘delayed echolalia’ to self-generated language. Marge coined the term Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) to describe that process, and to emphasize the fact that ‘echolalia’ is not a pathology and should be recognized as the first stage of gestalt language development.
Marge has been very generous with her time and will be doing four 2 hour webinars with us. The first two will discuss GLP (Gestalt Language Processing), followed by two more discussing AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) and GLP. When you register you will be signed up for all four of the webinars. AAC benefits everyone, both speaking and non-speaking, to improve communication, reduce frustration and enhance their quality of life. AAC doesn't replace speech, but rather supplements it, providing a wider range of communication options. It can help individuals express themselves more fully, participate more effectively in social situations, and navigate daily life with greater independence.
For more information about GLP and Natural Language Acquisition watch this video and send your questions in for the webinar with Marge: