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My son (6) is a #GestaltLanguageProcessor #GLP. I would really appreciate anyone who learns language this way sharing any insights & ideas about how best to support & validate him. He uses an AAC and works with neurodiversity affirming SLPs & music therapist. He is great & deserves my A game. Thanks
Alt text: Image collage of Brazilian actress Renata Sorrah looking pensive and slightly confused, overlaid with various mathematical formulas, geometric diagrams, and trigonometric charts. The caption reads: “When you forget what you were thinking so you re-create the chain of thoughts that lead to that thought.” Commentary: For a gestalt language processor, this meme lands almost too close to home. Forgetting a thought isn’t just a blank screen—it’s like dropping the thread of a tapestry and then having to walk back through every knot, colour, and texture to find where it left your hands. Each mental image, phrase, or remembered tone is a potential breadcrumb. We don’t simply retrace logic—we reconstruct an emotional and sensory chain of scripts, moments, and echoes, each one linked not by grammar but by resonance. The maths here is apt—not because we’re calculating, but because each step feels like moving through a proof. The original gestalt might have been sparked by the way someone’s voice caught mid-sentence, or by a fragment of a song lyric, or by a story you once read. To get back there, you have to lay out the full constellation of connections—no skipping steps—until the missing piece finally clicks into place. It’s not linear recall; it’s re-running the entire network until it hums again.
It’s a strange thing, realising—years or decades after the fact—that you didn’t acquire language in the way you were told all humans must.
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That's why I wrote Holistic Language Instruction—to offer an alternative for native English speakers navigating literacy outside the analytic norm. And it's why I followed it with Decolonising Language Education-to make space for non-native speakers, often multiply marginalised, whose gestalts are shaped by migration,... Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
It’s a strange thing, realising—years or decades after the fact—that you didn’t acquire language in the way you were told all humans must.
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For GLPs, language is not acquired like a skill or triggered like a circuit. It is relived, remixed, and recalled. Not decoded, but reconstructed. Not parsed, but felt. Not universal, but particular-layered, relational, recursive. Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
It’s a strange thing, realising—years or decades after the fact—that you didn’t acquire language in the way you were told all humans must.
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But what if language isn't something that only lives in the brain? What if it also lives in gesture, rhythm, pause, co-regulation? What if it's relational, not internal? Shared, not generated? Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
It’s a strange thing, realising—years or decades after the fact—that you didn’t acquire language in the way you were told all humans must.
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Linguistic correctness is not neutral—it is political. And the LAD, with its assumption of an internal grammar processor functioning identically across all humans, quietly encodes a particular gendered, classed, and racialised speaker: fluent, male-coded, monolingual, analytic. Everyone else becomes deviation. Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
It’s a strange thing, realising—years or decades after the fact—that you didn’t acquire language in the way you were told all humans must.
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Language for us is episodic before it is grammatical. We often use full phrases before we can use a single word reliably. We echo before we can generate. We blend languages or voices when that's what we've learned to do to make sense of the world. Meaning is primary; grammar, if it comes at all, comes later. Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
It’s a strange thing, realising—years or decades after the fact—that you didn’t acquire language in the way you were told all humans must.
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Thus we begin with a simple recognition: that for many of us, especially autistic and disabled gestalt language processors, language was never acquired-it was survived, remembered, repeated, and eventually made our own. Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
It’s a strange thing, realising—years or decades after the fact—that you didn’t acquire language in the way you were told all humans must.
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AUTSiDE Each language I now operate in some form or another-five in all I learned. Not absorbed. Not decoded. Learned. Constructed. Rehearsed. Re-assembled. That fact alone unseats decades of linguistic theory-particularly the model that still, stubbornly, claims to describe all humans: Noam Chomsky's Language Ac... Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
It’s a strange thing, realising—years or decades after the fact—that you didn’t acquire language in the way you were told all humans must.
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It's a strange thing, realising-years or decades after the fact—that you didn't acquire language in the way you were told all humans must. Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
It’s a strange thing, realising—years or decades after the fact—that you didn’t acquire language in the way you were told all humans must.
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#autism #autistic #slp #glp #fyp #gestaltlanguageprocessor #AuDHD #neurodivergent #speechtherapy #NLA
The Search for Meaning Beyond the Clinic Eventually, you stumbled upon voices the clinic never introduced you to. Neurodivergent voices. Autistic voices. Adults who had lived some version of what your child is living now. Stories not from credentialled experts but from people who had carried the lived experience of scripts, of echolalia, of delayed functional language - and who had, somehow, grown into their words. And then, perhaps, you found me. An adult autistic. A gestalt processor. Someone who, like your child, once struggled to assemble language in ways others could easily receive. Who entered adulthood functionally illiterate. Who struggled through school, through systems that never quite knew what to do with me. Who spent years unable to write fluently - and now, after five decades lived across more than twenty cities, on three continents, in several languages, has authored more than ten books. For a moment, you allowed yourself to breathe. A spark of hope lit up: If she did it, maybe my child can too.
On the importance of lived experience, of listening to authentic stories …
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