by Helen Driver with Henrietta McLachlan.

This invaluable 78-page book provides detailed information about how to recognise Gestalt Language Processors, strategies to develop autistic individual’s skills through the different stages of Gestalt Processing and how to support their communication and emotional wellbeing through a Total Communication Approach.

The book focuses on recognising and supporting individual needs across the stages and includes suggestions of strategies which have been effective for many GLP autistic learners.

The book is relevant for those working with autistic children and young people in mainstream settings and specialist provisions. It explores how to support autistic children and young people who communicate through talking but also non-speakers and AAC users. The book adopts a Total Communication Approach.

It has been written to be accessible to parents, learning support assistants, teachers and speech and language therapists to use in their daily work. It is the core reading material for the accredited course Supporting Gestalt Language Processing – a Total Communication Approach.

It addresses many areas including:

• Neurodiversity - The implications for a Total Communication Approach
• What is Gestalt Language Processing?
• Identifying Gestalt Language Processing and the stages
• The importance of echolalia
• Assessment and target setting for the GLP
• Supporting children and young people with Stages 1 and 2 of Gestalt Language Processing
• Supporting children and young people with Stages 3 and 4 of Gestalt Language Processing
• Supporting children and young people with Stages 5 and 6 of Gestalt Language Processing
• Support for the non-speaker
• Behaviour support