Ming from Agents of Speech explains how to use role-play and props like a doctor's kit to help children with gestalt language processing break down large phrases into smaller, usable ones in speech therapy.
And speech therapy. There are times where we use gestalt language to our advantage, which is script therapy. And what is that? Let's say you're using a doctor's kit, you're bringing the patient in, you're pretending, and you're trying to use the scripting to help with their play because the language cannot analytically break down such a huge chunk as such as next patient, please come in is too long. But it becomes a script that's fun. And now you can teach play, and later on when the play catches up, and then you can use the play to teach a language. It's like play and language are two things that you need to teach play in order to have the context teach a language. Because remember, at the end of the day, what's the biggest problem with gestalt language processing or just children who are language delayed, is that they're using the wrong phrase, the wrong chunks for the wrong reason, and the wrong use. Right? So therefore, you need to explode the language, their play, so that you have more contexts and more uses that you can do, and then you can match it back with the correct phrases, words and whatever.
