At the conclusion of this session, the participants will be able to:

• Outline the six stages of gestalt language development as described by NLA, compared with the stages of analytic language development.
• Describe the research that discovered, explored, and quantified gestalt language development.
• Outline general supports for gestalt language processors at all language development stages.
• Describe supports for gestalt language processors at each NLA Stage of gestalt language development.
• Write goal statements for gestalt language processors at each Stage of gestalt language development.
• Score a subset of utterances produced by a child at Stages 1-5 of gestalt language development.
• Describe characteristics of older gestalt language processors, and unique supports for older GLPs.
• Describe considerations for supporting non-speaking and minimally-speaking students who might be GLPs.
• Prepare a set of slides to use in an informal presentation to colleagues about NLA and gestalt language development.
• Outline considerations for using NLA in settings outside of clinical  settings.