If you have been searching online recently to figure out more about your child’s communication, you might have come across a new term: gestalt language processing . For many families, this is the first time they’ve heard it, and it can sound a bit overwhelming at first. So let’s break it down. When we think about language development, most of us will be familiar with the idea that children learn individual words first (“milk”, “more”, “teddy”) and gradually combine them into longer sentences....

Children typically start to stammer around the ages of two to five.  At this age, children undergo fantastic leaps in their speech,...

The communication tree is a helpful analogy that illustrates how children develop the ability to understand and use language. Like any...