Ep. 39: Supporting Gestalt Language Processors ft. SLP Alex Zachos
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What is the purpose of this episode and who are the hosts?
What's up everyone and welcome to Making the Shift.
We're an SLP couple from California with three boys and a passion for finding better ways to support autistic kids.
I'm Chris. You might know me as speech dude. I'm a Neurodivergent High School SLP and the creator of the Dynamic Assessment of Social Emotional Learning, and I specialize in crafting neurodiversity affirming IEPs through my online course.
And I'm Jesse, a sensory integration trained SLP, owner of a top-rated clinic in Los Angeles, and the creator of the Inside Out Sensory Communication Programs for Parents and Therapists. Join us weekly to learn neurodiversity affirming ways to support social, emotional development, and regulation in autistic kids.
Are you ready to make the shift?
Hello everyone and welcome to Making the Shift. Today we are so excited to have here our friend and fellow SLP, Alex Zakos. You probably know her as Meaningful Speech, and she is doing some incredible things, changing the way we think about our kids, our gestalt language processors. That's what we're gonna be talking about today. I was trying to remember how we met and I cannot remember. I'm sure it was online. But online. Yeah. When I first made it
onto Instagram.
Yes. So it's just so funny because we met and we kind of realized we were living these like parallel lives. We both had clinics that we were running while also building online businesses, online courses, while also parenting. And I don't know about you, but when I find someone who's that similar to me, I'm just like Cling on because it's really hard to find people who understand and you are always one of those people.
Aw, thanks. Yes. Lots of moving pieces all the time. Um, thank you both for having me here today.
Yeah, absolutely. This is gonna be such a fun topic and it's this is just like the game changer topic too, because You know, it's all still rel it it's relatively new for me, so Um really looking forward to just Covering this on the podcast and for the listeners and viewers out there, we're going to kind of just cover some of the Um uh the big picture type. Um information on
gestalt language processing. We're gonna
cover the gestalt of gestalt language processing.
And you're gonna learn that it's pronounced gestalt. Hey, or you just you know you just haven't made the switch. You haven't made the shift.
You know what's interesting about that is that I pronounce everything wrong.
You know what? Actually, Jesse, it's like tomato tomato. I've heard people say it both ways. Yeah, I just happen to say gestalt, but I've I've heard people say gestalt.
I've made the shift because I don't want to be the last person to make the shift. But before we get into that, we would just love to know a little bit more. Maybe you can share a little bit of kind of your background and like what you got you to where you are right now doing this.
Absolutely. Yeah. So um I have been a practicing speech language pathologist for 19 years, which always feels crazy to say out loud. Um And I've pretty much worked everywhere. So, you know, I did nine years in the schools. I spent time in early intervention, acute care, outpatient. I always kind of had like a side job to my full time job. I wanted to kind of you know, have my f my feet in the door of like all the aspects of our field. Um But I really, really came to love um working with autistic individuals. And in twenty twelve, when I um was pregnant with my first daughter, I just decided to take a year maternity leave from the schools and take the leap into private practice. Um, which is funny 'cause I was actually sharing with someone this morning that I did it for the flexibility, but little did I know how much more complicated
Come. With Jesse, you know, very well. Um, but it's all been a wonderful journey. So I'm in private practice for a couple of years and I get a lot of calls at that point in time about um, social groups. And um a lot of these kids that were coming in, parents were saying, Oh, they're struggling having conversations. But I was discovering they were communicating with delayed echolalia.
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