Today’s episode explores the challenges faced by gestalt language processors (GLPs) within an educational system designed for analytic processors. The author of the source article, Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, shares her personal experiences of being misunderstood and mislabeled as a child due to her use of scripts as a form of language acquisition. She argues that schools systemically refuse to acknowledge GLPs, leading to functional illiteracy and a profound sense of misrecognition for these students. Dr. Hoerricks advocates for educators to recognise and scaffold GLP learning paths, treating scripts as legitimate communication, and ultimately working towards an inclusive educational future where literacy is understood as having multiple valid pathways. Her writing aims to bring visibility to GLPs and reform the current educational paradigm that often leaves them unseen and underserved.

Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/the-unfortunate-icebreaker-what-i

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