Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

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This search will find all words using these letters, and only these letters, in our word list of over 221,719 words. Use the buttons below the word list to sort the words by length, and then reverse the list to place the longest words first. Get more words with these letters. For instance, Scrabble is one of the most popular word games in the world, and requires players to rearrange random letter tiles into meaningful words. Other word scramble type games include Boggle and Jumble, in which players are given jumbled letters of a single word. Plenty of word scramble games also exist for the digital crowd, including Words with Friends. Words with Friends is a very popular game that functions much like Scrabble and requires players to create words out of random jumbled pieces. Wordscapes is another popular game that requires players to rearrange letters to form words. Of course, there are also classic games like word searches and crosswords, which are similar to word scrambles. Ways to improve at word scramble games? But not so with our kids! In our clinic, we see older kids, even teenagers, who are learning rule-based grammar…some for the first time! With older kids like Will, who was highlighted in our last column, the process of breaking down language “wholes” or “gestalts” doesn’t happen as rapidly or as readily as it does with kids who are younger. But it still happens! We will return to these older kids in a later column, but, now, we want to give you a longitudinal picture of how the language acquisition process works when ASD kids begin it sooner. As promised, 4-year-old Dylan’s [‘Daniel’ from our previous column] progression through the first three stages of Gestalt Language Acquisition (See Sidebar) will be detailed in this column. Cam’s mother was fortunate. Even though Cam was moderately dyspraxic, and mostly silent up until then, he did have the motor strength and coordination to say something at a relatively young age. Those children who are more severely dyspraxic might not say anything intelligible for many more years, and parents’ glimpses of gestalt thinking and processing might not appear through language for a very long time. His mother’s fierce and bruising ambition instilled in him an overwhelming drive to leave his mark upon the world. His father, a revered high-school English teacher who was timid outside the classroom, introduced him to the rich world of literature—and also passed on to him his doubts and insecurities. Freedman retraces his intellectual formation as a student, educator, scholar, and leader, from his early?obsession with book collecting through his undergraduate years at Harvard and his professional training at Yale Law School. This same passion for language and ideas defined Freedman’s leadership at Dartmouth, where he deftly countered lingering anti-Semitism, fought entrenched interests to open the way for women and minorities, reformed and revitalized the curriculum, and boldly reconceived the school’s campus.

letters, so make sure you only do so when you can’t play any words that will score you more than a few An impressive story, yes…but unusual only in the speed with which Bevin successfully mitigated from his gestalts, and generated his own, original sentences. His process is the same one we see with every child we have worked with in Natural Language Acquisition! For starters, our kids (excluding those with Aspergers, of course) rarely “get” language without a struggle. For most extremely right-brained children, those with ASD diagnoses, the tendency to rely on strengths and avoid relative challenges, undermines the unaided progression of the natural gestalt language acquisition process. Bored with your current crossword puzzles and looking for a new challenge? Then why not try our daily crossword puzzles. We can find children all around us who are gestalt language learners. Many of them are little boys who tell long, complex stories, mostly with their hands and action figures, and whose lengthy “jargon” is completely unintelligible! By the time these children are four and five years old, they have successfully analyzed their long story chunks (they really were word strings, not “jargon” at all, but too hard to pronounce by young tongues!) into phrases and single words, have learned to say these shorter sound sequences correctly, and have built up a sizable repertoire of original, generative sentences. They may appear “delayed” compared with their more analytical (often female) kindergarten peers, but that is what we “expect” of boys!By our fourth month, Dylan was mitigating routinely. He used, “I got it!” (a modeled gestalt), but also changed it to “We got it!. During a paper-cutting activity, Dylan produced all of the following: like "Q" and "X"). As a defensive player, it’s your job to try to prevent your opponent from being able to Place your high-scoring letters on bonus squares (i.e., double/triple letter and word spaces) whenever you

Scrabble," and trademarked it in 1948. After many decades of being distributed by game manufacturer Selchow & It will probably seem like a “foreign language” to you for a while, so try to continue to say it to yourself as the day goes on. As it slowly becomes “your own”, you can begin to talk like your child, with his sound sequenes, tone, and language. You may have no idea what’s important about it until you’ve mumbled it to yourself all morning…finally experiencing the “Aha!” of knowing what language it represents, where you’ve heard it before…and, maybe, what it might mean to your child! A powerful account of one father’s journey through unimaginable grief, offering readers a new vision for how to more actively and fully mourn profound loss. The animation and language of movies make them a hard act to follow. Fortunately, real life provides the motor experiences our kids crave, and people who know how to make them fun! Our play had to be active and exciting, and our language had to be delivered with enthusiasm and all the theatrics we could muster. Predictable, “transparent,” developmentally appropriate language can be deadly-dull, unless we make it otherwise! We wanted to compete successfully with Hollywood, so we created extremely fun, movement-based experiences (think, “sensory integration”), that just happened to include basic sentence forms like, “Let’s…”, “Hey, it’s…”, etc. Somehow we did it, because a few months later, Dylan routinely extracted these types of phrases from our language, and produced his own recombinations!

Few books have captured, with such painful grace, the reality of catastrophic loss like Colin Campbell’s. My heart broke open reading Finding the Words. In this beautiful and poetic narrative, Ruby and Hart’s dad takes the reader on a winding road of emotions, from grief and loneliness to meaning and threads of hope. I wept many kinds of tears reading this book. And I am better for having read it.” No I really agree with that, it’s as if our totality as people and our life experience is completely This is a moving and fascinating account of a bright and ambitious young Jew trying self-consciously to break out of small-town New England to achieve greatness. The story is heroic, but it is not without pathos. This is really a book about books—how beautiful they are, and how the examined life cannot be lived without them, since they have been the mirror in which Freedman learned to see himself."—Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University Will’s mother called me about a year ago. She was wondering if speech and language therapy might be a good idea for her 14-year-old son who used some functional, scripted language, which was limited to what he’d been directly taught. What we did with Daniel’s family was create home-made videos they could watch together. We made sure our language was fun and lively, like Walt Disney’s, but more predictable, and lent itself to ready mitigation. Repetitive games and stories were also created so Daniel could hear, “Let’s play with the…” and “It’s a…” a bizillion times a day. When Daniel was ready for Stage 2 of the gestalt language acquisition process (mitigation) he knew that “Let’s play with the…” could be extracted from the many examples he heard daily, and that “It’s a…” could be equally mitigated from the wholes.