Hidden in the criteria: re-reading autism measures for evidence of Gestalt Language Processing

Hoerricks, J. (2026). Hidden in the criteria: re-reading autism measures for evidence of Gestalt Language Processing [Report]. Towcester Abbey. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21281975

Publication date: 9 Jul 2026 Added to AutiHub: 8 Aug 2026 Type: Report Article language: English

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This research brief argues that existing autism diagnostic and phenotypic instruments contain language-relevant evidence that is often dispersed across deficit-coded domains — echolalia, pragmatic impairment, adaptive communication, developmental delay — without being recognised as a coherent pattern. Rather than treating Gestalt Language Processing (GLP) as requiring wholly new data collection, the brief proposes a construct-validity agenda for re-reading item-level variables within established autism datasets, including SPARK, for GLP-proxy signals. Published as part of the Towcester Abbey Research Brief / Occasional Paper Series.

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