Today’s episode features an essay by Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, a Gestalt Language Processor (GLP), tracing her painful yet transformative path to literacy. Though raised in what educators call a “print-rich environment,” she found the endless shelves of books less an invitation than a taunt. In school, phonics-based instruction left her humiliated, her gestalt way of processing language—as echoes, melodies, and whole patterns—dismissed as failure. Only in her thirties did a mentor recognise that the fault lay in the method, not the learner, unlocking at last the world of books she had always longed for. Accompanied by an evocative portrait of the author in her childhood library and an original poem, the piece stands both as a testimony of belated belonging and a defiant challenge to those who continue to gatekeep literacy and dismiss GLP as unproven.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/when-the-evidence-is-lived-literacy
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