In this paper we want to explore ways that we as music therapists can support gestalt language acquisition in early childhood development. Gestalt learners tend to memorise chunks or scripts of intonation rich language, which they may use in ways that don’t always clearly apply to the situation at hand. These gestalts can come from an array of visual and audio media including songs, TV shows, movies, or YouTube. In the past these echolalic scripts, whether they were immediate or delayed, weren't always seen as communicative and were sometimes regarded as verbal stimming. If we reframe the utterances as communicative, try to analyse where the fragments, chunks or scripts have come from, and what their meanings are, we can support children to break them down and use them with more power. SLP’s support gestalt learners to mitigate or break down these chunks of language so that they can eventually begin to generate their own grammar. Gestalt language acquisition is common but not exclusive to children on the autism spectrum. Our training as RMT’s didn’t touch upon this style of language acquisition, although speech and language pathologists have been building their understanding of how to support such learners since the mid 1970’s. For intonation rich learners, music therapy is an obvious support modality. Some great results are gained through creative child led play, in which an individual child’s preferences and choices lead the therapy. We thought that this was a perfect fit with the topic of this year’s conference… with a focus on creative ways of working with neurodiverse children and children from culturally diverse backgrounds. In our presentation we will talk through the stages of Gestalt language acquisition and Natural language acquisition demonstrating how to recognise where the child is at. We will present several videos demonstrating different ways that clients might use gestalts, and demonstrate the support that can be given through music therapy to affirm the gestalts and enrich or vary them to support client generated grammar.