The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) was developed to help young children with autism learn to initiate requests and communicate their needs.
The six phases of PECS are carefully structured to enable the child to:
learn the picture exchange
actively find someone to give a symbol to as a request
discriminate between several symbols
use a portable communication book
construct simple sentences, both requests and comments.
PECS has been shown to facilitate the development of spoken words, and establishes the basics of communication in advance of the hoped-for emergence of speech. Children learn to communicate with PECS because they are highly motivated to request a wanted item and because PECS teaches visually explicit skills, using only physical prompts which can be gradually faded, thus avoiding the child becoming prompt dependent. PECS is easy to use and does not involve expensive equipment, testing or training.......(from.. http://www.nas.org.uk )
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