Helps describe what PECS is and what it can do

1. PECS Picture Exchange
Communication System

2. Who can?
• To implement PECS one must complete a
two-tired PECS certification process

3. Who benefits most from PECS?
People of all ages with a range of disabilities
Commonly people with Autism and other
developmental disabilities

4. What does it able them to do?
• PECS enables them to create complex
sentences and does not limit them to a
few nouns

5. Imagine
• Could you imagine your world without
being able to communicate at all?!?!?
• I couldn’t…

6. Also helps…
• By teaching functional communication
My stomach
I need a
I need
I am in
I’m

7. Why
• One of the major characteristics with
Autism and developmental disabilities is
language communication
• Some are nonverbal with no
communication at all

8. Leads to…
Frustration Unhappiness Fear

9. Would you want your loved one
feeling this way…
I wouldn’t

10. Phase I & II
• Single icons are used
• No you do not need to be able to master
the matching skill
• Icons should be motivators and rein-
forcers

11. Phase III
• Focuses on building a vocabulary
• Discrimination level starts once students
has 6-12 pictures known
• Can then tell one from the other,
understanding what they mean
etc…

12. Phase IV
• “I want” icons
• Rein forcer (candy, cookie, drink)
• Placed on sentence strip pointed to in the
right order as you would read it

13. Phase V
• Opportunities for the person to request
something
• Hide tiles so they are not readily available,
make them have to look for them and get
them out

14. Phase VI
• Ability to request powerful rein forcers on
their own and in response to questions
• Move into commenting…
I like that That looks good
This taste good

15. Functioning
• To function in society we need to be able
to

16. Ability
• Being able to speak will open many doors

17. Expressing Feelings

18. Getting Help

19. Everyday Things…

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