About PECS
An alternative/ augmentative communication system developed in the USA in 1985.
What is Picture Exchange Communication Systems?
How to communicate, distance & persistence, picture discrimination, sentence structure, responsive & requesting, and commenting.
What are the six phases of PECS?
Something that increases the likelihood that a specific behavior or response will occur.
What is a reinforcement?
The first people who implemented with pre-school students diagnosed with autism at the Delaware Autism Program.
Who are Andy Bondy and Lori Frost?
Individuals learn to exchange single pictures for items or activities they really want.
What is PECS Phase I?
This individual prompts the client from behind and does not interact with the client in any social manner.
Who is physical prompter?
The teaching protocol this communication system is based on.
What is applied behavior analysis (ABA)?
Individuals learn to select from two or more pictures to ask for their favorite things.
What is PECS Phase III ?
This individual immediately honors the exchange as a request.
Who is a communication partner?
This communication system allows a specific group of people to have functional communication.
Who are individuals with various cognitive, physical and communication challenges?
Individuals are taught to comment in response to questions such as, “What do you see?”, “What do you hear?” and “What is it?” They learn to make up sentences starting with “I see”, “I hear”, “I feel”, “It is a”, etc.
What is PECS Phase VI?
Users should have access to the communication system at all times and anywhere; at home, school, and during community activities.
What is PECS book?
This type of prompt is not used, thus building immediate initiation and avoiding prompt dependency.
What is verbal prompt?
Individuals learn to expand their sentences by adding adjectives, verbs and prepositions.
What is attributes & language expansion?
A strategy that can be used by classroom teachers to determine the items, activities, and events that a student finds motivating.
What is a preference assessment/ reinforcement assessment?