![]() She does use PECS pretty consistently at home and it’s her main form of communication at school. Her language was already heavily delayed and her SLP (Speech Language Pathologist) wanted to give her a form of communication that she could carry with her from school to home and home to school. Sweet B is up to Phase 6 in PECS and has been using PECS since she was about 3 years old. ![]() They learn to make up sentences starting with “I see”, “I hear”, “I feel”, “It is a”, etc. Now students are taught to comment in response to questions such as, “What do you see?”, “What do you hear?” and “What is it?”. Students learn to use PECS to answer the question, “What do you want?” Students learn to construct simple sentences on a detachable sentence strip using an “I want” picture followed by a picture of the item being requested. These are placed in a communication book-a ring binder with Velcro® strips where pictures are stored and easily removed for communication. Students learn to select from two or more pictures to ask for their favorite things. They are also taught to be more persistent communicators. Still using single pictures, students learn to generalize this new skill by using it in different places, with different people and across distances. ![]() Students learn to exchange single pictures for items or activities they really want. PECS is broken down into six phases and a student begins with Level 1 and progresses on.
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