Any experience with PECS?
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Any experience with PECS?
| Thu, 10-20-2005 - 11:41am |
Hi-
I attended my DD staffing at her preschool yesterday and she is making wonderful strides etc and having a great time at preschool, but while she is a lot more verbal, it still isn't anywhere close to where she should be at 2 yrs 8 month. anywho, they wanted to try PECS so that she can have some form of communcation and to alleviate her fristration in that regard as she doesn't really tantrum, but you can tell when she is frustrated (cries but wipes her tears away furiously). I do remember it being mentioned but am doing research so I know about it....
ml

Yep, we used PECS a lot when Peter was younger. You can buy the cards for exorbitant money, but it's actually a great use for a digital camera.
Basically PECS is a way to help visual based learners and kids with communication problems to communicate and to learn spoken language. They may not understand the word for (say) "Mommy" but they understand a picture of her. Eventually, they connect the word to the picture, and in time, won't need the picture anymore. That's the basic idea.
We used to make picture schedules of my son's day (combos of drawings and photos): wake up, breakfast, get dressed, brush teeth, go to sitter's house, have lunch, bus, school, bus, sitter's house, mom, home. It helped him to understand what was happening next, and he could reference the pictures to show people stuff (i.e. point to the drink if he was thirsty). It helped us out a lot.
-Paula
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Thanks Paula... DD is in pre-school but she is still pretty young. Her receptive language appears to much have much of a delay but she is really having trouble with expressive.... I am hoping this works well for her. Luckily we live in an awesome school district and they are providing the cards to us for the great price of FREE!
ml
Hey, you can't beat free with a stick! Go for it! It can only help.
-Paula
visit my blog at www.onesickmother.com
PECS is the BOMB!!!
I love pecs. I used to be a EI home educator for autistic children. PECS was probably the best teaching tool in my arsenol at that age.
When Cait was that age she had langauge but it was all mixed up. COuldn't use it the right way, and was delayed by at least a year both receptive and expressive. But she had words, phrases and mixed up sentences. Not the typical PECS type kid but we used it for her to learn how to communicate. And it was awesome. We used it talking to her so she understood us with visual pictures and such. And we used it to teach her how to put sentences together and what to say.
Oh yeah, I highly highly highly recomend it.
Renee
Wow...that sounds like Hannah...expressive delay of about a year, but i really think her receptive delay is maybe only a couple of months, but the words she does have are sometime totally backwards...like she'll say "Go away" when she really means "Come get me" and some things are very clear and others are well.. I know she is expressing something because she will repeat it when I ask but I'd be lying if I said I had a CLUe what she wanted. i really hope this helps....We have her first IEP meeting on 11/2 so I am waiting to hear what the Psych says from her eval last week.......
but she did say when I met with her that she thought PECS would be very useful with Hannah...
ml
yep, that was like cait. Now if she says go away when she means she wants something it is because she is on the verge of teenage-hood, LOL. She would mix up yes and no. Had no clue what either meant. She spoke in ancient Yoda ("blue lunch want I" "White truck, yello house want") when she attempted original sentences or used echolalic phrases.
Now she flipping talks my ear off about animals, birthdays, and babies. She is too funny. She loves going up to adults to have conversations. Still working on that not interupting thing but she will just talk and talk forever if they will listen about animals and her pets. She also is/was hyperlexic (ability to read without being taught) and has great spelling, visual memory skills, and reading.
This is my view of Cait as an adult, and everyone thinks it is extremely accurate.
I picture Cait in a chair with her feet up by a window reading. there are no lights on either because she didn't think to turn them on or didn't think to pay the electric bill. Her fridge is filled with take out boxes. She is the "crazy cat lady" with loads of kitties. She takes frequent walks on the beach with her 3 dogs, probably barefoot and fancy free cause she hates shoes. Likely in a pair of jogging shorts and a t-shirt that are worn thin from loving too much. She probably works in an animal shelter or at a zoo and absolutely loves her job and is darn good at it so long as she doesn't have to deal with work place politics and the folks there understand her. She likely frequently forgets to pick up her paycheck, lol. There is plenty of dog and kitty food around though. She'd never neglect her babies.
But I see her as very happy, laid back gal. I just need to make sure to set up direct deposit and some sort of check system or helper to make sure she pays her bills and buys groceries and all else will be fine. I think she should get good at riding the bus though. She would just run out of gas to darn often, lol.
Actually, most likely she will live with her extremely organized OCD aspie brother who will obsess on make sure the bills get paid, house is clean, and food is purchased. And she will make sure he lightens up a bit. lol.
Renee