Introduction
Charlie is a 6 years old boy living with his aunts and grandparents. He experiences problems with both speech and language. His method of communication includes pointing and noise making. When he tries to speak, one could barely understand what he is trying to say due to poor enunciation. Since the age of two, his family were very concern about his development. He tends to jump around babbling some jargons. He usually plays by himself, knocking on something while repeating the jargons and making noise with his mouth. Occasionally, he is overexcited for no particular reason. Sometimes, he laugh excessively and continue to laugh even harder when he is asked to stop. There are times when he gets frustrated when he is asked to stop …show more content…
His family did admit to trying to teach him sign to use whenever he needs something and also teaching him words but neither or these strategies were successful. Based on research done by professionals, they found out that one approach that can be use is the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS). This approach was developed by Pyramid Educational Consultants in 1985. Frost and Bondy (2002) defined it as a special argumentative/ alternative communication for individual with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other disabilities that are related to development. The IEP team believe that is the most appropriate approach for Charlie, not only does this approach boost children to start a conversation, but also focus on the individual interest each of the children. Charlie parents support this picture communication approach, they believe that it will facilitate communication among them and they seems ready to implement this approach. As part of the intervention, this approach will be used with Charlie both within the school and home environment, family and friend will learn this approach so that they could use it with
Charlie is a 6 years old boy living with his aunts and grandparents. He experiences problems with both speech and language. His method of communication includes pointing and noise making. When he tries to speak, one could barely understand what he is trying to say due to poor enunciation. Since the age of two, his family were very concern about his development. He tends to jump around babbling some jargons. He usually plays by himself, knocking on something while repeating the jargons and making noise with his mouth. Occasionally, he is overexcited for no particular reason. Sometimes, he laugh excessively and continue to laugh even harder when he is asked to stop. There are times when he gets frustrated when he is asked to stop …show more content…
His family did admit to trying to teach him sign to use whenever he needs something and also teaching him words but neither or these strategies were successful. Based on research done by professionals, they found out that one approach that can be use is the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS). This approach was developed by Pyramid Educational Consultants in 1985. Frost and Bondy (2002) defined it as a special argumentative/ alternative communication for individual with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other disabilities that are related to development. The IEP team believe that is the most appropriate approach for Charlie, not only does this approach boost children to start a conversation, but also focus on the individual interest each of the children. Charlie parents support this picture communication approach, they believe that it will facilitate communication among them and they seems ready to implement this approach. As part of the intervention, this approach will be used with Charlie both within the school and home environment, family and friend will learn this approach so that they could use it with