Staff Credential Speech Therapy

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1. Facility name: Jumping Step by Step. Inc
Staff member: Nairedit Delgado
Staff credential: Speech Pathologist

2. Speech Therapy (1-hour observation)
PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System)

3. The benefits of the Picture Exchange Communication System are that facilitate the interaction of children using pictures; the child will spontaneously touch the picture to initiate communication. Children will expand their vocabulary, for PECS helps children to sequence pictures into a simple sentence.

4. The initial cost for purchasing the Picture Exchange Communication System is more or less 50 dollars.

5. The therapist showed to a three years old boy a board with pictures, and the child picked two pictures; the first was a picture

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