Picture Exchange Communication System

INTRODUCTION: Being able to express ones’ self in an effective manner is a vital thing that everyone must learn to do. They say that Communication is an essential part of our daily life where thoughts and ideas, feelings emotions, likes, and dislikes is exchanged. When it comes to children, it is already given that adults can’t be choosy or particular about how they say their words or how they express themselves. They are still in the process of learning and most people think that, with little…

Focus your attention to the world around you. Your interpretations rely on your ability to relate to the outside world, express yourself as an individual with communication and gestures, and create lasting relationships through social interactions. However, these are foreign concepts to over two million individuals in the United States alone diagnosed with the third most common developmental disability. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex neurological developmental disorder with symptoms…

take for granted their ability to communicate. From the moment we get up to the time we put our heads back on the pillow we are constantly communicating to those around us. In special education class rooms there are several proficient ways of communication. The children have different ways of communicating with the teacher and vice versa. I am going to talk about the different approaches as a teacher you can make to improve the quality of the way you communicate with the children in your special…

Communication (speech and language) is so important, it affects who we are, how we learn, and how we interact with others around us. Language and speech help children learn new things whether it be at school or outside of school, make friendships, describe their feelings, find employment as adults, get directions, etc. Having the ability to speak is so vital, it helps us do almost everything in life. When a child is unable to speak, they can exhibit behavioral problems. Some children exhibit…

Assignment 1: Challenging behaviour& communication (15%) Challenging behaviour is defined as the behaviour which interferes with children’s learning, development and successful play. It can be harmful to the child, other children or adults and also put a child at a high risk for later social problems or school failure. However it can occur due to the life changes such as a family move, parental separations, new siblings, recent changes made within the classroom settings and other major events.…

Picture Exchange Communication System: Autism Spectrum Disorders The study included children aged between 18 to 60 months with diagnosis of autism and with having little or no functional language. The 18 participants were divided into two groups which one was the experimental group and the other was the control group. In the six month study, the experimental group received the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) whereas the control group received the Conventional Language Therapy (CLT)…

I am an Intervention Specialist in a classroom with students in middle and high school grades. I teach a class with eight students each with severe multiple disabilities. Many students are functioning at a pre-school level or lower and are pre-readers. Each student receives small group and individual instruction, along with intense pull-out therapy sessions. All materials I have three students who have visual impairments, and two students that have no usable vision. Two students have a Cortical…

sense that communication is bounded by the pictures available at the time—if there isn’t a picture for something, the person can’t ask for that object very easily. c. Reliance on pictures as a form of communication is correlated with aggressive tendencies, suggesting that this intervention might increase aggression and other externalizing behaviors. d. Few individuals with autism can actually use this system because it takes a long time to associate pictures with the actions/exchanges, and this…

grunts). Once baseline data had been collected and analyzed to determine the frequency and duration of the behaviors, three weeks of treatment followed. The treatment involved the implementation of a teacher designed picture exchange communication system that incorporated actual pictures of objects in the subject’s classroom and school environment. Boardmaker, software program created by Mayer-Johnson, was used for the development…

social interaction, severe delays or lack of language communication skills, and repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior. When working with children with ASD, the Responsively Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching (RPMT) and the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)…