Picture Exchange Communication System 26-27

The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) was developed at the Delaware Autistic Program (DAP) and was designed to teach young children to communicate in a social context (Bondy & Frost, 1994; Frost & Bondy, 2002). Using PECS, learners are taught to give a picture of a desired item to a communicative partner in exchange for the item. There are six phases of PECS instruction, with each phase building on the last. The phases are: teaching the physically assisted exchange expanding spontaneity simultaneous discrimination of pictures building sentence structure responding to, “What do you want?” commenting in response to a question.Participants will be able to: define Picture Exchange Communication System® identify what skills to teach using PECS® identify the steps for implementing PECS® locate resources.

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