The Picture Exchange Communication System Developed by Andy Bondy, Ph.D. And Lori Frost, M.S.,CCC/SLP

Presented by-Kathy Holeman

Introduction  Child Characteristics  - Behavior excesses  throwing, self-injury,running away  - Skill deficits  speech, gestures,eye contact

The Pyramid Approach to Education Purpose The Base The Top

Getting Ready for Pecs Reinforcer Assessment Setting the Stage for Communication

Phase I-How to Communicate  Goal: Approach people to initiate communication

Phase I- How to Communicate  Plan to teach with a variety of reinforcers  One picture at a time  2-Person prompting strategy  Physical prompter says NOTHING  Prompter only assists student with movement  Pick-up, Reach, Release Picture

Phase I – How to Communicate  First reinforcer is free  Open hand from communicative partner  Symbol modifications

Phase II- Distance and Persistence Goal: Go get picture, find the listener, take picture to listener

Phase III-Discrimination  Goal: Choose from among many symbols in their communication book  Preferred vs. non-preferred  Colors vs. black & white  Physically rearrange pictures

Phase IV- Sentence Structure  Goal: use simple sentence to request spontaneously

IMPORTANT NOTE:  NEVER DEMAND SPEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If the child speaks words give them an extra reward If the child goes back to non verbal response, just give the item

Phase V- Answering “What do you want?” Plan to teach a variety of forms of requesting structured and unstructured

Phase VI- Commenting  Goal: Student should be able to communicate with anyone, anywhere

Attributes Goal: teach 3-picture sentence construction

DO NOT TAKE AWAY SKILLS  Never take away pictures