Bernhard Schieber

PECS as Any Picture-Based Communication

Knowledge

Pictures alone do not make an intervention PECS. Its exchange, initiation, and teaching sequence distinguish it from visual schedules and other AAC supports. Identify the procedures actually used before assigning the label or applying evidence from PECS studies to a different intervention.

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Editorial orientation · Family

Tool

In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.

Editorial orientation · Category

Intervention Methods & Practices

Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.

Executive Insight BriefPicture Exchange Communication System (PECS): Make Functional Initiation the Outcome, Not Picture UseRead the brief →

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