Bernhard Schieber

Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)

Knowledge

PECS teaches initiated picture exchanges through a structured sequence. Evaluate independent communication, varied functions, partners, and settings rather than picture use alone. Speech development is a separate outcome, and the approach should remain one option within an individualized AAC assessment.

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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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