The Continued Relevance & Importance of PECS®

In this candid Q & A session, the developers of PECS® (Picture Exchange Communication System®) Andy Bondy, PhD, and Lori Frost, MS, CCC-SLP, discuss important topics including speech development and functional communication skills. They also address concerns and misconceptions about teaching strategies, such as physical prompting, and answer the question - Is PECS compliance-based? Other topics include the relevancy of PECS today and concerns about whether or not it inhibits speech. They end their discussion by answering questions from members of the PECS User Support Group on Facebook.

00:00 - Introduction
00:28 - Is PECS still relevant?
07:42 - Why not start with an SGD instead??
09:35 - Lori - as an SLP, what does it mean to you
to use a behavioral approach?
12:35 - Does using PECS inhibit speech? Does using an SGD guarantee that
kids will acquire speech?
14:01 - Is PECS Compliance based?
19:04 - Should we use physical prompting?
23:23 - FB Live Question 1 - Teaching 'Break'?
28:20 - Does a device (an SGD or speech app) help our students
learn to talk?
31:27 - FB Live Question 2: Some students have difficulty tolerating 'Break', so how do you teach them to tolerate it?
33:05 - Ending comments