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● PECS
● Social Skills
● Autism
PECS Examples
Requesting
Search Procedures
● Databases: Education Resources Information Center
(ERIC), Education Source, and British Education Index
● 1984 to present because 1984 was when PECS (Picture
Exchange Communication System) was created
● English only
● Peer-reviewed
The Search
Inclusion Criteria
● Autism= as defined as IDEA
○ Included participants with Autism and another disability
○ Included Aspergers
● Social skills= using language skills to interact with basic communication
skills and interpersonal skills with peers
○ Included peer interaction, language, and communication
● Peers= same age children who interact with each other in a school or public
setting
● PECS=an approach to emphasize non-verbal communication through
symbolism
● Included academic or domestic setting; Excluded clinics or medical
treatment centers
Article-Reviewing Process
● We read the abstracts and other parts of the article as
needed to determine if the article fit our inclusion
criteria.
● We followed the definitions for the terms and the
requirements for what was included or excluded.
● By the end of the reviewing process, there were ten
articles included.
Train peers
Summary of Findings
●
following specific
procedures
including modeling
● Use colored
pictures
● Implement with
fidelity
Negatives
Positives ● May be limited to requesting
● Works better than other similar items, not causal social
interventions conversations
● More effective with
● Increases functional
higher-functioning Autism, not
communication and the use of lower-functioning
symbols ● More commonly used between
● PECS can be used with peers and an adult and a student
adults. ● Special training for students to
use PECS with peers
● Can help students with
requesting items
Implications for Teachers
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When teaching directly teach it, especially to
nonverbal children. Teachers difference if you
Chaabane, D. B., Alber-Morgan, S. R., & DeBar, R. M. (2009). The effects of parent-implemented PECS
training on improvisation of mands by children with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 42(3),
671-677.
Gordon, K., McElduff, F., Wade, A., Charman, T., Pasco, G., & Howlin, P. (2011). A communication-based
intervention for nonverbal children with autism: What changes? Who benefits?. Journal Of Consulting &
Clinical Psychology, 79(4), 447-457. doi:10.1037/a0024379
Hartley, C., & Allen, M. L. (2015). Symbolic understanding of pictures in low-functioning children with
autism: The effects of iconicity and naming. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(1), 15-30.
Howlin, P., Gordon, R. K., Pasco, G., Wade, A., & Charman, T. (2007). The effectiveness of Picture
Exchange Communication System (PECS) training for teachers of children with autism: a pragmatic,
group randomised controlled trial. Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry, 48(5), 473-481.
Resources
Kodak, T., Paden, A., & Dickes, N. (2012). Training and generalization of peer-directed mands with
non-vocal children with autism. Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 28119-124
Kravits, T. R., Kamps, D. M., & Kemmerer, K. (2002). Brief report: Increasing communication skills for an
elementary-aged student with autism using the picture exchange communication system. Journal of
Autism & Developmental Disorders, 32(3), 225-230.
Odluyurt, S. s., Aldemir, O. o., & Kapan, A. a. (2016). An investigation on the effects of PECS and
observational learning in initiating and maintenance of communication among children with autism.
International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education, 8(2).
Paden, A. R., Kodak, T. t., Fisher, W. W., Gawley-Bullington, E. M., & Bouxsein, K. J. (2012). Teaching
children with autism to engage in peer-directed mands using a picture exchange communication
system. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 45(2), 425-429.
Resources
Sulzer-Azaroff, B., Hoffman, A. O., Horton, C. B., Bondy, A., & Frost, L. (2009). The Picture Exchange
Communication System (PECS): What do the data say?. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental
Disabilities, 24(2), 89-103.
Thiemann-Bourque, K. t., Brady, N., McGuff, S., Stump, K., & Naylor, A. (2016). Picture Exchange
Communication System and pals: A peer-mediated augmentative and alternative communication
intervention for minimally verbal preschoolers with autism. Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing
Research, 59(5).
Tincani, M., & Devis, K. (2011). Quantitative synthesis and component analysis of single-participant
studies on the Picture Exchange Communication System. Remedial And Special Education, 32(6),
458-470.
Yoder, P. J., & Lieberman, R. G. (2010). Brief report: Randomized test of the efficacy of Picture Exchange
Communication System on highly generalized picture exchanges in children with ASD. Journal of
Autism & Developmental Disorders, 40(5), 629-632.