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- Title
“Brief Report: Increase in Production of Spoken Words in Some Children with Autism after PECS Teaching to Phase III”.
- Authors
Carr, Deborah; Felce, Janet
- Abstract
The context for this work was an evaluation study [Carr, D., & Felce, J. A. (in press)] of the early phases of the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) [Frost, L. A., & Bondy, A. S. (1994). The picture exchange communication system training manual. Cherry Hill, NJ: Pyramid Educational Consultants, Inc.; Frost, L. A., & Bondy, A. S. (2004). The picture exchange communication system training manual, 2nd edn. Newark, DE: Pyramid Educational Consultants, Inc.]. This paper reports that five of 24 children who received 15 h of PECS teaching towards Phase III over a period of 4–5 weeks, showed concomitant increases in speech production, either in initiating communication with staff or in responding, or both. No children in the PECS group demonstrated a decrease in spoken words after receiving PECS teaching. In the control group, only one of 17 children demonstrated a minimal increase and four of 17 children demonstrated a decrease in use of spoken words after a similar period without PECS teaching.
- Subjects
SPEECH education; TRAINING manuals; FOREIGN language education; TECHNICAL manuals; LANGUAGE &; education; FLUENCY (Language learning); EDUCATIONAL consultants; CURRICULUM consultants; READING specialists
- Publication
Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 2007, Vol 37, Issue 4, p780
- ISSN
0162-3257
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10803-006-0204-0