For a lot of mother and father, who’ve a non-verbal youngster, it’s irritating to look at their youngster and never be capable to determine learn how to assist them join with others, talk even their most straightforward wishes, or have them provoke interactions with adults or kids round them. One technique that has confirmed efficient over time in educating kids to speak in a step-by-step method that may also be used efficiently within the house is PECS or Image Trade Communication System. PECS makes use of footage or image symbols as an alternative of phrases to initially talk and encourages the kid to be the initiator of communication. It may be simply utilized by everybody within the kid’s atmosphere as a result of it would not require any specialised information or ability. Youngsters be taught to make use of footage given to somebody to get their needs and wishes met: by handing an image to somebody, they “tell” them what it’s they need.
We encourage mother and father to label all of the objects in the home by placing actual life footage or image symbols of every object at or near the article. Use double sided Velcro tape to connect footage and ensure to laminate footage: dealing with footage ceaselessly may cause them to tear or shred shortly! Mother and father could wish to connect footage of favourite meals or drinks within the fridge or cabinets on these locations, or favourite toys within the toy field, garments within the dresser, music or dvd’s on the case the place they’re saved. It is vital to consider what is very motivating to your youngster. For the kid who’s considering dinosaurs, or Thomas the Tank Engine Trains, or a favourite DVD or pc sport, it is vital to supply footage of these objects to allow them to tell us what they wish to speak about or request from us.You would possibly start by offering the kid with two or three objects they actually like in plastic containers with the matching footage on a desk in entrance of the article; as they attain for the article they need, assist them to succeed in for the image and provides it to you. After they hand you the image, you inform them, “Oh you want the cookie? Here’s the cookie” and hand them the true object. Proceed to encourage them to succeed in for the photographs of issues they need: it’s possible you’ll have to put objects out of attain and have footage inside attain; as you see what they’re taking a look at or reaching for, hand them the image, educating them by supplying you with the image they’ll get the article.As soon as they be taught that giving the image will get them what they need, increase their communication; we typically use phrases or sentences the kid fills in. We’d have laminated phrases that say “I want ____” and the kid provides the image of the article they wish to the phrase and we ask them to faucet at every phrase as we “read” collectively. As kids use phrases extra constantly we add extra vocabulary to assist them talk extra info: I need the blue shirt, or the crimson fireplace truck.
Photos or image symbols could also be hand drawn, they could be actual life pictures or symbols from revealed vocabularies repertoires similar to Mayer-Johnson. It would not matter what you select to make use of, solely that you just proceed to increase the alternatives for every youngster in order that as they develop and their pursuits change we proceed to present them the vocabulary they should talk.