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Teaching Children with Autism: Visual Supports: PECs (1436 words) |
 | PECS is appropriate for individuals who do not use speech or who may speak with limited effectiveness: those who have articulation or motor planning difficulties, limited communicative partners, lack of initiative in communication, etc. |
| I like, too, that PECS symbols are often very quickly acquired, and that they can be rapidly generalized across many aspects of the child's life, without having to teach staff, family, and peers a number of signs along with the child. |
| However, while there is little to support the idea that PECS (when done correctly) will impede development of speech, and in fact there is some evidence that the use of such systems enhances the development of speech (Silverman, 1996), the theory among some is that sign may be more effective in developing speech. |
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