PECS

Here is an example picture of PECS for you to see. PECS stands for Picture Exchange Communication. Basically it's a book with pictures Velcroed to it and a little empty space at the bottom. The child find the picture(s) in the book needed for the specific communication and puts them at the bottom of the book in the empty slot, and gives it to the person/caregiver they would like to communicate with at that moment. As I said before, this was HIGHLY suggested for Caden, since his words are very limited to begin with and there are quite a few signs that he doesn't know, nor do we. So this would be able to be used in conjunction with words and or signs or in place of if no signs or words are available at that time. I will have to do some further research on this particular item, price it out or see how I can go about making it ourselves and see if it will be something we can do to help Caden along. I know also that there is training involved in this too, so it's something that we again will have to bring up to school.