PECS Level 1
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2.-3.6.2025 | Englanninkielinen lähikoulutus: Espoo
Succeed in teaching communication skills using the PECS method.
An evidence-based functional communication system PECS protocol is based on Applied Behaviour Analysis, typical language development and B.F. Skinner’s Verbal Behaviour.
PECS level 1 training course is a comprehensive two-day training course which is designed to teach participants the theory and protocol behind the Picture Exchange Communication System™ (PECS). You will learn how to implement the six Phases of PECS™, including the attributes through presenter demonstrations, video examples and roleplay opportunities.
You will gain a broad understanding of how to implement PECS™ with individuals with autism, related developmental disabilities, and/or limited communication skills.
What you’ll learn:
- Identify learners who will benefit from PECS
- Describe 9 key components of creating effective learning environments using the Pyramid Approach to Education
- Explain differences between prerequisites for and long-term outcomes for PECS and other modalities such as speech, sign language, picture pointing, or speech generating devices
- Identify strategies to create communication opportunities during routines and functional daily activities
- Implement the 6 phases of the PECS protocol
- Name strategies for successfully saying, “No!”
- Discuss the evidence for PECS and speech development
- Examine the criteria for transitioning from PECS to other communication modalities
Instructor from Pyramid Educational Consultants UK.
Get Your Certificate!
At course completion, participants will receive a certificate of attendance, equipped with the skills to enhance their therapeutic practice.
Who this training course is for?
Open to all who would like to learn about PECS, such as speech therapists, paraprofessionals, behavior analysts, psychologists, social workers and/or other professionals who are providing services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Whether you have used PECS for some time or are new to the field, this workshop is an essential part of your development.
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All attendees will be provided with
- Second Edition PECS Training Manual
- Handout with activity packet
- Delegate Practise Bag
During the training course, lectures and group discussions are interspersed with skills training to facilitate the implementation of the CO-OP Approach in clinical practice.
Participants will leave the training with the skills necessary to teach spontaneous requesting, picture discrimination, sentence structure, attributes for expanding language, responding to questions, and commenting. The training course concludes with a review of the extensive literature supporting PECS as an evidence-based practice and information related to transitioning from PECS to other communication modalities, such as speech, tablets with AAC apps, or speech generating devices.
PECS is used with individuals who:
• Don’t initiate communication
• Use unintelligible spoken utterances
• Have difficulty combining words into phrases and sentences
• Don’t communicate via speech
PECS is used with individuals of all ages who have, for example:
• Autism
• Angelman’s syndrome
• Developmental verbal dyspraxia
• Down syndrome
• complex communication needs
• developmental delay
• genetic disorders
• head injury
Schedule.
- Workshop Outline Learner
- Objectives Overview of PECS
- Is the student a candidate for PECS?
- What is “AAC”? What about speech?
- Overview of our Students Learning and the Educational Environment
- Introduction to The Pyramid Approach to Education
- PECS and the Pyramid
- Functional Activities
- Powerful Reinforcers
- Functional Communication
- Inappropriate Behaviorsc
- Generalization
- Effective Lessons
- Teaching Strategies
- Error Correction
- Data
Getting Ready for PECS
- The Structured Training Environment
- Practice of implementing the phase
- The Relaxed Training Environment
- Videos of Phase I implementation
- PECS Phase II
- The Structured Training Environment
- The Relaxed Training Environment
- Videos of Phase II implementation
- The Structured Training Environment
- The Relaxed Training Environment
- Videos of Phase IIIa
- Practice the Error Correction Procedure
- Discuss Alternative
- Discrimination Strategies
- The Structured Training Environment
- The Relaxed Training Environment
- Videos of Phase IIIb
- Practice the Error Correction Procedure
- The Structured Training Environment
- The Relaxed Training Environment
- Videos of Phase IV
- Practice the Error Correction Procedure
- The Structured Training Environment
- The Relaxed Training Environment
- Videos of Attributes
- Bright Ideas
- The Structured Training Environment
- The Relaxed Training Environment
- Videos of Attributes
- Peer PECS
- Practice phase V
- The Structured Training Environment
- The Relaxed Training Environment
- Bright Ideas
- Videos of Phase V
- Brief review of Additional Critical Communication Skills
- Saying ‘No’
- Transitioning from PECS to Speech Generating Devices
Instructor.
BSc, PGCE QTS
Andy Yates
Since completing an undergraduate degree in psychology at Plymouth University, Andy initially spent three years working as a Residential Social Worker. During this time he worked in a variety of settings working with adults with mental health issues and severe learning difficulties to teenagers with Autism. He supported a wide range of individual needs across a 24 hour curriculum, focusing largely on developing and implementing independence skills programmes.
In 2001 Andy graduated from Bath Spa University with a PGCE and spent four years teaching in mainstream primary schools. As a KS1 teacher Andy gained valuable experience of implementing, assessing and reviewing the national curriculum strategies and targets, alongside developing classroom management skills.
From 2005 Andy specialised in working in Special Educational Needs schools. Since then has worked with children across all key stages with a wide array of complex needs, including PMLD, MLD, Emotional Behavioural Difficulties, and Autism. During his time working at a setting for pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties Andy became very experienced with managing challenging behaviours and has a particular interest in developing individual and classroom management techniques. Andy has undertaken further training in the implementation of Team Teach, SCIPP, and TCI crisis management techniques.
Whilst working within Autism specific schools, Andy has used PECS as an integral part of teaching functional communication skills. Andy joined Pyramid in 2013 and is especially interested in promoting effective teaching practises whilst working with challenging behaviour, employing PECS as a means of developing communication skills.
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