"Brief report: increase in production of spoken words in some children with autism after PECS teaching to phase III"

Carr, Deborah and Felce, Janet 2007. "Brief report: increase in production of spoken words in some children with autism after PECS teaching to phase III". Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 37 (4) , pp. 780-787. 10.1007/s10803-006-0204-0

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	PECS; speech; autism; children.
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
ISSN:	0162-3257
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2017 15:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/59881

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