Looking for an alternative to the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECs) for non-verbal autistic child?

Question

My 6 year old autistic nephew is non-verbal and I found a picture communication system that really interested me on the internet, but then I lost the link, and now I cannot locate it. It is different from the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS). It is a lesser known system and looked to be by a small company, where the picture system they produce is their only product. I would really like to purchase the system and appreciate any help in locating it. Or even help in finding a site that lists different kinds of picture communication systems out there. (All my searches keep turning up PECS, which is not what I am looking for). Thanks so much for any help!

Answer 1

I use pictures symbols all the time in my music therapy sessions, but they aren't part of a formal PECS system.  The general idea that you are using visual, rather than verbal representations for items is really the important part.  You don't need a formal system for that.  I generally use board maker as much as I can, but sometimes I just have to hunt clip art sites online to find an image that I need.

Honestly, I find that tailoring the "system" to be what your child best responds to, is more important than it having a brand name attached to it.

Answer 2

Hello, not sure if this is what your looking for, but I thought I'd offer my input.  I work as a one-on-one for a severely autistic student, 8 years old.  He didn't care for PECS, didn't like carrying at around.  So we use icons that are a bit different which we make ourselves with a program called Board Maker with Mac.  This is the link for that:

http://www.mayer-johnson.com/ProdDesc.as...

There is also a program called TEACCH that I took a short training on it.  It was interesting, just haven't had the oppurtunity to learn more about it.  

http://www.teacch.com/welcome.html

Hope that helps and good luck! :)

Answer 3

I have included quite a few links that i found by searching for Augmentative Picture Communication.  I hope you are able to find what you are looking for.  

http://www.elliecards.com/index.html

http://www.dotolearn.com/picturecards/pr...

http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/tour/r-tol-comm...

http://www.augcominc.com/links.html#dv

http://www.lburkhart.com/links.htm

http://www.dynavoxtech.com/

http://www.words-plus.com/

http://www.1-2-3speak.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmentativ...

http://www.designtolearn.com/pages/commo...

Answer 4

What about this?

http://www.mayer-johnson.com/ProductsLis...

We used both this and PECS on the road to getting my nonverbal daughter to speak, both are awesome.

Good luck

Answer 5

My son, who is 14, is non-verbal. He does know some sign language, and is able to utter a few 1 or 2 syllable sounds consistently enough to use them as words,

I have played around with the idea of building some small webpages with picture links to recorded phrases, so the pages can be loaded to a pocket pc and used ike a poor mans ACD. I haven gotten the bugs worked out of it, but is seemes to be workable.