An important task of modern correctional pedagogy is the formation of communication skills in persons who are unable to master verbal communication. In this regard, correctional teachers faced the problem of forming communication in persons with severe speech disorders, as well as with autism, using alternative means to verbal communication. For this purpose, scientists have developed systems of auxiliary communication strategies, common to which is the use of auxiliary means in the process of communication, which "simplifies" the process of perception, understanding and production of informational messages.
PESC - Picture (image) Excange (change) Communication (communication) System (system) is a communication system for exchanging images. Developed in the USA as a variant technique for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), both for children and adults. Autism spectrum disorder is a disorder of the nervous system that impairs people's behavior and communication. The mental.ua website presents a large selection of equipment for working with children with ASD. However, for a good result, it is necessary to study the peculiarities of the education of children with ASD. PESC cards are effective in working with children of different age groups who have difficulties in communicative, cognitive and motor areas. As a result of the involvement of the PESC system, the child may improve communication skills or be able to move on to verbal reproduction of images.
The PECS system methodology is used when working with children with mental retardation (mental retardation). With ZPR, a delay in fine motor skills, speech, and social activity develops, such children have impaired communication skills, including the system of gestures. As a rule, children who are not yet 5 years old are introduced to this system. Extensive experience in its use has been accumulated in working with individuals with autism spectrum disorders. They practically do not speak or have speech limitations accompanied by echolalia. PECS takes place in the form of training. It can be held both at school and at home.
Such children need a visual example. It can be represented by photographs, series of thematic cards with pictures, schematic images or words. It is better to purchase appropriate educational equipment on the Mental.ua website
The PECS teaching method involves systematic tasks with pictures, thanks to which the child can develop his own "language". The child can take a card and make a sentence, for example: "I want to go for a walk" or "I don't want to go for a walk."
PECS training consists of six stages, in the format of discrete trials with the use of powerful reinforcers (an individualized training approach that is used to teach skills in an organized, controlled and systematic way). As a rule, PECS runs parallel to normal language development, this communication system is two-way.
The application of PECS begins with learning how to communicate (Stage I) and continues through the other five stages, which include increasing the distance between communication partners (Stage II), distinguishing between pictures (Stage III), sentence construction (Stage IV), the answer to the question: "What do you want?" (Stage V) and commenting (Stage VI). The system allows you to make communication visual.
To achieve significant results, it is necessary to work for a very long time. The work must be carried out for years, specialists must work in a complex, coordinating all their actions with each other. The use of PEKS cards accelerates the development of speech, thanks to the symbiosis of verbal and visual images. On the Mental.ua website, you can purchase cards for working with the PECS method.
The advantages of using PEX include:
development of basic functional communication skills;
helps to quickly teach the child to take the initiative in pronouncing words;
the child's communication with others becomes more accessible.
Work on children's speech disorders must be started as early as possible for the best result. In the conditions of complex, purposeful work, it is very difficult to form developed communicative speech in a speechless child. Mental.ua will help provide Ukrainian schools with modern educational equipment.
Therefore, in order to stimulate communicative competences in children with autism, in addition to the methods and techniques usual in speech therapy work, which often do not give results in working with this category of children, non-traditional forms and methods at the non-verbal level should be used, in particular, communication using an alternative RES communications. The use of this technique makes it possible to facilitate mutual understanding with the child, to make him believe in his own strength, to teach him to communicate with others non-verbally, and to help children with existing verbal communication skills in mastering grammatical categories, to promote the development of oral speech to its fullest extent.
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