A Picture's Worth: PECS and Other Visual Communication Strategies in Autism explains the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) - a communication system that helps non-verbal individuals express needs and desires using a picture (or series of pictures).

A great foundation for communication, The PECS helps your students with Autism establish and build more meaningful, effective communication skills.

At the same time, it helps you understand the connection between communication and behavior and learn to prevent communication frustrations that cause undesirable behaviors.

Suggests parents teach PECS in a succession of six phases, each phase building on the previous one, until an individual is capable of constructing sentences with pictures to make requests and comment on surroundings.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 What Is Communication?
Chapter 2 The Other Side of the Communication Coin: Understanding
Chapter 3 Can't Talk? Can't Communicate?
Chapter 4 Why Is She Doing That? The Relationship between Behavior and Communication
Chapter 5 Alternative and Alternative Communication Systems By Pat Mirenda, Ph.D.
Chapter 6 The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) Initial Training
Chapter 7 Advanced Lessons within PECS
Chapter 8 Using Visual Strategies to Enhance Understanding

Includes 160 pages, real-life case studies and a series of lessons, from beginning to more advanced PECS techniques. Works for any age or cognitive level.