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Choosing AAC Devices Based on Research: What the Evidence Says About Effectiveness
...high-tech devices (speech-generating devices, tablets with AAC apps, eye-gaze systems) produce better results than low-tech options (picture boards, PECS books, communication charts) when the goal is social communication. Children using high-tech AAC initiate more conversations, respond more often to...
Therapies > Speech
How AAC Devices Help Nonverbal Children Communicate
...counts as AAC? AAC covers a wide range of tools, and the variety can feel overwhelming at first. On the simpler end, a laminated picture board or a PECS binder, short for Picture Exchange Communication System, counts as AAC. On the more sophisticated end, dedicated speech-generating devices (SGDs) produce...
Assistive Tech > Apps
Special Needs App of the Day: i See-quence ... My Schedules at School
...geared towards younger children, and there were not many with real photos. I knew my son learned best from real photos instead of cartoon images and PECS [Picture Exchange Communication System]," she explains. In February of 2011, Criscuolo teamed with speech therapist Sharon Walters to create apps appropriate...
Assistive Tech > Hardware
Communication Aides & Devices: Therapy Tool or Communication Substitute?
...understand and use language. For these children, schools often use programs like PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) to help grow language and comprehension,...problems maintaining attention when they have to manipulate the pictures in PECS or motor plan for signing, so other supports are brought in. Many devices...