so proud

[bubble78]

just started to teach my ds age 4 with asd and no speech, picture exchange yesterday and within a few times showing him what to do he now picks up the card and give it to me every time ...
its only the beginning.. picture doesnt match what he wants but its a start

clever little man

Oh brilliant that's amazing he has grasped it so quickly.

clever bubblesboy

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What a great start

yes his speech therapist was amazed at how quickly he picked it up.....

just need to start the next stage now hopefully it will help his speech come but im not sure thats how it works
has it happened that way for anyone else that they get the picture exchange sorted then they atart with speech?????

Yes - PECS definitely kick-started speech with DS2 (he's 4.5 and we started 9 months ago). He had a few words before but didn't really use them functionally. He started just exchanging, and we would always say 'Oh, DS2 wants x' very enthusiastically. Then he moved onto sometimes saying the word spontaneously. Now he uses the sentence strip with 'I want x', we get him to point to x and say the word. More often than not nowadays he just shoves the strip at us and says 'crisp!' or ''drink!'. Not polite but effective! Or sometimes he just asks for what he wants without the PECS (though I know the PECS people would say we should always make him exchange).

When we did the PECS training they quoted a statistic which said (I think) that 75% of pre-schoolers who used PECS eventually went on to develop speech. So prognosis is good!

Oh well done - great news! My DD3 uses PECS, she isn't speaking yet, but you never know.....

Well done little bubbleboy![sile]

even!

Well done to mini-bubble.