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Adapting the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) for a Student with Visual Impairment and Autism: A Case Study
AER Journal: Research and Practice in Visual Impairment and Blindness (2009)
  • Amy T. Parker, Texas Tech University
  • Devender R. Banda, Texas Tech University
  • Roseanna Davidson, Texas Tech University
  • Lan Liu-Gitz, Texas Tech University
Abstract
For special educators and speech-language pathologists who work among adults with multiple disabilities, tangible object symbols may be an appropriate avenue for communication enhancement. Many of these adults use presymbolic communicative actions (Cascella, 2005), and these symbols may enable them to transition from presymbolic into symbolic communication. Collateral evidence for this transition comes from promising results of tangible symbol applications among children who also have presymbolic communication actions (Parker, Banda, Davidson, & Liu-Gitz, 2010; Rowland & Schweigert, 2000; Sigafoos et al., 2008; Trief, Cascella, & Bruce, 2013). Yet, there is a paucity of research on tangible symbol treatments among adults.
Publication Date
April, 2009
Citation Information
Parker, A.T., Banda, D.R., Davidson, R. & Liu-Gitz, L. (2010). Adapting the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) for a student with visual impairment and autism: A case study. AER Journal: Research and Practice in Visual Impairment and Blindness.