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Acronym	Definition
PECS	Picture Exchange Communication System
PECS	Plan for European Cooperating States (European Space Agency)
PECS	Performance Event Collection Services
PECS	Public Emergency Call Service
PECS	Portable Environmental Control System
PECS	Pharmacy Electronic Communications Standard
PECS	Precision Encapsulation and Cure System
PECS	Perfect Electric Conducting Structure
PECS	Princeton Energy and Climate Scholars
PECS	Packaged Equipment Control System
PECS	Poultry Environmental Control System

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Investigating the acquisition, generalization, and emergence of untrained verbal operants for mands acquired using the Picture Exchange Communication System in adults with severe developmental disabilities.

Speech therapy intervention in a teenager with autism spectrum disorder: a case report

Teaching young people who are blind and have autism to make requests using a variation on the picture exchange communication system with tactile symbols: A preliminary investigation.

A review of intervention studies conducted with individuals with autism and sensory impairments

A review of the efficacy of the Picture Exchange Communication System intervention.

Using the picture exchange communication system with students with visual impairment

They work with kids with all sorts of delays, including speech, and introduced Jack to PECS - the Picture Exchange Communication System.

The joys of raising Jack: doctors, doctors and more doctors

The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) was developed over a number of years beginning in the late 1980s.

The unusual suspects: myths and misconceptions associated with PECS

Among the aided communication modalities, exchange-based systems such as the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS; Bondy & Frost, 1994), have gained increasing popularity (Sulzer-Azaroff, Hoffman, Horton, Bondy, & Frost, 2009).

Modified stimulus presentation to teach simple discrimination within picture exchange communication system training

Andy Bondy and Lori Frost explain the Picture Exchange Communication System, which assists children with autism in sharing their thoughts and needs.

A Picture's Worth

LAHORE, June 3 -- The Alumni Society of the Government College University Clinical Psychology Department on Wednesday organised a training workshop on the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS), a highly effective method of non-verbal communication with autistic children who have delays in speech development.

Workshop for autistic children at GCU

Its ethos will be to have individualized education programmes for each child using ABA and Picture Exchange Communication System as done by London's Treehouse Trust.

Health Midlands: Unique education programmes

Though Barbera recognizes other general approaches to autism treatment, such as Discrete Trial Training, and other communication training approaches, such as the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) (Frost & Bondy, 2002), her own endorsements are consistent with the preferences of the AVB community.

The Verbal Behavior Approach: How to Teach Children with Autism and Related Disorders by Mary Barbera and Tracy Rasmussen

The couple were told how they could improve their son's ability to communicate by using a Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) but would have to wait nine months to go on a course.

HEALTH MATTERS : Diet regime gave our boy new lease of life; When doctors told a Solihull couple their son would "always be different" they refused to give up hope. Health Reporter Emma Brady hears how the Sherlock family helped their son combat autism