That is awesome! It's great that we live in an age that not only understands but actively researches differentiated learning approaches. PECS is a great system for the highly visual; your therapist is right about taking the symbols-mean-things approach slowly.
We were ever so grateful to have a PECS food binder when Gwen was in preschool. Not all of the little velcro-attached icons in it were PECS; some of them were photographs or other pictures of the foods she was used to getting, so that she could tell us what she wanted; it saved us a lot of horror and tears, especially when we had to change up her diet and take her gluten-free for a little while while her stomach was recovering from 2+ years of antibiotics.
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Date: 2010-09-24 02:39 am (UTC)We were ever so grateful to have a PECS food binder when Gwen was in preschool. Not all of the little velcro-attached icons in it were PECS; some of them were photographs or other pictures of the foods she was used to getting, so that she could tell us what she wanted; it saved us a lot of horror and tears, especially when we had to change up her diet and take her gluten-free for a little while while her stomach was recovering from 2+ years of antibiotics.