The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS): What Do the Data Say?
Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
Sulzer-Azaroff, B., Hoffman, A. O., et al. (2009).
Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 24(2), 89-103.
This review investigates the effect of the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) on communication skills in individuals with communication impairments. While age and diagnosis of participants was not limited, the review primarily includes children on the autism spectrum.
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Published, peer-reviewed studies (not further specified)
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"Several investigators provided evidence that learning to use [the Picture Exchange Communication System] PECS was associated with some of their participants increasing their speaking and social approaching" (p. 98).
"The growing body of research ... supports the conclusion that [the Picture Exchange Communication System] PECS is an especially promising system for enabling nonspeaking individuals to communicate functionally across a wide audience of 'listeners' (including those who speak a language other than English)" (p. 101).
