The Effectiveness of Combining Tangible Symbols with the Picture Exchange Communication System to Teach Requesting Skills to Children with Multiple Disabilities including Visual Impairment

The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is an augmentative and alternative communication program (Frost & Bondy, 2002). Although PECS has been effectively used to teach functional requesting skills for children with autism, mental retardation, visual impairment, and physical disabilitie...

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Main Author: Ali, Emad Mohammed
Other Authors: Umbreit, John
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195459