She can't talk, nod, point and wave etc. So when she's ill she can't tell us where the pain is coming from. She can't look in the direction of the pain. I'm hoping that if we keep using the PECS with her one day she will be able to give us a card to tell us where the pain is coming from.
She is at a very basic stage of PECS. She is at the stage where food and drink are important to her and she will sometimes pass a card which has a picture of a person drinking on it and also a cheese card. I then get the item she wanted. She also enjoys standing on a stool at the kitchen sink and playing with the water, so I made her a 'stool' card. She passed me the card twice today.
I've made some pictures of her favorite TV program Peppa Pig and new interest the Teletubbies so that she can pass me the TV control and take the card off the back and pass it to me.
I have also put a 'bedroom' card on a door frame of the exit kitchen door so she can ask to go to her room. She has passed me this card a couple of times too.
Below is a Schedule board. Normally there would be only 2 or 3 cards on the board to let L know what happening. Hopefully the more she understands the cards mean something is coming up the more it will help with her fear of transitions. In the pic below I have put lots of cards on there to give you an example of the cards used. Hopefully we will be able to put that many on there one day when she's older and able to cope with more cards. The schedule cards are bigger than the PECS to avoid confusion.
She can't talk, nod, point and wave etc. So when she's ill she can't tell us where the pain is coming from. She can't look in the direction of the pain. I'm hoping that if we keep using the PECS with her one day she will be able to give us a card to tell us where the pain is coming from.
She is at a very basic stage of PECS. She is at the stage where food and drink are important to her and she will sometimes pass a card which has a picture of a person drinking on it and also a cheese card. I then get the item she wanted. She also enjoys standing on a stool at the kitchen sink and playing with the water, so I made her a 'stool' card. She passed me the card twice today.
I've made some pictures of her favorite TV program Peppa Pig and new interest the Teletubbies so that she can pass me the TV control and take the card off the back and pass it to me.