Penny - 2.5 year old girl with autism uses assistive technology

There is lots of confusion over certain compliance based systems, such an PECs, nothing I have shown in this video is necessarily PECs, but all of them can be control and compliance driven and harmful if put forward in the wrong way. The harm from PECs does not come from the book or little symbols, it is the system used that is the issue… and that system can be put onto any AAC tool. I’ve seen so many videos of parents using high tech AAC in this way and it has to stop. So when using these tools

Keira’s new PODD book with her PECS. Thought I’d do a little video showing you what we use while out and about and even when we are at home for Keira’s communication. This book has all of Keira’s words she can communicate with. Keira can’t point to pictures at the moment, so she grabs the picture she wants and hands it to me. That’s her way of saying “I want milk” or “I want dad”. We are only using single words at the moment. Hopefully she will grasp the concept of using two PECS for example “Da