can you show mw your pecs.....

[ryansmom02]

I would like to see how others set up there pec system... can you post a picc so I can see it in action.... thanks

[peekyboo]

Okay, I had to laugh at the title of this - who knew this could have a double meaning?

[fullofgrace]

We have two different PECS systems.

My oldest no longer uses PECS, but she does use checklists for various activities. She also has fallen in love with the idea of having her very own calendar. (I can already see her as a PDA and dayplanner toting adult! )

My middle DD uses PECS for a schedule only.

My youngest, DS, uses PECS for both his daily schedule and for communication (he has good receptive language, but a severe articulation delay). He has a communication binder (the kind that zips closed). All of his PECS are in there and organized by activity (like breakfast, school, playtime, etc) with an "I want" strip at the top of each page. His schedule page is the first page. All of his PECS follow that, and then the last page is a calendar with weather.

I'll try and take pictures of them later for you.

[AuntLavender]

How do attach photos? I have a digital camera I know how to use but I don't see how to add them here? (Hey I've never sent a text message either...)

Please have mercy! LOL!

[fullofgrace]

Bumping ~ I haven't forgotten. I have to go get batteries for the camera!

AuntLavender -- We can't attach pictures to our posts here, but we can upload them to an online album like photobucket or flickr, and then put the link in our post.

[1Baby5Pups]

I'm not a mom of a special needs child, so I hope I can still post here.

My husband and I care for a 23-year-old autistic man. He carries around a card, about 3x6, with the pictures of who he is with and what he is doing that day. There are 8 velcro spots. He also has a big weekly board at his home, which I think is meant to be set up with a daily line of what he will do (ie. Monday - Allan, restaurant, Wal-Mart, nap; Lisa, bedtime)... but I don't think he recognizes that it's his week in advance. Instead, he just searches the board for the car he wants. Lately, for us anyway (he's got several workers in addition to his parents) he likes to completely fill up his card. For his favorite activities (car and McDonalds), he likes to put multiple pics on his card. Today, we've got Scott (my husband), me/baby (on the same card, and he calls us both Mary as a result), car, car, McDonalds, dog, grocery store, and I think another McDonalds. Unfortunately, his routine got switched up at some point and the useful grocery store pic doesn't mean the grocery store anymore. He now associates it with Home Depot. He loves Home Depot, but you can't get groceries there anymore.

Staff hide some pictures. There is one full card with 8 pictures of his mom on it. He loves his mom, but when he goes for this card it means he's expecting his mom, and he gets increasingly anxious when she doesn't arrive and he thinks she is (and she must be, right, here is her picture!). We also hide his wheelchair pictures on days when it is two hot to go for a walk (he can walk independently, but "walks" are in his chair).

In his bathroom there is a separate, smaller card with 5 or 6 pic spots on it with all the bathroom activities (toilet, tooth brush, shave, etc.). I'm not sure if anyone uses this one.

I've been wanting to try to implement a grocery list type card, but he's gotten off his grocery store routine. I was hoping it would help prevent the times when he fixates on great big jugs of chocolate milk and refuses to leave the store without buying it (I tried to sneak it out of the cart, but he notices and went back for it ... he doesn't drink chocolate milk at all, but he knows I do). The card would show the need to buy cheese, eggs, etc. No chocolate milk picture? I guess that means we don't buy chocolate milk that day.

PS. I must admit I *did* wonder for a second why you were posting about showing your midwife your pectoral muscles in the special needs forum!

[mamaverdi]

Originally Posted by peekyboo

Okay, I had to laugh at the title of this - who knew this could have a double meaning?

And I saw post picc...and thought peripherally inserted central catheter.

[AuntLavender]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10786854@N08/?saved=1

I hope you can see them!

[dianamerrell]

Originally Posted by AuntLavender

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10786854@N08/?saved=1

I hope you can see them!

WOW! What a great system.

My son is almost three, and we have a communication binder. He really only asks for food items now, but we are working on it. You have given me some great ideas.

Great thread, sorry for the highjack