Meet PECS

Meet PECS.
PECS is a communication system that uses pictures to communicate. This is a page from the inside of a binder. The goal is that Micah could use this to tell others what he wants. At first they start small, but many pages can be added, arranged by topic. This is how our first day of speech went w/ the new therapist.
(she has a toy he wants)
1) Open the binder
2) Find the picture of the toy he wants
3) Pull the pic off the vertical velcro strips.
4) Close binder
5) Put pic on sentence strip (the blue thing at the bottom, but ours is not on the same page as the pics.)
6) Pull the sentence strip off the velcro it's attached to.
7) Give to therapist
8) Point to pics "i want" "fire truck"
9) Get toy.

Do i even NEED to explain why this had me in near tears after 45 minutes? i did remind her he is in fact, 2 1/2 years old. Not to mention the challenges from a occupational therapy perspective (fine motor)... MAN.

At least it's sunny, amen? We had a great play date today w/ Micah's "cousins" :)