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BFOCASD Brevard Families of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (or Similar Disabilities).
BFOCASD meetings are the first Wednesday of every month from 7-9 p.m.
Brevard County, Florida

Our software is often used to create personalized PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) PECS begins with  teaching a student to exchange a picture of a desired item with a teacher, who immediately honors the request. The system goes on to teach discrimination of symbols and then puts them all together in simple "sentences."  Children are also taught to comment and answer direct questions.  Many  preschoolers using PECS also begin developing speech.  The system has been successful with adolescents and adults who have a wide array of communicative, cognitive and physical difficulties.

Using pictures is an excellent way to teach speech, language and communication. Children with Autism are highly visual and can be taught almost anything using images. You need thousands of good photographic pictures to help with 'generalization' i.e. if a child with Autism has just one picture of a white dog and is taught this is a dog, he may not easily recognize a German Shepherd when he sees it. Using new and varied material also keeps a child from getting bored and frustrated.

The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) was developed 12 years ago as a unique augmentative/ alternative training package that allows children and adults with autism and other communication deficits to initiate communication.   PECS does not require complex or expensive materials.  It was created with educators, residential care providers and families in mind, and so it is readily used in a variety of settings.

It is thought that we should minimize the number of stick images or drawings used. Actual color photographic material is the best as the images are more life-like and much easier for the child to relate to. Our software contains the photographic images for your PEC's style communication needs. The following info provides links to pages on purchasing or creating your own products.

This is better than teaching sign language because not everyone understands sign language. PECS allow your child to communicate with anyone.

	Pocket Book, Appointment Book - Communication Books The handsome Pocket Book (32 cards) and Appointment Book (64 cards) hold Picture Prompt Cards or any business sized card. Use to communicate or to create illustrated lists. Quantity : Pocket Book $9.00 Quantity : Appointment Book  $14.00
	Durable Personal Communication Book is ideal for manual communication systems. The easy-to-open book stays open until you turn the page. Tabs on every page. Use one symbol per each of the 13 pages or use up to nine 1” symbols per page! Personalize with any type of photos, symbols, or remnants familiar to you. Holds cards up to 3” x 31/2”   Quantity :  Personal Comm Book $12.00
	Picture Prompt Stickers Use these stickers to create illustrated communication booklets. The 12 sheets of shopping, restaurant and daily activity stickers have 576 detailed, colorful illustrations that match the Picture Prompt Cards. Includes two laminated sticker booklets I thought this was an awesome way to try picture. Try making a customized card (for only $19) before investing in software. Quantity : Picture Prompt Stickers $19.00
Choice boards	Need more products like these? CLICK HERE Soft portable books, schedules, chore charts, reward charts, sequence charts for cleaning and self care and more

The Picture This... Series

There are two different versions of Picture This...   Picture This... Standard Edition is our original version which contains a basic program to help you format photos and 2700 photos from 30 different categories.  This is a good CD to purchase if you have a tight budget but would like a wide variety of photos. 

Picture This... Pro , with over 5,000 photos, is the most popular version. The professional version contains a powerful formatting program which allows you to print any size card, a phonetic and word search engine, plus many other features which are described below.  Any of add-on photo collection CDs can be used alone or combined with Picture This... Pro. List of Pictures 

What can I do with the cards?

The flash cards are great for picture schedules,  chore charts, communication boards, and for teaching matching skills, reading skills and receptive or expressive vocabulary. With the new Professional Edition, you can easily create your own articulation cards. You can also customize pictorial communication books for different situation.

Here are some examples of what you can do.

• Picture This... Standard Edition contains over 2700 high-resolution photos shot against a plain background. The photos are sorted into the following categories: actions, animals, bathroom, bedroom, body, buildings, clothing, colors, electronics, emotions, food, furniture, holidays, household, kitchen, lineart, music, nature, opposites, people, places, prepositions, rooms, sequences, shapes, sports, tools, toys, travel and vehicles.

  Picture This... Pro contains an additional 2300 photos plus 8 new categories - chores, health, math, money, school, time, "what's different?" and "what's wrong?".

Here are just a few of the many things you can do using Picture This...
It is very easy to create flash cards that are great for picture schedules,  chore charts, communication boards, and for teaching matching skills, reading skills, facial cues and receptive or expressive vocabulary. With the new Professional Edition, you can easily create your own articulation cards.

You can create a wide variety of visuals using Picture This.  The following list of examples should help get you started.  Click on one of the items below for more information and samples.

• Cards for Improving Academic Skills
• Token Boards for positive reinforcements
• Visual Schedules
• Picture Strips for Improving Self-help Skills
• Behavior Management

Visuals of examples of these uses and directions on making them

If you are running an ABA program, you know that you constantly need quality, distraction-free flash cards. Our Picture This... software was originally designed in 1998 for creating ABA materials. Our photos can be used to teach all of the following skills and more:

For more on what is contained on the CD's and how to choose between the two Click Here

How much does it cost?

Functional Living Skills and Behavioral Rules

Functional Living Skills and Behavioral Rules contains over 1000 full-color photographs of children, adolescents, and adults doing a variety of functional activities. Activity areas include daily schedules and routines, personal hygiene/grooming, toileting, homework, leisure, simple meal prep, community, and behavioral rules.

The photos on this CD were created by Robin D. Allen, PhD from Behavioral Services & Products, Inc. and are based on the photo boards which she has successfully used with many special-needs children and adults. The formatting software which comes with this CD is similar to the Picture This... Standard Edition and is compatible with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP or Mac OS 7.5 or higher.

Using Functional Living Skills with Picture This... Pro

This CD may be used with Picture This Pro... for more advanced formatting and search capability.

How much does it cost?

Interactive Software

Many children, particularly those with autism, are fascinated by the computer. Often, however, off-the-shelf educational programs that may work well for the typical child are too distracting or overwhelming for a special needs student. Our Great Action Adventure program is designed to be distraction-free and fully customizable. You can control which photos and videos appear, which sounds and videos play, and how quickly the program advances. Each word is systematically introduced and tested using a discrete trial method of teaching (often called ABA or DTT).

The Great Action Adventure teaches the following skills:

• Receptive Verbs and Nouns
• Early Reading
• Sign Language
• Verb Tenses

Visual learners will  have fun learning  about verbs and   related nouns with  The Great Action Adventure

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Who Uses this type Software?

Special Needs Market

Join the thousands of speech therapists, teachers and parents who have discovered that our distraction-free software is a great tool for helping people with the following disorders to communicate:

Early Education

Although our software was originally designed to help autistic individuals, Montessori teachers and early educators have discovered that they can easily create photo flash cards, bingo games, and early reading games with our Picture This... software. The Great Action Adventure software is also a hit with young children. Older children enjoy learning sign language with The Great Action program.

The sample animated gif files shown below are rough approximations of the videos that come with the Great Action Adventure. The videos on the CD are much larger .mov files with sound effects and spoken words.

ESL and Foreign Languages

Because our Picture This... Pro software comes in 5 languages, you can create your own custom cards with a picture and English word on one side and a foreign language on the back. You can add your own language or search the huge database of photos in the foreign language. Picture This... also works great for practicing a foreign language before traveling overseas.

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