Picture exchange communication system approach and self-confidence development in children with autism

Abstract

“Picture exchange communication system approach and self-confidence development in children with autism” is in the field of special education and more especially in mental abilities and counselling, and brings out the efficacy of the PECS approach and how it can be used to develop self-confidence in children with autism. The general objective of our work is to bring out the contribution of the implementation of the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) approach and to understand how it develop self-confidence of children with autism. In the theoretical framework we had to show what has been done so far. With these we brought our research question which was to guide our work which took the following format: has the implementation of the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) contributed the development self-confidence in children with autism? This observation took place in Institut Psychopedagogique Einstein. The subjects were put to do an observation in a period of over two months in their inclusive environment which we had to put them in condition and so also the strategies which the teachers used on the kids to boost and build self-confidence in the autistic children. During this research we discovered the self-esteem and confidence of the child changed positively depending on the relation between the autistic child and the educator who has to use the strategies on the autistic children. This is so because these autistic children being different from other children need to be treated as such by the educators.