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PECS® Support
This service provides PECS support for your setting based on your learners’ and team’s specific needs. A minimum of at least one staff member, who will be present for the consultation, must have previously attended the PECS Level 1 workshop in order to book this service, as there is no training element. Within a school setting we can observe up to a maximum of four classrooms in one day. A written report with advice and next steps follows within two weeks.
This onsite visit includes:
- recap of workshop information
- 1:1 discussion
- general Q&A
- specific advice
- 1:1 work with learners
- demonstrations
Onsite PECS Support Pricing
1 Day
£600*
*plus VAT
1-day onsite visit from a Pyramid Consultant with follow up report
2 Days
£1150*
*plus VAT
2-days onsite visit from a Pyramid Consultant with follow up report, can be spread over 2 visits
3 Days
£1700*
*plus VAT
3-days onsite visit from a Pyramid Consultant with follow up report, can be spread over 3 visits
*Plus consultants travel and accommodation expenses where required.
Thank you on behalf of everyone at St Ann’s for all the help, advice and useful tips you gave on your recent visit.
There has been a real buzz around the school to really get spontaneous communication happening, one learner made well over 100 requests today, with at least 30-40 being spontaneous!
– Carol Botterill, Teacher & Certified PECS Implementer, St Ann’s School
Additional PECS Support
PECS Start-up™
The PECS Start-Up is appropriate where there is only one PECS user within a setting. No previous training or experience with PECS is required. It is a six hour onsite visit with team training and working 1:1 with a learner.
- Day begins with a brief overview of the PECS protocol
- Discuss how to establish effective communicative environments
- Practice and role-play reinforcer assessment and the beginning PECS phases with the team
- Observe the learner to determine favorite items/activities
- Begin Phase I with the learner
- Progress to Phase II and additional phases as appropriate
- Discuss and assess the Nine Critical Communication Skills
- Discuss detailed recommendations
- Comprehensive report sent within two weeks
- Receive two 30-minute online follow-up sessions within six weeks
- Includes the following products:
- PECS Communication Book (standard size), PECS 151 and PICS for PECS download
- Help, Wait, Break, and I am Working For cards
£775
(plus VAT and consultant’s travel/accommodation expenses)
PECS Check-up™
The PECS Check-Up is suitable for a learner having difficulty progressing through the phases of PECS. Those working with the learner need to have previously attended the PECS L1 workshop or taken part in a PECS Start-Up. This is 3 hour onsite visit is tailored to the learner’s particular needs and consists of observation, feedback, practice and could include lecture and video examples.
- Begins with observation of staff implementing PECS with the learner
- Problem solve difficulties
- Practice and role-play PECS phases, including error correction strategies
- Discuss and assess the Nine Critical Communication Skills
- Implement the next phases and or the identified critical communication skill(s) with the learner
- Discuss detailed recommendations
- Comprehensive report sent within two weeks
- Receive a 30-minute online follow-up session within six weeks
- Includes the following products:
£450
(plus VAT and consultant’s travel/accommodation expenses)
Online PECS Support
This service is suitable for anyone who has previously attended the PECS Level 1 workshop. A great follow up to the L1 workshop, it will help with any issues you have encountered when implementing the protocol. This can be booked as a one time service or as on going support.
- recap of workshop information
- 1:1 discussion
- general Q&A
- demonstrations
- prior video submission & advice about specific learners
£100
1 hour
£200
2 hours
£375
3 hours
(plus VAT)
Online PECS Check-in
This service is suitable for anyone who has previously attended the PECS Level 1 workshop. Perfect follow up to either onsite or online PECS Support. A check-in for further questions, advice and help.
- recap of workshop information
- general Q&A
- demonstrations
- suitable for 1:1 or groups of staff who can attend the whole session or just drop in
£75
1 hour
£100
90 minutes
£125
2 hours
(plus VAT)
Behaviour Support
One of the biggest challenges we face when working with learners with special educational needs is not understanding the reason for certain behaviours. Our first instinct often is to ask, “How do I get this to stop?” This question may lead to implementing short term fixes rather than developing long term solutions. This service compliments our Challenging Behaviours: Prevent, Reduce & Replace workshop; however, attendance at this workshop is not a pre-requisite.
- onsite visit of six hours
- guidance on teaching your learner crucial skills needed to replace unwanted behaviours
- learn about systematic reinforcement, functional activities and communication skills to help decrease targeted behaviours
- identify ways to prevent contextually inappropriate behaviours in the first place and to react systematically to reduce them when they occur
- learn how to collect & use data
- maximum of four learners seen per visit
- written report with advice and next steps
£600
(plus VAT and consultant’s travel/accommodation expenses)
Functional Skills Support
Most professionals agree that the long term goals of education for their students include being employable and living as independently as possible. Life skills are all necessary for increased independence as well as overall improved quality of life. Students with developmental delays take longer to learn skills, so where do we want to spend valuable time? Those of us in charge of providing instruction need to be vigilant about choosing and systematically addressing the most important lessons.
- onsite visit of six hours
- focused support in-class to help you specifically improve this vital area of instruction
- help you to identify missing skills
- support you in designing activities to teach functional skills
- identify ways to increase your learners’ independence
- maximum of 4 learners seen per full day visit
- written report with advice and next steps
£600
(plus VAT and consultant’s travel/accommodation expenses)
SoSAFE! Support
Social safety is a broad and complex theme to teach, however SoSAFE! provides a supportive and accessible environment to cover the topic. It can take up to two years to put the SoSAFE! framework in place and we can help throughout all implementation stages. Whether you are trying to figure out how to start SoSAFE!; or finding it hard to differentiate topics across ages and abilities; or after two years of implementation you want help to measure progress and outcomes, our experienced team can help. This service is an optional follow up to SoSAFE! training, it is therefore compulsory that someone who has sat the training is onsite during the visit.
- Onsite visit of six hours
- Setting specific guidance on implementation of SoSAFE! operational components
- Setting specific guidance on practical implementation of SoSAFE!
- Assistance with lessons including planning, implementation and feedback
- With continued support, consultants can deliver lessons alongside school staff
- Optional provision of SoSAFE! staff overviews or parent information sessions
- Written report with advice and next steps
£600
(plus VAT and consultant’s travel/accommodation expenses)
Pyramid Certification Programme
Improve teaching organisation and effectiveness while developing learners’ communication and independence skills.
Pyramid Certification combines high-quality training and on-site guidance, spread across an entire year, to support teams to build effective learning environments using the Pyramid Approach to Education®.
When our consultant works with your team, they will use a clear framework to guide and track their progress in order that they develop key skills to meet the needs of each learner. Functional communication, independence and social skills are promoted as each of the nine elements of the Pyramid are implemented. Once all components of the Pyramid have been demonstrated certification will be awarded. Ongoing guidance can be provided beyond this time to maintain staff skill and certification.
Training for the team includes: PECS Level 1, Pyramid Approach to Education: Functional ABA and Teaching Critical Communication Skills.
This programme will give your team:
- Access to the Experts (including Bondy & Frost PECS co-founders)
- Improved Learner Performance
- Increased Staff Satisfaction
- Educational Accountability
- Sustainable Results
When we began our Pyramid journey 5 years ago, I don’t think we realised the impact that the process would have on our school…
Communication and behaviour have shown the greatest impact. Pyramid has ensured that learners have been as independent as possible and prepared for the future. Pyramid staff have always worked with Greenfield staff and learners to achieve the best outcomes and supported with excellent professionalism and knowledge.
– Rachel Faulkner, Deputy Head, Greenfield Special School
To book any of these services, please contact Louise Hotchkiss lhotchkiss@pecs.com or call +44 (0)1273 609555
+44 (0)1273 609555