PECS IV+ 4+
Pyramid Educational Consultants, Inc
Designed for iPad
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- €99.99
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Description
PECS IV+ is the solution for transitioning from PECS® to high-tech AAC. For learners who have mastered Phases I through IV of the Picture Exchange Communication System® using traditional PECS books, PECS IV+ is the high-tech next step! From Pyramid Educational Consultants, the developers of the evidence-based and world-renowned PECS®, PECS IV+ allows users to construct a multi-picture Sentence Strip™ via a dedicated Sentence Starter™ page and up to 30 digital PECS book pages for the in-app voice to speak.
Features of PECS IV+:
• Looks like a traditional PECS book with colored, tabbed pages with VELCRO® strips and a Sentence Strip so you can create a PECS IV+ book that looks identical to your student’s PECS book
• Drag and drop pictures from the tabbed pages to the Sentence Strip just like with a traditional PECS book
• Switch between pages by scrolling between and tapping on different tabs
• Rearrange pictures on the Sentence Strip without having to delete pictures
• Clear Sentence Strips with a single button push or clear individual pictures by swiping them back to the book
• Includes over 1,000 Pics for PECS images
• Integrated features from the PECS protocol such as constant time delay for the in-app voice
Customize each book:
• Open or close the dedicated Sentence Starter page with a single touch
• Create 1-30 tabbed pages
• Up to 28 pictures per page
• Customize each page by number of VELCRO® strips, color, category icon, and/or number of pictures on each page
Customize pictures:
• Use any of our included Pics for PECS images or add images from your photo library
• Change text on pictures
• Put text on top or bottom of pictures, or remove text from pictures
• Change size of pictures
• Search function for the Pics for PECS library included
Speech
• Use included customizable synthesized speech (AVSpeechSynthesizer) or record your own speech
• Incorporate the research-based constant time delay for ‘reading’ the Sentence Strip to create opportunities for the student to speak
Select from included profiles or create new profiles to customize:
• How pictures are moved: tap, drag or both
• How to clear (reset) the Sentence Strip
• Visibility of Sentence Starter page
• Reading Sentence Strip left to right or right to left
• When to read the Sentence Strip: as each picture is selected or with a single tap of the “Speak” button after the Sentence Strip is completed
Track student’s usage:
• Day by day list of Sentence Strips constructed by the student
• Weekly and monthly analysis of most frequently-used pictures
Pyramid Educational Consultants does not recommend starting functional communication training with an app or a speech generating device because these high-tech options do NOT require the social interaction that is crucial to communication and is the cornerstone of the Picture Exchange Communication System. Functional communication training should begin with a traditional PECS Communication Book. Research has shown that most learners can learn Phases I through IV of the low-tech PECS Communication protocol within 3- to 9-months.
Go to www.pecs.com for more information about PECS.
To view the PECS IV+ demo video or for more information about PECS IV+ visit www.pecs.com/PECSIV.
What’s New
Version 1.1.14
- Image layering bug introduced with iPadOS 17 release fixed on picture cards.
Ratings and Reviews
Customer support is absolutely terrible and wish we had gone with another app from the start
We purchased this app back in January of this year. It was working perfectly until September of this year and all of a sudden there were some fundamental problems with the app where basically when you came out of the app it would reconfigure and some of the pictures would be hiding behind others and all the pages would be muddled up. This was all very upsetting for my son who is a 4 year old Autistic little boy that has become very dependent on this app since we introduced it. It takes me a long time to reorganise and set up the pages again and if I am not with my so when it happens no one else can fix it so he becomes very distressed. A technical employee initially responded to me email and I sent videos showing exactly what happens but they have stopped responding to me since the 10th October. It is disgraceful. I wish we had chosen another app before introducing this one to our son purely based of the lack of customer support we have had.
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Information
- Provider
- Pyramid Group Management
- Size
- 273.9 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 10.3 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Pyramid Educational Consultants, LLC.
- Price
- €99.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.