PECS® (Picture Exchange Communication System®) & Communication
PECS Level 1 Training
Learn the Picture Exchange Communication System® (PECS®) protocol, an evidence-based practice.
PECS Level 2 Training
Move your PECS users to more advanced levels of communication.
Teaching Critical Communication Skills
Learn how to teach the 9 critical communication skills that lead to greater independence.
Transitioning from PECS to SGDs
Learn teaching strategies to help learners successfully transition from PECS to a Speech Generating Device.
Refresh Your PECS
This is a condensed Picture Exchange Communication System® (PECS)® refresher for participants who have previously attended a PECS Level 1 Training.
When Modeling Isn’t Enough
This session aims to equip participants with the knowledge and tools to support all individuals in becoming independent communicators using SGDs.
PECS Overview
Provides a basic introduction to the evidence-based Picture Exchange Communication System® (PECS®) protocol for your team members.
Creating the Foundation for Effective SGD Use
Review the foundational skills that contribute to successful SGD use.
SoSAFE! Social & Sexual Safety
Teaching social and relationship safety using a visual toolkit for SEN learners
Pyramid Approach & Behavior
The Pyramid Approach: Building Functional and Creative Learning Settings
Learn how to implement the Pyramid Approach to Education®, a comprehensive framework for establishing and supporting effective learning environments.
Challenging Behaviors: How to Prevent, Reduce, and Replace
This interactive training offers strategies for navigating behavior challenges with learners of all ages, in any setting.
The Language of Emotions
Review traditional approaches to teaching learners with autism to communicate about their emotions and learn more effective strategies.
Prompting in AAC: Helpful or Harmful?
Explore different recommendations related to prompting strategies in AAC, including the use of physical guidance.
Behavioral Skills Training (BST) for SLPs
Review applications of BST and the literature related to its application with AAC.
Short Talks & Conferences
Pyramid FUNctional Conference 2025
This year’s conference is your opportunity to gain valuable insights from leaders in the field of functional communication and education.
How to Say No and Live to Tell About It
Learn effective strategies for teaching our learners to tolerate "no" when something they want is unavailable.
ABA for SLPs: FUNctional Strategies
This unique, functional approach to ABA will give SLPs the tools and information for practical application of ABA to speech and language therapy.
Prompting in AAC: Helpful or Harmful?
Explore different recommendations related to prompting strategies in AAC, including the use of physical guidance.
A Really More Interesting Talk on Autoclitics
Learn why words like "really" and "more" are difficult to teach to learners with ASD and gain new teaching strategies.
Prompting, Stimulus Control, Error Correction: What’s Your Teaching Ritual?
Learn about several popular teaching strategies, including fading, most-to-least, and least-to-most.
A Simple Guide to Teaching at Home
Creating learning opportunities and teaching communication within daily activities and routines at home.
Verbal Behavior: Myths and Misconceptions
Explore whether current behavioral approaches reflect the contents of Skinner's book, Verbal Behavior. Practical applications will also be discussed.
DATA: Everything, Something or Nothing?
Leave this workshop ready to collect data anywhere on any skill.
Behavioral Skills Training (BST) for SLPs
Review applications of BST and the literature related to its application with AAC.
Stickers to Paychecks: Transitioning to Adulthood
We explore challenges with transitioning from adolescence to adulthood specifically related to vocational and leisure skills.
Lost in Transition: Considerations for Working with Adolescents with ASD
Review the challenges transitioning presents from one age to the next and gain strategies for teaching functional skills.
Activities for Expanding Communication
Learn about creating and implementing energizing and calming activities to increase communication skills.
Teleservices: Assessment, Strategies, and Evaluation
Learn strategies to use before, during, and after teleservice sessions with the goal of increasing effectiveness and optimizing outcomes for clients.
The Buddha-ful Eightfold Path and Behavior Analysis
Focus on how the application of key behavioral principles can be enhanced by incorporating the suggested behavioral changes that accompany each part of the Eightfold Path.
Teaching Communication Skills for Self-Advocacy
It is critical that we identify our learners’ willingness to participate in our lessons. This can sometimes be a complex task when working with learners with limited communicative repertoires. This presentation will describe ways to identify observable learner behavior that correlates with assent ...
Effective Strategies for Classroom Support Staff
Support staff have a significant impact on the success of the students they work with. One of the challenges educational teams and particularly educational assistants (i.e., teaching assistants, paraprofessionals) face as they support their students in working towards independence is determining how...
Neurodiversity, GLP, Core Boards and S2C… Oh My!
Explore trends in the field of AAC and the neurodiversity movement while applying a framework for ongoing ethical assessment.