PECS Symbols for College Life

Resource Toolkit Assignment:  Resource Summary Sheet

1.     Name of the tool, or a brief description: This is a list of PECS symbols that relate to college and college life.

2.     What type of patient(s) would you use this tool/technique with?  (Describe by characteristics or by etiology.) This list of symbols would be especially helpful for individuals who use PECS as a primary of secondary communication system (including, but not limited to individuals with autism spectrum disorders). Although most people are not solely relying on PECS once they reach college age, the symbols could be imported into an AAC app or device or printed and cut out to be added to a communication notebook, visual schedule, or resource board.

3.     How/why would you use this tool?  In what way will it be helpful? I would use this tool as a resource for finding specific PECS symbols to make resources to help individuals who might benefit from the visual representation of an idea/term (within the “college” category).

4.     What are the advantages of this tool/technique? It’s a list of PECS symbols that can be used in a variety of ways to meet an individual’s needs! It’s a low-tech resource that can be used over and over again. The text associated with each symbol could be modified and individualized to the client.

5.     Are there any disadvantages to this tool/technique? This is a limited list of symbols that may not be representative of a client’s needs in the college setting.

The next several questions relate to how you obtained this resource:

6.     If you used an existing tool, answer these two questions:

a)    Source/citation for this tool:   (whether published, or from a course, or SPHSC materials) This list of PECS symbols came from the Institute on Disabilities within Temple University on the following website: http://www.temple.edu/instituteondisabilities/aacvocabulary/COLLEGE_PIC.shtml

b)    Did you modify this tool?  If so, in what way? I did not modify this tool in any way

c)     Anything you still don’t like about it and may change in the future? Since there’s no way to make this list exhaustive, I would likely be pulling from other symbol sets to ensure that the client had everything he/she needed in his resource.

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Below are the Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) based on the College Life Full Vocabulary set (http://www.temple.edu/instituteondisabilities/aacvocabulary/COLLEGE_PIC.shtml) where Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) did not already exist when we conducted the College Life Discrepancy Analysis in 2004. These symbols are available through Mayer-Johnson Company or by copying and pasting the entire symbol set or individual symbols from this site.

21st century

absentee ballot

academic standards

add class

advisor

all nighter

analyze

application

assignment

assignment book

bibliophile

building access

calculation

campus

ceremony

chancellor

composition

computer access

cram

creativity

criteria

curriculum

database

dean

department

digital drop box

disability services

dissertation

doctorate

dormitory

drop class

due date

electives

equation

explain

extension

extra time

fail

final exam

financial aid

financial services

fine

fraternity

free writing

function

geography

gig

gown

group study area

group study area 1

house mates

hung over

informative

laboratory

lecture

lecture notes

lecturer

loan

loan forbearance

major

mascot

mascot name

matriculation

meal plan

media center

mid term

minor

mortarboard

name of college

nickname

nonfiction

note taker

objectives

off campus

on campus

oral test

orientation

overhead projector

parking services

participate

PhD
 

portfolio

postgraduate

prerequisite

presentation

presentation software

professor

professor name

project

promissory note

recreation center

register

remote access

rent

research

research paper

residential advisor

results

revise

rewritten

roommates

roster

scholarship

school event

scribe

sorority

special provisions

student activities

student activities 1

student lounge

student lounge 1

student organization

student union

student union 1

study abroad

subject

subordinate

subsidized

swear words

syllabus

synthesize

tailgate

term paper

text

thesis

time management

tokens

transcript

transfer

transparencies

tuition

tutor

tutorial

undergraduate

unsubsidized

vice chancellor

word processing

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