Phase 1 How To Communicate The child learns how to pick up a picture symbol and exchange it for a desired item or activity Phase 2 Distance and Persistence The child learns to generalize and maintain his actions in a variety of natural settings and with different communication partners (2.g., parents, siblings, teachers, peers) Phase 3 Picture Discrimination The child learns to choose from two or more picture symbols to request a desired item or activity Phase 4. Sentence Structure The child learns how to ask for an item or activity by constructing a simple sentence out of picture symbols—often referred to as a sentence strip. For example, the child could use the "I want” and “pizza” symbols to request a slice of pizza. The child will later learn to build more complex sentences using picture symbol cards that represent adjectives, verbs, and prepositions.Phase 5: The child learns to respond to the question “What do you want?" by creating a sentence using a picture symbol for “I want” combined with a picture of the Answering desired item or activity. Questions Phase 6 The child learns to answer questions such as “What do you see?” by creating a sentence strip with symbols representing I see" and an item. Later, the Commenting child is encouraged to initiate conversations using the sentence strips. Source: hifps /iris peabody vanderbilt edu/module/asd2/cresource/q2/poa/#eontent