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Avaz is an effective aac app for autism. The Avaz picture mode is as simple as it gets. Tap on a message to add it to a sentence, and tap on a folder to navigate into it.

Avaz has age-appropriate picture sets, arranged in three grades. This helps children progress from basic action-based communication to word-based and phrase-based communication. Avaz, the best autism app for ipad supports sentence-based and phrase based communication for beginning communicators.

Avaz’s system of organizing categories and messages make it easy to focus on literacy.

Don’t you wish you could express urgent needs and frequently-used conversation phrases without navigating through categories? With Avaz, tapping the ‘Quick’ button takes you directly to the most useful messages – wherever you are in the app.

For children with distraction issues, or who have difficulties with fine motor movements, Avaz supports 4 different picture sizes.

In Avaz’s album mode, the message window disappears, making the interface even simpler. This is useful for young children, beginner AAC users and users with sensory issues.

Attractive reinforcement helps children stay focused on using Avaz. Avaz supports multi-sensory reinforcement through zooming animations and audio prompts.

In Avaz, you can add a new message in moments – and an Avaz user can even do it unassisted! Just type out the phrase or word you want to add, and tap the Save button followed by any key to store the message. This makes Avaz as the best autism app for ipad.

Everything in Avaz can be changed: the categorization, the images, the way Avaz speaks. Avaz has a set of more than 10,000 symbols from Symbolstix, and an incredibly simple interface to navigate through them and find the perfect symbol for you.

Sometimes, there’s no substitute for the real world. If you prefer to use real photographs instead of symbols, Avaz supports importing images from your picture library. On an iPad, you can also use a camera to take your own photographs.

It isn’t a lot of fun to have all the messages you created moved around or deleted accidentally. That’s why you can restrict certain activities with a password. You can also control whether users can add new messages themselves or not.

Arranging your templates in a grid never got simpler! With Avaz, just hold down an icon for a couple of seconds, and then drag it along the screen to wherever you want to place it.

Children who have used keyboards and computers as a part of their intervention will have no problems with Avaz’s QWE layout. However, children who find it difficult to work with multiple orderings of the alphabet can switch to a simpler ABC layout.
QWE layout is for children who have experience with computers and keyboards.

For the most frequently used words and phrases in a conversation, you don’t even have to type: you can pick them straight off Avaz’s quick response bar. And what’s more, the quick response bar is completely customizable: you can put anything you want in there.

You’ve never seen anything like it! Children with learning difficulties, bad spellers and language beginners will love how Avaz can predict a picture when you type the first one or two letters. Sight readers and picture readers can now use text mode, too.

Avaz isn’t just for basic communication. You can also use it to compose paragraphs and passages, and store them for later speaking. Saving and loading is intuitive and quick with Avaz.
You can use the Save functionality to create keyboard shortcuts to commonly used messages, customize the quick response bar, and create new picture templates which makes Avaz the best aac app for autism.

Want to repeat yourself? It isn’t necessary to type the same message over and over. Avaz has an inbuilt history of the last several messages that you spoke, and can retrieve it with just a single tap.

In a fast-flowing conversation with verbal people, sometimes all an AAC user wants to do is to indicate that they have something to say, so that people will pause and listen. That’s where the Alert button comes in.

Typing can take time – which is why prediction takes the delay out of working with text. Avaz can predict the word you’re trying to use, based on what you’ve typed so far. On an average, you can type a word with just 2 or 3 keystrokes!

Sight readers and people with learning disabilities use prediction, not just for speed but also for access. Avaz predicts what you’re trying to say, and shows you both full words as well as pictures.

Avaz uses natural, high quality Acapela voices – the emerging standard in voices for AAC applications. Avaz supports multiple voices, so you can choose a voice that suits your gender, age and accent.

You can also adjust the speed of the voice.

You can switch the keyboard layout between QWE and ABC. You can also selectively enable pictures in the prediction bar and the quick response bar.

You can change the size of the pictures, enable or disable picture display in the message box, and switch off the message box for album mode. You can also adjust the relative size of pictures to text. You can use picture mode settings to configure reinforcement-related options too, including zoom and highlight. If you wish to undo all of your customizations, you can also reload the original Avaz picture dictionary.

You can customize the voice, accent and speed in the Avaz settings screen. You can also choose whether to speak as you type, or speak out only after the message is completed.