The Avaz blog
Ideas, stories and resources for AAC.
What Questions Are You Asking your AAC Learners?
Questions are a part of any conversation. We ask and answer questions several times when talking to someone. It may be for…
Operational Competence for High Tech AAC Users
If we want AAC users to achieve communicative competence, we need to focus on building the five component skill areas as proposed…
About Open Ended Questions for AAC Learners
What kind of questions to ask to maximize engagement with AAC learners? While close-ended questions are quite common, read this blog to…
Coaching communication partners in AAC Teletherapy
Tele practice has become the norm of the day and AAC Teletherapy is no exception. With all the tools available in various…
Using Wordless Picture Books in Language Intervention
Books with no words?….YES. These books are so versatile that they can be used with children of any age or disability. The…
When AAC Learners Ask Questions
Do you think children enjoy answering questions or asking them? More often than not, it is the latter, right? This is because…
Supporting Transition from Picture to Text-based AAC
The beauty of a robust AAC system is that communicators who start out using pictures can go on to use text and…
Encouraging Communicators to Build Longer Sentences
Often when communicators are using only single words, there is a certain amount of frustration involved at the inability to go beyond…
Prompt Dependence: Why Fading is Important
Prompt is a cue or instruction that you give a user to help them learn a new skill. There are different types…
Building Choice Making in AAC Learners
Open-ended questions are important to encourage self-determination skills while binary choices may be used to encourage choice making in beginning communicators. Let’s…