The Avaz blog
Ideas, stories and resources for AAC.
Building Language for All Communicative Purposes – Requesting and Emotions
In the previous two blogs we've been learning about communicative purposes/functions such as rejecting and commenting as well as Greetings and Questions.…
Building Language for All Communicative Functions – Greetings and Questions
In the previous blog, we learnt strategies and vocabulary required for a few communicative functions such as Refusing and Commenting. This week,…
Expressing Emotions: Ideas to Teach Young Children
When children get better at expressing emotions, their anxieties and challenging behaviours can reduce. But feelings and emotions are complex and abstract…
Understanding Prompting Hierarchy
Any new learning can be quite overwhelming for the user. New users can benefit from prompting, regardless of age, communication skills, or…
Echolalia Intervention Techniques
Echolalia is quite commonly found in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Recent studies have suggested that echolalia may be meaningful communication…
Teaching Young AAC Users to Be Aware, Sensitive, and Empowered
Different parts of the world have seen protests & other sorts of upheavals in the past few months. Children may struggle to…
Building Language for All Communicative Functions
There are several reasons we communicate. Sometimes, we communicate just to get the attention of a loved one while other times we…
Building Literacy: Teaching Grammar to AAC Users
Autonomous communication and boundless expression are very much the primary goals of AAC. While we focus on developing communication skills, it is…
Avaz AAC App: The New found Voice at Sunrise Learning
Sunrise Learning is a Center for Autism and Special Needs located in Noida, India. The center uses Avaz extensively for teaching communication…
Expansion of Language: Supporting AAC Learner’s Progress
We often see that one of the major stumbling blocks for an emergent communicator's progress is the struggle to get past single…