Choice-Making Empowers Children
We asked the below question to our FB-community and we thank our fans for coming up with answers and making the discussion lively. The reason we posed this question was because it throws up a number of interesting subtleties in AAC strategy, which every parent should know. First a disclaimer that the ‘correct’ answer depends […]
admin December 8th, 2014
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Tags: AAC, AAC strategies, autism, Speech, therapy
Avaz-Webinar: Recording
It has been a wonderful month for us so far, and we conducted our first webinar last Thursday. Special educators and SLPs participated from around the world. We talked about the various elements of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and how Avaz addresses them. We started with a quick introduction to AAC, and about its […]admin November 21st, 2014
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Presume Competence – An AAC Mantra
I received a heart-warming email today from a mother whose two sons, both with autism, have been using Avaz for nearly a year now. Her email had one detail in particular which will probably remain with me for a very long time. She spoke about her elder son — let’s call him Harry — who […]admin November 20th, 2014
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Speech, Language, and Communication: What each of them means to a child with autism
I was at ISAAC 2014 in Lisbon earlier this year, and the highlight, for me, was the research symposium after the conference. This event included a hundred or more researchers in AAC from all over the world, who came together to discuss some very important cross-domain topics in the field. I had the good fortune […]admin November 12th, 2014
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Vigtigt ændring: Avaz 3.2
Date: 10-Nov-2014 Kære Avaz – Dansk Brugere, Vi har netop udgivet en gennemtestet stabil opdatering af Avaz Dansk i app-butikken – version 3.2.1 og det er sikkert at opdatere. Den seneste version af denne app vil give mange flere folk som har specielle behov, muligheden for at opleve og drage fordel af Avaz.vaz Dansk er […]admin November 12th, 2014
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Avaz Webinar-Discover How Avaz Helps Children Communicate
We’ve had a very exciting October. We attended the “Closing the Gap” conference in Minneapolis. We released Avaz Spanish. And we have been working on some exciting new projects. It’s all hush-hush for now but do watch out for more announcements. This Nov 13, we have a one-hour webinar ( 3 pm – 4 pm, […]admin November 11th, 2014
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Hola señoras y señores. Bienvenido a Avaz Espanol
Hello! If you were wondering why this sudden burst of Spanish, we have news! We just launched Avaz Spanish. Partly because we love saying Hola to each other, but primarily because we received a lot of interest from the Spanish-speaking populace. Avaz Spanish comes with a vocabulary of 5000+ words that has been localized to […]admin October 21st, 2014
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Contest Terms & Conditions
The promoter is: Avaz Inc. whose registered office is at Stanford Financial Square, 2600 El Caminao Real #403, Palo Alto, CA 94306 Employees of Avaz Inc. or their family members or anyone else connected in any way with the competition or helping to set up the competition shall not be permitted to enter the competition. […]admin October 16th, 2014
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Avaz goes to CTG
The Avaz team is eagerly looking forward to next week. On Monday, we fly to Minneapolis for the 32nd Closing the Gap (CTG) Conference – one of the best and most practitioner-driven Assistive Technology conferences in North America. This yearly conference provides a comprehensive examination of the recent developments in assistive technology for use by […]admin October 10th, 2014
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A day of nothing spoken, and much communicated @ Avaz
The Avaz office is usually a noisy place – whether it’s the engineering team discussing new ideas and new features, or the customer relations team discussing feedback from users, everyone has an opinion and everyone freely airs it. But on October 1, the office was quiet. A synthesized voice broke the silence. “Happy AAC Awareness […]admin October 6th, 2014
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