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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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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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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This October – Educate, Organize & Promote
“I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms they’re interested in.“ –Bill Gates Being the parent of a child with special needs is challenging. Add lack of communication, it can be frustrating […]admin September 30th, 2014
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Tags: AAC, autism, International AAC Awareness, October
Here’s what’s cooking in our kitchen
September has been a busy month for our developers at Avaz. The next version of Avaz US will be out in mid-October and we are super-excited about the new features in this version!! Here are two of our favorites: Graphic UI for Track Therapy: Until now you were able to view only text reports of […]admin September 23rd, 2014
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Avaz – why are we increasing the price?
Avaz has been on the App Store for 20 months and we have had tremendous response so far from our customers. A big heartfelt thanks to the people for believing in us and contributing to our success till now. We have had 2 major updates and several minor ones to improve the app based on […]admin July 21st, 2014
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Mom’s the word… Happy Mother’s Day!
Dear Mom, We often wonder how you do it all. How you can stay up all those nights, just so your child can sleep better. How you cook the most delicious meals, yet are content with the burnt ends of toasts. How, your joy in your child’s progress is often tinged with lost dreams and […]admin May 11th, 2014
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