My Special Journey with Advaith

What is Avaz? Avaz is an AAC App for children autism to help build communication skills. Avaz is designed with a focus to make speech therapy more effective, develop the child’s language and improve his indent to communicate. Avaz uses picture, symbols and high-quality voice synthesis to help users create messages and develop language skills. Avaz seamlessly integrates a powerful keyboard to help users transitioning to text. Avaz can be used for non verbal and verbal kids to improve their communication skills, build more compression skills and to teach academics. Q.How to Start with Avaz? Ans. Avaz should introduce to build communication skills first. If your child is in the first phase of PECS, you can introduce Avaz and can move forward with the same steps how I was explaining for PECS. Building spontaneous communication is the most important thing. Q. Which is most important in this process? Ans. Customization and using it consistently In the above

Friends, I had attended the online classes of Madras Dislexia Association and completed the course. It was a great learning experience.

1. What is communication? Communication is a two-way process involving expression of ideas with a communication partner and  he will be able to understand what I am trying to convey. Accordingly, the partner gives a response to what I say or ask. This makes the process complete. For example, I am asking for a pen to my son. He takes it and gives it to me. This is a complete communication. Communication can be verbal or non-verbal or a combination of the two. 2. Types of Communication There are 2 types of communication – verbal and non-verbal. In verbal communication, we use our verbal skills in the form of words and sentences. Non-verbal communication involves using gestures, eye or hand movements and other methods, instead of words. Pointing, gestures, visual clues etc are ways of communicating non-verbally. 3. Which type of communication is the most important? Both types are equally important. In our day to day life we are using both verbal and nonverbal comm