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...

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 ...

Dear friends  In this video I am showing how I am training Addu to word level in Avaz. Avaz is his communication tool and he is communicating using pictures with words in Avaz. At present he can communicate for his needs, he can initiate interactions, he can express his feelings and can ask for medicines, he can introduce himself,can send greetings to friends and relatives, he can order food from restuarents etc. Now I am training him for words level. I taught him words to pi ctures matching using structured files, in worksheets during computer skill training programs etc. He is not a rote learner and so he doesn't know spellings. He is associating words using phonics. Now I am introducing words without pictures in Avaz. One folder I created with words and practicing. I started doing dictations too with Avaz keyboard. Like this he is moving to the next level and so he can generalise it. In the picture level his communication skills are very good and that's why I am moving to t...

Autism is a complex neurological disorder, it affects person’s ability to communicate, difficulties in social interaction and repetitive behaviors .  It's called as autism spectrum disorder as it reflects the wide variation in challenges and strengths possessed by each person with autism.  Difficulties with language and communication are a key feature in the discussion on autism.  Most of the children in spectrum remain non-verbal and some are verbal.  Verbal children can repeat words or talk about their favorite  cartoons, but they also struggle to use their vocabulary for communicating with others. This makes it very important to provide an alternative method of communication for children with autism.  AAC is augmentative alternative communication. It includes all forms of communication other than oral speech that are used to express thoughts, needs, wants and ideas.  AAC systems are categorised into aided and unaided systems.  Unaid...