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 ...

I am delighted to share with all my friends that I have been given an opportunity by CADRRE, TVM to participate in an International Conference on Autism this weekend as a Speaker . I am humbled by the fact that I have been invited to speak among well-respected and reputed international speakers who are an authority in this area and have done some wonderful work for autism. I am grateful to the organisers who gave me such a platform to share my journey with Addu and look forward to meeting the stalwarts in autism and learning from them. I have been invited to talk about the different approaches that I tried with Addu and to discuss about the results of that parent implemented intervention program. The Conference details are as below

Glimpse of workshop.. For empowering parents of children with Autism.. 33 interested parents joined and we had an interactive session!! Very very motivating session!!I am trying my best to reach out to more families!!Spreading awareness and knowledge

Glimpse of Todays workshop(18 Nov 2018) about structured teaching method and visual schedules in a home environment!!it was a great interactive session with 15 parents!! Arranged it in my house and focused on more practical learning!!All the motivated parents and I were so happy to do a session with them.

A note from my heart..... Advaith was a chubby and handsome boy during his child hood. All his motor milestones were on time. He started walking by 11 months and was playing with his brother and friends. He was a happy and active child. After 1 ½ years, slowly he went into his own world, he stopped responding to name call and was obsessed with cartoons like Thomas and friends. He was showing great interest in soft toys, trains, music. He stopped waving. He was not bothered about people around him. He was not bothered even whether I was around or not. He stopped babbling. He started crying for small reasons. I still remember that one day he cried for more than two hours continuously because the power went off and the TV was not working. We realised that something was wrong with him. After a lot of confusion, he was diagnosed with autism. Once while we were staying at a hotel, he started crying for his blanket at night. He cried for a long time and gave us the car keys to...