Avaz’s Top 4 Accessibility Features of iOS 14
Apple’s online-only Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 kicked off in great style on June 22nd with the company unveiling features of…
Kalaivani Narayanan
Using Social Stories to Explain Social Situations
Social stories are simple narratives that help people having deficits in social pragmatics understand appropriate social interaction protocols and responses.…
Building Language for All Communicative Purposes – Requesting and Emotions
In the previous two blogs we’ve been learning about communicative purposes/functions such as rejecting and commenting as well as Greetings…
Building Language for All Communicative Functions – Greetings and Questions
In the previous blog, we learnt strategies and vocabulary required for a few communicative functions such as Refusing and…
Expressing Emotions: Ideas to Teach Young Children
When children get better at expressing emotions, their anxieties and challenging behaviours can reduce. But feelings and emotions are complex…
Understanding Prompting Hierarchy
Any new learning can be quite overwhelming for the user. New users can benefit from prompting, regardless of age, communication…
Echolalia Intervention Techniques
Echolalia is quite commonly found in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Recent studies have suggested that echolalia may be…
Teaching Young AAC Users to Be Aware, Sensitive, and Empowered
Different parts of the world have seen protests & other sorts of upheavals in the past few months. Children may…
Building Language for All Communicative Functions
There are several reasons we communicate. Sometimes, we communicate just to get the attention of a loved one while other…
Building Literacy: Teaching Grammar to AAC Users
Autonomous communication and boundless expression are very much the primary goals of AAC. While we focus on developing communication skills,…