Setting AAC Goals: Strategies for Emergent AAC Users
Setting AAC goals are an important part achieving the goal of autonomous communication. What do effective goals look like? What…
Language Skills
Reading Skills for AAC Users
Children love reading books. Fostering a love for reading books has many benefits in language development. This is especially true…
Prompting: 5 Activities to Make it Fun!
Prompting is an important strategy while learning to communicate. Here are a set of activities that remove the overwhelm and…
Not the Forty Percent…
An Avaz Megaphone Feature Adolescence & puberty are intense experiences in any child’s life. The changes in the body lead…
An AAC Christmas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! In this blog we explore multi-modal expression using AAC – with a…
Music & AAC: Learning Language
Can music help AAC users while learning language? Avaz’s resident SLP Niveditha did a deep dive into this question and…
AAC and Literacy
Literacy is an important milestone in learning. Content area and Discipline literacy are two approaches to literacy instruction. In this…
Beyond Functional Communication
Communication is a complex phenomenon. It serves certain functions in our everyday life. That said, we also communicate to share…
Phonological Awareness & AAC
Literacy is significantly about reading, writing and social interaction. Thanks to research, we now know that a lot more goes…
AAC and Gestalt Language Processors
Assistive Communication supports like AAC provide individuals with opportunities to overcome speech delays & difficulties, and begin communicating. AAC has…