What Makes an AAC App Grow With You?
An AAC app may enter someone’s life at one point, but their communication needs will continue to change. The words…
Social Skills
Back to School: Building Self-Advocacy with AAC
When Back-to-School season arrives, supply lists are filled with folders, highlighters, and backpacks. For an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)…
Avaz Perspectives: What Happens When You Ask Us to Simplify AAC?
What Happens When You Ask Us to Simplify AAC? A peep into the conversations behind what we build. Avaz was…
What if the word you want is covered with tape?
A conversation between Keerthana, who leads the Avaz AAC product, and Lakshmi, who leads product marketing at Avaz. It started…
Asking Alexa for a Song Is Something We Do Every Day
“The same song again?” It’s a question many parents have asked at some point. But the answer might matter more…
Autonomy: A Mind of My Own
My Voice = My Identity What does the term ‘Autonomy’ mean to a nineteen year old? Is there a gap…
Move On
As parents, we can sometimes assume to know our child’s mind and what they want. Such an assumption keeps us…
Echolalia & Emotions: What You Need to Know
What can echolalia tell us about the emotions of a person? We focus a lot on decoding what echolalia means…
Do You Understand Your AAC User’s Emotions?
Is it important to understand the communicator’s emotions while they convey something? Reflexively we would say – of course, how…
Musings of An Introvert
Can an introvert become an ambivert? Read Aditi’s musings on journeying through social orientations as an autistic. This is an…