about avaz: the ipad app for children with autism

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Avaz is a research-based, award-winning AAC app for children with autism. It facilitates language development using a graded picture vocabulary. Avaz has a number of features that make it perfect both for children with autism as well as their caregivers. This presentation gives an overview about Avaz on the iPad and its features. www.avazapp.com

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Page 1: About Avaz: the iPad app for children with autism
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•  Helps children with autism learn language by communicating through pictures.

•  Kids sequence pictures from different categories to form sentences.

•  Thereby learning new vocabulary, core words, and word sequencing.

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•  Biggest strength: research-based vocabulary •  3 grades: Getting Started, Basic and Advanced •  Use Avaz out-of-the-box for a child of any

developmental level.

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•  Designed specially for children with autism, so has many features specific to their needs

•  For example, reinforces each word with its sound, an animation, its spelling, and its position in a sentence.

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•  Designed for both kids and their care-givers •  Drag and drop images to rearrange them in seconds •  Add a new image, or change an existing one, in 15 secs!

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•  Perfect for children transitioning to text •  One-click keyboard on all the picture screens •  Word prediction with pictures dramatically facilitates

sight reading and literacy

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•  “There’s a setting for everything in Avaz” •  Adjust the keyboard, pictures and audio in

many ways •  All settings are research-based and relevant

for autism

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We designed Avaz with one person in mind:

YOU.

Please contact us!

We’d be happy to answer your questions, hear your recommendations and suggestions, or just have a

conversation about AAC and autism.

Web: www.avazapp.com e-mail: [email protected]

Twitter: @avazapp