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Vidya Sagar, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that works with the disabled community, plans to grow augmentative and alternate connection (AAC) to assistance non-verbal children with disabilities pass better.
The NGO was instrumental successful bringing retired Avaz, an AAC instrumentality that helps non-verbal children with disabilities to pass done pictures and text. Recently, Avaz Inc. tied up with planetary AAC institution PRC-Saltillo.
Speaking astatine an lawsuit organised successful Chennai connected Monday, Poonam Natarajan, laminitis of Vidya Sagar, said: “Sign connection has go truthful good known contiguous but AAC is not, and we privation to get it there. We privation to marque definite that we bid teachers to usage AAC amended successful classrooms.”
Ajit Narayanan, laminitis and main enforcement serviceman (CEO) of Invention Labs and inventor of Avaz AAC, said: “The instrumentality enactment India connected the radar of the AAC world. One of the things with Avaz is that it’s axenic bully with nary acheronian side.”
Narayanan Ramakrishnan, CEO, Avaz Inc., said Avaz was built from a user-centric standpoint. “Avaz evolved astir the idiosyncratic organically, and that was however it was capable to make a niche,” helium added.
With a backing enactment of ₹35 lakh, Kalpana Rao, principal, Vidyasagar, said Vidya Sagar hoped to bid much parents and teachers successful AAC strategies and devices, and facilitate an ACC users forum to instrumentality connection forward, among different things. “Having a speech utilizing AAC is inactive a dream. It’s a peculiar time due to the fact that our travel with AAC is entering different level,” she added.
