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Grid3 and Avaz’s AAC apps have some key differences. Grid3 offers robust behavior supports and family sharing features, making it great for early communication. Avaz focuses on affordability and ease of use, with natural voices and incentives to practice. In the table below, we’ll compare features like pricing, vocabulary, and ease of use to help you decide which AAC app is best for your needs.
Avaz |
Grid3 |
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| Good for Early Communication |
Avaz can be customized for most learners who have little language skills established.
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Can help early learners but includes an overwhelming set-up process
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| Affordable Pricing |
Offers a 14-day free trial with limited functionality, after which users must choose to subscribe for a lifetime ($200).
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The app-only is £9.99 per month or £349.99 one-time-payment. But dedicated devices are hundreds of dollars and funding is complicated.
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| Easy to Get Started |
Estimated time: 15 minutes It's easy to get started with the free trial, but it's because there is little customization allowed until fully purchased
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There are different "Grid sets" to choose from, so setup and process is different for each.
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| Easy Parent Modeling |
There's a function called Avaz live that allows therapists to remotely connect to the app during teletherapy sessions and model externally on the user's app.
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"Find word" functionality has to be added to the grid set to help guide a path to a word
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| Incentives to practice |
Avaz offers no rewards to users for praciticing language.
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The limited games offered may help children be excited to interact with the talker
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| Natural voices and language availability |
Available in English US, English AU, French, Sinhala, as well as 6 Indian languages: Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu.
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Available in 15 languages.
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| Customer Support |
Avaz does have a customer support number and email, but it is an Indian number, so accessibility is not always ideal for international users.
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Available by phone, website chat, and email, but limited onboarding support
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| Motor Planning |
While Avaz is more about picture communication, there is an option for users to enable the Page-Up and Page-Down keys instead of scrolling for users who learn best through motor planning.
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Each grid is based on the same layout, which helps with motor planning
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| Simplicity of screen |
The screen is color coded and simpler than many AAC apps, the "home" button is very small and the distinction between foldres and words is not clear.
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Depends on the grid chosen. Some are more complicated than others! Deciding which is best can be a bit overwhelming.
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| Affordable dedicated device option |
Avaz does not offer a dedicated device. It is app only.
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Funding a dedicated device includes a 4 step process with lots of paperwork and forms. The device costs are not clear up front.
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| Communication with spelling |
Users can toggle between a keyboard and symbols depending on if they want to create sentences or not.
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Grid3 does have a keyboard functionality that can be added to a grid
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| Reminders to Practice |
Reminders to practice are not included with Avaz' software.
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No reminders to practice Grid3 are included in-app.
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| Image and Symbol Quality |
Avaz uses 15,000 pictures from Symbolstix.
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Grid3 uses a variety of symbols: Widgit, PCS, Symbol Stix and Snap Photos
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| Fun Games to Build Skills |
While the Avaz app does not have any built-in games, it does have information on its website about games that can be helpful in motivating and building skills of AAC users.
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Grid3 does offer interactive learning through 25 animated activities.
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| Care team access |
Avaz has a unique setting that gives teletherapists access to remote modeling.
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Remote editing can only be done from a Windows computer.
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