VOCA WORLD

Every child has a voice. Sometimes we simply need to discover how to hear it.

Claudia Doron in a bright stairwell, smiling, wearing glasses and a colourfully patterned blouse. Lid of the VOCA box: My Ocean Book for Schools and Therapies, Part 1 The Book, Part 2 Workbook, Part 3 Cards.
Claudia Doron created VOCA: coach, adult educator, grandmother. In front, the first set.

A learning set of book, workbook and picture cards for children with communication and learning needs.

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What VOCA is

A learning set for children who communicate and learn in their own way: with words, signs, pictures, gestures or AAC.

It consists of a picture book, a workbook and picture cards that all belong to the same story.

Developed for the start of nursery and kindergarten, a formative time for communication, belonging and first social experiences. VOCA also works one to one, at home, at school or in therapy.

The VOCA set on a wooden table: the picture book Discover the Ocean, the workbook, picture cards and a memory game.
One book. Many possibilities. The first prototype with book, workbook and cards.
How children work with VOCA
Activity wheel with ten verbs: color, listen, read, match, draw, write, sing, sign, count, cut. A heart in the middle.

How children work with VOCA

A child does not just listen to the story. They see it, point at the characters, add cards, sign, sing, colour and act it out. Every child takes the way that is open to them.

The materials are deliberately designed so that the whole group uses them together and support singles no one out.

Here is something the whole group uses, and that is exactly what lets this child belong too.

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The first prototype: Discover the Ocean

The first prototype: Discover the Ocean

Six ocean friends, shark, dolphin, crab, octopus, fish and whale, lead through the story. For children aged 3 and up, designed to grow with each child's abilities and way of communicating. The set is called My Ocean Book for Schools & Therapies:

  • Book cover Discover the Ocean: shark, dolphin, crab, octopus, fish and whale under water, with the line Every child has a voice.

    Part 1: The Book

    The story of the ocean friends, to read aloud, listen to, point at and sign.

  • Cover of the VOCA Workbook for Schools and Therapies with the five activities Color, Draw, Count, Write, Cut.

    Part 2: The Workbook

    Colour, draw, count, write, cut. Each child in their own way.

  • Picture cards from the VOCA set: Suction Cups, Coral, Rocks, Starfish and Seaweed.

    Part 3: The Cards

    Picture cards for characters and words, for pointing, matching and signing.

For clarity

For clarity: VOCA is not a diagnostic or therapeutic method. It is a complementary, practical learning and communication tool, tested and developed further with children, parents, teachers and professionals.

How VOCA came about

  1. As a mother

    What do you do when the usual way of learning doesn't work for your child?

    I experienced exactly this first-hand. You search for support, try different approaches and eventually begin creating your own ways to explain, visualise and connect things so they make sense.

  2. As a grandmother

    Today, as a grandmother to children on the autism spectrum, some with limited or no spoken language, that question has returned in a new way. Inspired by my autistic grandson, I have experienced that communication goes far beyond spoken words. He is the reason VOCA exists.

    How can we help a child learn, understand and communicate when words alone are not enough?

  3. Today

    VOCA brings these experiences together by creating playful ways to see, hear, point, move, match, repeat, play and communicate. Because children learn differently, and sometimes we simply need to find a different way to reach them.

    My approach is co-creative: VOCA is developed in exchange with professionals, parents and the children themselves. The starting point is not what a child cannot do, but what interests them, how they communicate and what they need in order to belong.

    Claudia Doron

About Claudia

About Claudia

Claudia Doron is a certified coach, adult educator and lecturer with more than 25 years of experience in coaching, education and training. She has taught international students and future HR professionals, taught German to refugees and served on a Swiss school board. In 2010 she founded the association River of Hope, through which she initiated a Grade 1 to 12 school in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

For many years she has worked on the question of how people can be reached, included and supported in their development. Inspired by her autistic grandson, she developed VOCA and with it turns to the early years. She is currently training as a certified autism coach.

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For whom

VOCA starts with the child, not with the activity.

The starting point is not “What can’t this child do?” but:

  • What are their strengths? What interests and motivates them?
  • How do they communicate? How do they learn?
  • How do they find their way into the group? What do they need to take part actively?

VOCA supports children who communicate in different ways. Whether they use words, signs, pictures, gestures or AAC: every child deserves the opportunity to be heard and understood.

Designed especially for children with

  • autism
  • speech delay
  • Down syndrome
  • cerebral palsy
  • developmental delays
  • apraxia of speech
  • rare genetic conditions
  • hearing differences

For children aged 3 and up. Consultations, individual VOCA sessions and workshops are offered in English and German.

17September 2026

When
Thursday, Ideencamp #39
Where
Vadozner Huus, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Organiser
Ideenkanal Foundation
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 4 Quality Education, SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

The question for the Ideencamp

How can VOCA be developed, produced and distributed so that it helps as many children as possible to communicate, settle in and belong, at home and in kindergarten?

With this question, Claudia Doron presents VOCA at Ideencamp #39. The Ideencamp of the Ideenkanal Foundation brings ideas from Liechtenstein and the region together with people who can move them forward: with experience, contacts and open criticism.

The first prototype exists. The next step is to test it together with educators, therapists and parents, to develop it further on a sound professional basis and to build a modular series of books.

Get in touch VOCA on ideenkanal.com (German)

How you can support VOCA

The first prototype exists. To turn it into a series that reaches nurseries, schools and practices, Claudia Doron is looking for three kinds of partners:

Test
Nurseries, kindergartens, schools and therapy practices that try the prototype with children and report back what works and what is missing.
Co-develop
Professionals in education, therapy and AAC who develop VOCA further on a sound professional basis, in exchange with parents and children.
Enable
Foundations, companies and individuals who carry production and distribution so that VOCA reaches as many children as possible, at home and in kindergarten.
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You run a nursery or school, work in therapy, would like to support VOCA or have a question? Write to Claudia Doron.

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doron.claudia@gmail.com

+41 79 511 49 24