VOCA WORLD

Every child has a voice. Sometimes we just need to learn 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 developed VOCA™ – entrepreneur, founder, and enabler.
Driven by a passion to empower people, enable communication, and create social inclusion.

VOCA is a pilot project for children aged about 3 to 6 who learn and communicate in different ways – and for kindergartens and nurseries that want to live inclusion together. Interested in testing VOCA?

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What VOCA is

A learning set for children who communicate and learn in their own unique way: through words, pictures, gestures, movement, or Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).

VOCA consists of a picture book, a workbook, and picture cards that seamlessly work together. It was designed for the transition into nursery and kindergarten – a key phase for communication, belonging, and first social experiences. VOCA can just as flexibly be used one to one at home, in 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.
Two Adventures for Community and Team Spirit

Two Adventures for Community and Team Spirit

With the two stories “The Lost Starfish” and “The Mysterious Treasure Chest”, there are two exciting, age-appropriate themes to choose from. They are ready to use right away – everything needed is included in the set. Togetherness takes centre stage: many children can join in, share the excitement, and discover that every child has their very own superpower. This makes the stories the perfect bridge for building group cohesion and a strong classroom community.

  • Five picture cards for the story The Lost Starfish: crab, fish, cave, starfish and shell.

    The Lost Starfish

  • Five picture cards for the story The Mysterious Treasure Chest: a shark with the word Mut (courage), an octopus with the word Helfen (help), stones, a shell with a pearl and a card with a warning sign.

    The Mysterious Treasure Chest

How children work with VOCA
Activity wheel with ten verbs: colour, listen, read, match, draw, write, sing, sign, count, cut. A heart in the middle.

How children work with VOCA

A child doesn’t just listen to the story. They see it, point to the characters, match cards, draw, paint, sing, craft, and act it out. Every child takes the path that works best for them.

The materials are intentionally designed for the whole group to use together, ensuring that support never leaves anyone out.

“This is something the whole group uses – and that is exactly what allows this child to belong.”

Claudia Doron
The first prototype: Discover the Ocean

The first prototype: Discover the Ocean

Set
My Ocean Book for Schools & Therapies, first prototype “Discover the Ocean”
Age
3 years and up, designed to grow with each child’s abilities and way of communicating
Languages
English and German
Parts
Picture book, workbook, picture cards, lesson plan for 8 days
Characters
Shark, dolphin, crab, octopus, fish and whale
Activities
Colour, listen, read, match, draw, write, sing, sign, count, cut
Use
In a group or one to one: nursery, kindergarten, school, therapy, at home
Status
Prototype, being tested and developed further with educators, therapists and parents
  • 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 activities Colour, Draw, Count, Write and Cut.

    Part 2: The Workbook

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

  • Picture cards from the VOCA set on a wooden table: Suction Cups, Coral and Starfish.

    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 start finding your own ways: simplifying things, making them visible, connecting them and creating your own materials so that learning makes more 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
Founder & Developer of VOCA™

Empowerment is the common thread running through her work. For over 30 years, Claudia Doron has supported people in finding their footing, unlocking their strengths, and taking their place in society – as a coach, Relocation Consultant and founder of an NGO for education and equal opportunity.

Inspired by her five-year-old grandson with autism and his passion for ocean friends, VOCA™ was born: playful pathways to communication, learning, and inclusion.

Because belonging begins with being able to express yourself and be understood.

More about Claudia Doron

Claudia Doron is a certified coach, adult educator and lecturer, and has been a self-employed Relocation Consultant since 2006. For more than 30 years, she has supported people through processes of change, learning, and integration – across cultural, linguistic, and personal boundaries.

She has taught international students and future HR professionals, provided German language classes for refugees, and served as a member of a Swiss school board. As a Relocation Consultant, she supports individuals and families as they settle into a new country and helps companies successfully integrate international employees.

In 2010, she founded River of Hope and initiated the development of a school in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which today provides education for children and young people from Grade 1 through Grade 12. The education centre is also home to Africa’s first Peace Pitch – a football pitch for peace, developed in collaboration with the Children’s Football Alliance, using sport as a powerful way to foster community, connection, and peaceful coexistence.

As diverse as these different areas of work may seem, they are connected by one central question: How can we meet people in ways that help them feel understood, included, and empowered to develop their own potential?

Inspired by her autistic grandson, Claudia Doron is now bringing this perspective into the early years through VOCA™. VOCA™ grew from the idea of giving children different ways to discover, communicate, learn, and participate – starting with the child and their individual abilities.

She is currently deepening her knowledge through further training to become a Certified Autism Coach.

Understanding people. Enabling participation. Supporting development. From education to relocation to international development, sport, and VOCA™ – this idea has been the common thread throughout her work.

More at claudiadoron.com

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.

  • 2winners
  • A firsttie at the Ideencamp
Claudia Doron and Rosaria Michaela Ackermann holding the prize of Ideencamp #39 together.
Claudia Doron (left) and Rosaria Michaela Ackermann (right) share the prize of Ideencamp #39.

VOCA won the Ideencamp

At the Ideencamp of the Ideenkanal Foundation, people present their idea to an audience that thinks along, asks questions and votes at the end on which idea receives support.

VOCA took part in Vaduz on 17 September 2026 – and won, together with “Alleinerziehend & glücklich” by Rosaria Michaela Ackermann from Triesenberg.

The Ideencamp was so much more than a pitch for me. Suddenly people with very different experiences, ideas and networks were sitting around one table, thinking with me about what VOCA needs next.

Claudia Doron

With the prize money, Claudia Doron is producing more VOCA test sets and trying them out with more children, families, kindergartens and professionals. The next phase begins now: from prototype to proof of concept.

How the tie came about

The vote was close and every single vote could decide it. Claudia Doron and Rosaria Michaela Ackermann gave each other their vote. The result was a tie – for the first time, the Ideencamp had two winners.

The question VOCA went in with

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?

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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Are you a parent, do you run a nursery or school, work in therapy, or would you like to support VOCA™? Do you have questions or would you like to learn more about VOCA™? Get in touch with me.

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