2025 Educational Partner

  • Melinda Kotler

    IMPACT PARTNER
    Talk School Founder

  • Kristen Tabun

    IMPACT PARTNER
    Head of School

  • Ellie O'Kane

    M.S., CCC-SLP
    Speech & Language Pathology

  • Ashley Liberman

    M.S., OTR/L
    Occupational Therapy

  • Isabella Cozzarin

    M.S., CCC-SLP
    Aphasia Rehabilitation

  • Elena Levari

    EARLY EDUCATION
    Orton-Gillingham Practioner

Talk School’s
mission

To serve a unique and worthy community: students with severe speech and language differences who possess the skills to embark on the journey of communication and literacy development.

Partnering
for impact

The Foundation connected the Talk School with Reed AI to partner in identifying everyday opportunities and high-value use cases for kids and staff, and trialing applications in real-world settings to validate the impact and efficacy of the Adaptive Language Processing technology currently in development.

Collaborative
Tech Trials

MAY 2025: Word-Level Comprehension & Retention

  • SCENARIO:

    Speech therapists and an individual student work within their regular 1:1 therapy session. Testing scenarios ensure that the Reed app is complimenting and augmenting each therapists established therapy plan and each student’s business-as-usual progress plan.

    FOCUS:

    Reed is introduced in place of conventional analog tools when students are learning letter-sound combinations or net-new vocabulary. Students will engage Reed in real-time reveal of standard letters to Association Method encoding.

    GOALS:

    Talk Therapists will assess the efficacy of these sensory-rich learning interactions in student engagement, comprehension, retention, and progress toward their IEP objectives.

JULY 2025: Conversational Comprehension

  • SCENARIOS:

    (1) Education settings are Occupational Therapy and group activities sessions, that are centered around multi-step instruction and Activities of Daily Life (ADL).

    (2) Select Talk School parent households will bring Reed into their homes for use in everyday interactions.

    FOCUS:

    Educators and parents can capture their natural speech into reed and have it translated into a multisensory output for kids to engage with, in the moment.

    GOALS:

    Evaluate the accuracy of translating the core meaning behind spontaneous speech, and the efficacy of student comprehension in the moment from the translation.

Community Impact Partner

  • Dr. Richard M. Jay

    Board Chair
    Reed Adaptive Impact Foundation

  • Marc Pollick

    Founder & President
    The Giving Back Fund

  • Samantha Autry

    Fund Manager
    The Giving Back Fund

  • Gregory Paguaga

    Fund Coordinator
    The Giving Back Fund

The Giving
Back Fund

Since 1997, The Giving Back Fund has facilitated philanthropic initiatives for existing non-profit organizations, corporations and others who truly desire to give back. Their mission is to improve lives by expanding the number of people and the amount of resources dedicated to giving. Reed Adaptive Impact Foundation is a fiscally sponsored project of The Giving Back Fund, an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 04-3367888).

Together we
broaden impact

The Giving Back Fund makes it possible for the Reed Adaptive Impact Foundation to transform AI into Adaptive Impact for neurodiverse communities and unlock the full spectrum of connection with one another through technology. We pursue this by supporting cutting-edge R&D and broadening access to adaptive learning technologies for communities that need them.

Let’s redefine what’s possible, together.