Communication is the bedrock of

shared understanding
& social engagement.

Yet, 1.45B people globally with innate (ASD, Dyslexia) and acquired (TBI, Stroke) neurodivergence cannot access the tools, resources, and innovations required for their unique language and communication learning needs.

Lived Experience Guides Us

  • "AI that can understand [my] context more comprehensively would be transformative"

    Yoosun C.
    Non-Speaking

    CONTEXTUAL EXPERIENCES

  • "By the time I’m able to enter my reply, a lot of time, the learning moment has sort of passed”

    Ashley Liberman
    Occupational Therapist

    SPONTANEOUS INTERACTION

  • "I want to communicate with family, friends, and community like anyone else”

    Catlaina V.
    Non-Speaking ASD

    SOCIAL CONNECTION

  • “I didn’t mean to let AAC disappear into the abyss of
‘we’ll get to it soon’ but it did”

    Jill K.
    Parent of ASD 8 year old

    EFFORTLESS ADOPTION

  • "It's really hard to go from basic expression to conversational exchanges with AAC ”

    Ellie O’Kane
    Speech & Language Pathologist

    SCAFFOLDED PROGRESSION

  • "People need to know that [AAC]
 will take years to master”


    Tiffany J.
    ASD Individual with ASD Children

    INTUITIVE & ADAPTIVE

  • "I’d like to see non-speakers not being left to find their own interventions, like my parents”

    Niko B.
    Non-Speaking

    ACCESS & OPTIONALITY

  • "Cutting down the effort… and 
the effort people have to put in gives me less anxiety”

    Devva K.
    Aphasia, Acquired Neurodivergence

    TWO-WAY USER EXPERIENCES

  • "[Symbols] don’t always improve understanding and can distract from reading the actual text"

    Kate Ahern, M.S.Ed.
    Educational Specialist

    LITERACY-FORWARD METHODS

Real-World Impact Drives Us.

Family
Challenges

  • The learning curve and costs for parents are significant: Parent-led language interventions greatly improve both understanding and speaking skills in children, whether or not they have intellectual disabilities. But many families struggle to use AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) devices at home because there’s often little training provided. These devices can also be expensive, usually requiring specialized hardware. Traditional one-on-one therapy can cost $100–$250 per hour, and many children need several hours a week to see progress.

    🔎 Sources & Citations (13,14,15,60,62,35, 36) ↗

  • AAC Abandonment can impact more than just communication progress: Families often feel frustrated by the lack of training and support at home, which can lead them to stop using their AAC device altogether. When tools are hard to learn, relatives may feel shut out of meaningful connection, and caregiving options become limited to trained professionals. Without simple, intuitive tools, parents can’t easily rely on untrained family members or babysitters—turning everyday commitments into a long-term strain.

    🔎 Sources & Citations (14,62,63) ↗

  • Literacy learning is the gate to independent living: It is estimated that 85% of people on the autism spectrum are unemployed, and a rate of 30-40% among the learning challenged neurodivergent population, compared to 4.2% of the overall US population.

    🔎 Sources & Citations (54,55)

Students
Challenges

  • The gap is big, and it’s growing fast – especially in classrooms.  1:5 US students experience neurodivergent conditions that profoundly impacts language comprehension and learning. Autism diagnoses have jumped over 300% since 2000—now 1 in 31 children, compared to 1 in 150 just two decades ago. Despite this rise, public schools have only one Speech or Occupational Therapist for every 157 staff members—just 3% of the team. The system can’t keep up, and with no approved drug treatments in sight, the pressure lands heavily on parents and therapists.

    🔎 Sources & Citations (1,2,3,30,31,32,33,34,49)↗eps

  • There are ~2.4M U.S. school-age kids in rural and under-resourced areas without sufficient language support.

    🔎 Sources & Citations (7,8,9,)↗

  • Futures and potential are being stunted: More than 90% of individuals with complex communication needs enter adulthood without literacy skills, leaving neurodiverse students facing long-term educational delays, which in turn reduce workforce participation and cost the economy billions in lost productivity.

    🔎 Sources & Citations (11,64,)↗

Therapists
Challenges

  • It’s not a fair fight: The ratio of average number of Speech and Occupational Therapists compared with the number of teachers on staff in US public school districts is 1:157 (~3% of the staff in each district). Approximately 4.19 million students receive services from SLPs and OTs in U.S. public schools, which makes the ratio of students to therapists result in an average caseload of over 50 students per SLP and over 45 per OT.

    🔎 Sources & Citations (30,31,32,33,34)↗

  • ‘Better than nothing’ ? Barely. Developmental gaps persist and grow for the over ~5.8M US students that receive less than one hour of therapy per month from the ~165,000 U.S. licensed SLPs & OTs

    🔎 Sources & Citations (1,4,6,30,31,32,33,34)

  • Consistent therapy access is key for students with speech and language deficits. Interruptions in instruction can lead to significant skill regression, particularly among students with disabilities, making it much more difficult to achieve their IEP goals.

    🔎 Sources & Citations (59,60,61)

Today’s
Tech
Falls Short.

  • The problem grows, but the solutions don’t: Autism diagnoses surged 300% since 2000, and with billions projected in the global treatment markets for Autism and Dyslexia, R&D is focused on long-term pharmaceuticals while practical AI-powered and adaptive learning tools remain underdeveloped.

    🔎 Sources & Citations (1,49,50)↗

  • Tools are hard to learn and use: ~8.9M U.S. families face daily language communication struggles. AAC tools haven't effectively scaled to this growing population, in large part because they require a mastery of grammar and literacy to effectively use, leaving millions without language learning solutions, access, or options.

    🔎 Sources & Citations (21,26,27,28,29)↗

  • It just doesn’t feel natural for anyone: The most popular tools available today are inherently one-way, neurotypical-centric experiences. They provide the minimum viable mechanism for nontypical learners to conform their thinking and attempt communication with the typical world; furthermore, there are no social norms for how to engage someone with adaptive communication device in conversation or social communication.

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in redefining what’s
possible, together.