The Company Making Apps For People Who Cannot Speak

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An app for people who have lost the ability to speak:

Rebecca Bright, a 39-year-old mother of two, was working as a speech and language therapist when she went to visit a patient who had "I took in a small PDA type device that she could use to support her communication," Rebecca said."She really was not interested. She picked up her regular phone and typed F*** off.

"We feel that we have changed the world a little bit for people with significant communication disabilities " Bright said."Our innovation makes a big difference to the people who have communication disabilities, but also to their families."AssistiveWare create an app called Proloquo2Go, but says she is confident Therapy Box stands its ground in the market.

"We work in a tight loop with our customers, so we can respond to their needs and make the product better quickly." One of Bright's earliest challenges was addressing barriers related to the U.K.'s National Health Service in This meant we had to defer to more traditional sales methods such as visiting hospitals one by one to show them our app on our iPads. This, while not very cost effective for an app company, has paid dividends in having a very stable base of early adopting clinicians and patients, who still use the app 8 years later.

 

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