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Our story
For my son — and every family like ours.
If you're here, you probably know the feeling. Your child has so much to say, and the tools that could help either cost more than a month of rent or sit behind months of insurance paperwork.
I'm a single dad. My son is nonverbal and autistic. I bought him an iPad so he could have a voice — and then found out the AAC apps run $200–$300, the dedicated devices insurance is “supposed” to cover can take years of appeals, and the $36–$60 picture boards can't grow as he grows.
So I built the board he actually needed — real photos of the people he loves, my own voice on the tiles, everything living right on his device. It worked. He started reaching for it.
Then I kept building it out, for you — because I don't think any family should have to wait or pay a fortune just to hear their kid ask for a snack, or say “I love you.”
“Communication is a human right. No family should have to wait on insurance — or pay hundreds — for their child to have one.”
What it's built around
Privacy is the product
“Zero remotely readable identifying child content.” Your child's photos, voice, and words live encrypted on your device — not in anyone's cloud, including ours.
The family's soul in it
Grandma's real face on the tile. Your real voice saying the word. A communication board should sound like home, not like a call center.
Complete without extras
Building boards by hand is the complete product — AI features are a convenience you can add, never a toll you must pay. The child's screen has zero AI, by architecture.
It's just me, honestly
SonSpeak is a small, independent project — one parent building for families like mine, and I read every message myself. I keep my name off the site on purpose: this isn't about me, it's about your child having a voice.
It's early access, and I'll always be straight with you about that. What you see here is what really works today — when something's still being built, I'll say so. No fake screens, no empty promises.