Digital solutions for parent-centered speech intervention
Digital solutions for parent-centered speech intervention
About PenguinSmart
1 in 6 children has a developmental delay,
but 70% miss the best window to recover
Our Vision
To enable every child and family to reach their full potential, no matter their starting point
Our Mission
To provide greater access to more effective speech and language therapy intervention through a family-centered approach that results in faster and continual progress
Advisory Board
Our Advisory Board brings decades of experience across multiple industries
Founder and CEO of K&K Services , she is a multilingual, multi-certified pediatric health consultant in SLT, autism, audiology, interated nutrition and public health research working with culturally and linguistically diverse children with an array of neurogenic communication disorders.
Speech & Language Therapy Clinical Supervisor at California State University - East Bay; board-certified Behavior Analyst
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) expert; Multicultural Affairs Committee member of American Speech & Hearing Association. Cupertino school district speech and language therapy supervisor
Associate Professor at Stanford University; serial tech entrepreneur
ML expert; serial tech entrepreneur with 6x successful exits, including 2 IPOs
A letter from our founders
We are from different worlds - one from medicine & public health and one from business & technology; one from the beautiful islands of Taiwan and New Zealand and the other from sunny California. This is not a story of romance, but of a journey to merge different expertise and passions together to solve world-size problems.
Inspired by how social enterprises can change the world using technology and market forces, we set out to create a world where families can better raise their next generation, as we were looking to start a family ourselves.
We saw that there was a huge problem that affects 1/6 children worldwide - developmental delays and the easily-missed intervention window to effectively catch up. Despite over three decades of research indicating that more parental involvement at an earlier age leads to faster, greater improvements in a child's developmental abilities, there was no easy way for parents to themselves learn about and take advantage of home intervention and its benefits. The issues are awareness, access and adaptivity.
As Harvard and MIT alum, with the common passion for scaling health through tech, we decided to take this daunting issue head-on. With a little magic and the combination of data science and expert insights, PenguinSmart was born!
We are thrilled to see the changes in our clients' lives, and appreciate the high satisfaction score of 9.5 out of 10 from families worldwide!
We are committed to bringing intelligent early intervention support to families worldwide, starting with speech & language therapy, and we hope you're ready to join us!
Sincerely,
Amy & Matt Kwok
We Empower:
Parents
Supported by PenguinSmart save 20+ hours a month on commuting and waiting time for therapy sessions
Children
Supported by PenguinSmart in conjunction with clinician-delivered therapy experience (on average) 200% improvement rate than those who are treated by clinicians alone
Therapists & Clinicians
Supported by PenguinSmart save time in ongoing training and guidance for parents by remotely assigning and monitoring therapeutic programs for their patients to follow at home
Our mission
To provide greater access to more effective pediatric speech and language therapy through a family-centered approach that results in faster and continual progress.
Our vision
To enable every child and family to reach their full potential, no matter their starting point.
What We Do
Our History
PenguinSmart was founded in 2017 in the US by Harvard and MIT alumni, Amy and Matt Kwok, who wanted to help children reach their full potential by overcoming speech and language delays through parent-led intervention. As part of the company’s growth and development, they have been a part of the Alchemist Accelerator in Silicon Valley, BE Health Accelerator in Taipei, and SparkLabs. To date, they have helped thousands of parents and their children across 26 cities worldwide. Most recently, Amy was a finalist in the "Top 100 Healthcare Visionaries"# on behalf of PenguinSmart.
Our Solution
PenguinSmart’s core solution, Parent Education Academy, is a fully online intervention support service to supplement pediatric speech and language therapy for the home. The program combines masterclasses and a modular training regimen into a step-by-step learning plan for parents. The program allows busy parents to learn at their own pace and implement tools/activities right into daily interactions in the home. Children, as a result, are more engaged and see faster progress than with clinician intervention alone.
PenguinSmart imagines a future with:
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