• 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

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  • Leadership Team

    Amy Kwok

    Dr. Amy Kwok

    Chief Executive Officer

     

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    VP of Product & Services

     

     

    Matt Kwok

    Matthew Kwok

    VP of Operations

     

     

  • Advisory Board

    Our Advisory Board brings decades of experience across multiple industries

    Leah Huang
    Early Intervention Clinical Advisor

    Speech & Language Therapy Clinical Supervisor at California State University - East Bay; board-certified Behavior Analyst

    Greta Tan
    Speech Therapy Advisor

    Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) expert; Multicultural Affairs Committee member of American Speech & Hearing Association. Cupertino school district speech and language therapy supervisor

    Rob Luenberger
    Data Science Advisor

    Associate Professor at Stanford University; serial tech entrepreneur

    Kerry Champion
    Tech Advisor

    ML expert; serial tech entrepreneur with 6x successful exits, including 2 IPOs

  • Advisory Board

    Our Advisory Board brings decades of experience across multiple industries

    Kerry Champion

    Kat Demps, DrPH, MS, MA, CCC-SLP, CAS, CPH, CPCRT, IN, LM 

    Pediatric and Caregiver Health Clinical Advisor

    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.

    Leah Huang
    Early Intervention Clinical Advisor

    Speech & Language Therapy Clinical Supervisor at California State University - East Bay; board-certified Behavior Analyst

    Greta Tan
    Speech Therapy Advisor

    Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) expert; Multicultural Affairs Committee member of American Speech & Hearing Association. Cupertino school district speech and language therapy supervisor

    Rob Luenberger
    Data Science Advisor

    Associate Professor at Stanford University; serial tech entrepreneur

    Kerry Champion
    Tech Advisor

    ML expert; serial tech entrepreneur with 6x successful exits, including 2 IPOs

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    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

  • 1 in 6 children has a developmental delay,
    but 70% miss the best window to recover.

  • 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

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    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.

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    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.

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  • PenguinSmart imagines a future with:

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    Early Identification
    of development issues

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    Streamlined Pathways to needed care

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    Supported Parents and Families

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  • PenguinSmart is committed to:

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    Efficacy

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    Continuous Learning & Innovation

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    Finding Efficiencies

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    rehab support for Children & Families