You partner with the parents, coach them, and set goals for the child. SparkMinds takes these goals into everyday life.
As a teacher of the deaf or a speech-language pathologist, you turn everyday interactions into listening and language growth, shape the activities that move a child forward, and coach families to continue that work at home. Then the child leaves your session for the hundreds of ordinary moments you cannot be there for. SparkMinds is made for those moments.
It helps extend your goals into breakfast, art time, and the walk to the park, every day, so a family arrives at your next session having practiced rather than just waited for it. And for families still on a waitlist, it offers a warm, structured place to begin before your work together starts.
How SparkMinds helps your work
It carries your goals home
The daily guidance is grounded in listening and spoken language practice, so what a family does at breakfast or play time lines up with the targets you set in session, instead of drifting away from them.
It reaches families still waiting
Many families sit on a waitlist before services or therapy begin. SparkMinds gives them a gentle, structured place to start, so less of the early listening window is lost before they ever reach you.
It respects every path
SparkMinds supports families building listening and spoken language, and sign language is always welcome alongside it. Language is language. It never positions one path as superior, and it never replaces your work.
It gives you a clearer picture
When families use SparkMinds and the Listening Check app, they come to you with better notes on what is working at home, so your session time goes further and less of it is spent reconstructing the week.
Have a closer look
The best way to judge SparkMinds is to see it for yourself. Read the science it is built on, and the resource articles we are writing for the community.
If SparkMinds looks right for your families
If SparkMinds could help the families you work with, we would be grateful if you shared it with them, whenever the moment feels right.
They can join the Founding Families list at www.sparkminds.co/invitation?ref=tod-slp with no obligation. We are now onboarding families gradually.
Partner with us
We are exploring how we can give teachers and therapists access to a child's goals and progress in the app. If you would like to learn more and partner with us, tell us how to get in touch with you.