Our Mission — Every Voice Deserves to Be Heard

Built by a dad. For his own family.

"I don't write code. I have a nonverbal autistic child and a mother recovering from a stroke. I needed something that worked — so I figured out how to build it."

Luke set out to help his nonverbal autistic son say "I want juice" and his mother — recovering from a stroke and diagnosed with dementia — say "my head hurts." Plain, ordinary sentences. The kind most of us never think twice about. For his family, they were the whole world.

When he looked at what commercial AAC cost — thousands of dollars, locked behind insurance approvals and gatekeepers, with months of waiting in between — he decided the answer wasn't to fight that system. It was to build something better and give it away.

So that's what TinkySpeak is: a real, working AAC board builder you use right in your browser. Build a board, share it by QR, and it speaks on any device. Not a prototype — a live tool, made by someone who needed it himself.

Three things we hold to.

Free, because income isn't a voice

The ability to communicate shouldn't depend on your family's income. So the board builder is free forever — no account, no purchase, no catch. It runs on any phone, tablet, or computer you already own.

Dignity, because a voice is personal

An AAC board is a personal tool of expression — like a wheelchair or a hearing aid. No one should have to share their voice. Every person gets their own board, their own words, free.

Access, because waiting isn't fair

Browser-based and built for the devices families and schools already have. Share a board by QR and anyone can open it — no app to install, no account to create. Start in minutes, not months.

Families never pay. Here's how that works.

The promise only means something if it lasts. So the cost of keeping TinkySpeak free doesn't land on the people who need it — it's carried by partners, grants, and community support from organizations that believe communication is a right, not a product.

That's the whole arrangement: community-supported, so families and schools never pay. The builder stays open, the boards stay free, and the people we built this for never see a price tag. If your school or district needs help getting started, partnership and grant support is there too — just reach out.

Would you share a wheelchair?

Then don't share a voice.

AAC devices aren't classroom resources to pass around — they're personal tools of expression. No one shares a wheelchair. No one shares a hearing aid. So no one should have to share the way they speak.

TinkySpeak gives every person their own voice.
Their own board, free — no account, no price tag.
Because dignity shouldn't be shared.

Every voice deserves to be heard