About Pip
We built Pip because a voice should never be for sale.
And because the people who love a child know that child better than any company ever will.
Create your child's board — freeWhat made us angry.
The price. $250 to $300 before a child can say a word. Families told to wait months for funding while their child has things to say.
The rent. Subscriptions that charge every month for a child to keep talking. A voice that stops when a payment does.
The template. One board for every child on earth, locked "for their own good," as if a company could know a child better than the child's own family.
So we built the opposite.
Our promises.
A voice is not rented.
Never a subscription to speak.
Nothing is taken away.
A word your child has keeps speaking, paid or not.
Mom knows best.
Great defaults. Your call.
We never act on a guess.
Pip suggests. It never hides or clears your child's words.
Pip never listens.
No microphone unless you record a word.
Everything is ours.
Our pictures, our voices, our layout. We don't copy anyone's board.
Built on what the research says helps.
- Presume competence. Every word is there from day one. No tests to pass first.
- Core words. A few hundred words do most of the work in everyday talk, so they're always on the board.
- Modeling. Children learn AAC the way they learn speech, by seeing it used. That's why Pip lets you model from your phone.
- More than requests. Your child can protest, joke, comment, ask, and say how they feel, not just ask for snacks.
Your child has something to say tonight.
Every word free, forever. $49 once for the whole family.
Create your child's board — freeQuestions? hello@pipaac.org