Hear him.
This is a working preview of the boards Evan uses every day. Tap a picture. The phone speaks. That is the whole idea: the picture is the button, and the sentence is already there.
Uses your device’s built-in voice. Turn your sound on.
One tap. A full sentence.
On a traditional board, “I want chicken nuggets” is four to six taps across two or three screens. Here it is one. Every phrase on Evan’s talker was harvested from things he actually says, then put one tap from the surface.
Is the button.
No tiny tiles. The artwork fills the target so the eye and the finger land in the same place.
Is already built.
Sentence Build and the speller stay underneath for new thoughts. Daily thoughts do not pay the assembly toll.
Are real.
Family, teachers, and friends appear as themselves, not as generic symbols.
Fits in a pocket.
A standard phone, carried the way every other teenager carries one.
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Son, brother, student, beach kid, friend, teenager.
Evan was born in August 2010. He does not explain himself in spoken words. He explains himself in behavior: which buttons he reaches for, which screens he abandons, where his finger hovers, and where it flies.
“I wrote the code. Evan designed the communication.”Read the whole story →
“You and me, kid.
One day we’re gonna change the world.”