My name is Dan Feshbach and I am the father of a 13 teenage boy with autism.

After spending many frustrating years watching my son fall further and further behind in his language and struggle to communicate with family and friends, I decided to leverage my background as a software entrepreneur to find a way to help him. So in 2000 I teamed up with a psychology professor at University of CA at Santa Cruz to create a learning language software company called Animated Speech. (www.animatedspeech.com).

The research based software products we have developed all have one goal: to help autistic children improve their communication and more fully engage with the world around them.

Please help us accomplish this goal by placing the following copy and link on your website:

Enhance your child’s speech therapy with fun, engaging software.
Based on research in education, linguistics, and psychology, Timo software products have been proven extremely effective for autistic children in both schools and family settings. To learn more please visit us at: http://www.animatedspeech.com/micro/main.html

Of course, we would like to reciprocate by placing a link on our website that leads to yours. Simply reply to this email with the url you’d like us to feature. If you are interested I can send you product samples as well.

Thank you for including our link on your website. By doing so, you are providing a valuable option for parents, family and educators and therapists who are looking for way to help a child in their life who has autism.

-Dan

More About Our Language Learning Software:
Based on the combined expertise of speech therapists, special educators, and academics, Team Up with Timo products are a series of three researched-based language intervention programs, each tailored to a different learning challenge:
Team Up With Timo: Vocabulary —Designed to help children in K-4th grade learn new words and concepts. Focuses on identification, speech reading and spelling skills.

Team Up With Timo: Stories — Teaches narrative language skills and story comprehension through storytelling and skilled based games.

Team Up With Timo: Lesson Creator — Makes it easy to create personalized, engaging and effective multimedia vocabulary lessons. Can be customized with 3,5000 Mayer Johnson picture symbols or any digital image.

The secret to the success of the Team Up with Timo products is the animated character Timo, who interacts with a child throughout the lesson and provides a supportive, fun, and a motivating environment. Children rely on both auditory and visual cues to learn new language, so the talking Timo character is extremely effective in helping children with autism develop their vocabulary, listening comprehension, language, and story sequencing and retelling skills. To learn more, visit http://www.animatedspeech.com