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When they can't speak,
this speaks for them

"When my mom had a stroke, she couldn't tell us what hurt. She'd just cry. The hospital had nothing that worked for her."

TinkySpeak Stroke Mode turns a pre-loaded tablet into a clinical communication system — pain tracking, emergency alerts, caregiver reports. Pre-loaded. Works offline. No training needed.

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From $150 Per device
100% Works offline
0 Training needed
HIPAA Friendly design
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← Left Side
Pain Level
8
out of 10
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Alert → Nurse Station
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The Story

"She couldn't tell us what hurt"

Luke built TinkySpeak for two people: his nonverbal autistic son, and his mother recovering from a stroke. Same family. Same need. Two completely different kinds of communication loss.

His son needed tiles to build sentences — "I want juice." His mom needed to tell a nurse, "The pain is in my left side. It's an 8 out of 10. It started this morning."

The hospital had a laminated card with smiley faces. That was it. A woman who'd raised a family, run a household, lived a full life — reduced to pointing at a cartoon face.

He built Stroke Mode the week she came home. Pain mapping. Emergency alerts. Vital signs tracking. A system that treats her like the adult she is — not a child learning to speak, but a person fighting to speak again.

The journey
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The stroke happens Mom can't speak. Hospital gives her a laminated card with faces. She cries because she can't tell anyone what hurts.
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Stroke Mode built in one week Pain body mapping. 0-10 scale. Emergency "call nurse" button. Vital signs dashboard. Built by the same system his son uses — adapted for adult medical needs.
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She points to her left side. Rating: 8. The nurse understands immediately. For the first time since the stroke, Mom communicates something specific. The care improves overnight.
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Recovery tracking begins Weekly communication reports. Pain trends. Aphasia severity estimates. Data the medical team can actually use — not guesswork.
Stroke Mode

Clinical communication tools
on a dedicated tablet

Purpose-built for medical environments. Designed for one-handed use. High contrast. Large touch targets. No internet required. Works the moment you turn it on.

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Pain Body Mapping

Tap where it hurts on a full-body diagram. Rate pain 0–10 with a simple slider. Describe the type — sharp, dull, burning, pressure. Nurses understand immediately, no guessing.

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Vital Signs Dashboard

Track and communicate blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature trends over time. Visualized so both patient and caregiver can see patterns. Shareable with medical team.

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Communication Gap Monitoring

Tracks how often and how complex the patient communicates. When frequency drops below baseline — it could signal a medical event. Caregivers get alerted before it becomes a crisis.

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Emergency Protocols

One-tap emergency alerts: "I can't breathe." "Something is wrong." "Call the nurse." "I need help now." Always visible. Always accessible. No menus to navigate in a crisis.

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Aphasia Recovery Tracking

Estimates aphasia severity over time based on communication complexity. Tracks vocabulary range, sentence length, response time. Visualizes the recovery curve for medical teams.

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Medical Session Summaries

Generate PDF reports for doctors, therapists, and family meetings. Communication frequency, pain history, recovery milestones — formatted for clinical use, not consumer dashboards.

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One-Handed Operation

Designed for post-stroke motor limitations. Large touch targets. High contrast. No pinching, no swiping, no small buttons. Works with either hand. Simplified UI that never overwhelms.

Dementia & Memory Loss

Maintaining connection
as words fade away

Stroke Mode is about recovery. Dementia communication is different — it's about preserving dignity, maintaining routine, and keeping the connection alive as cognition changes.

This is a grown person who lived a full life — raised children, held a career, had opinions, told jokes. TinkySpeak never forgets that. Adult vocabulary. Adult imagery. Dignity first, always.

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Memory Aid Tiles

Photos of family members with names and relationships. "This is your daughter Sarah." "This is your grandson Max." Familiar faces, always accessible, always patient.

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Routine Boards

Medication time. Meals. Bathroom. Rest. Doctor visit. Maintaining daily structure when internal time sense breaks down. Visual anchors for the day.

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Orientation Tiles

"You are at home." "Today is Tuesday." "It's morning." "You already had breakfast." Gentle, factual orientation without condescension.

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Familiar Voice Recordings

Family members record tile audio in their own voice. Hearing your daughter say "I love you, Dad" when you can't remember her name — the voice still reaches somewhere words can't.

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Progressive Simplification

As the condition advances, boards automatically simplify. Fewer tiles. Bigger targets. Simpler choices. The system adapts to where the person is, not where they were.

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Safety & Kiosk Lock

Device stays on TinkySpeak only — no accidental purchases, no confusing app switches. Caregiver alerts if communication patterns change significantly. Always on, always ready.

Intake & Inpatient Communication

Supplemental communication
from the point of arrival

When a patient presents with impaired speech — due to stroke, injury, intubation, or a language barrier — staff need a way to support basic communication quickly. TinkySpeak serves as a supplemental communication aid: pre-loaded, offline, and ready for immediate bedside use.

Important: TinkySpeak is a supplemental patient expression aid. It does not replace professional medical interpreters, certified translation services, or clinical speech-language pathology assessment. It is designed to support — not substitute — existing care workflows.

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Intake Communication Support

When a patient arrives unable to speak, a pre-loaded TinkySpeak device can assist with basic expression — pain assessment, body mapping, symptom indication, and yes/no responses. No configuration. No login. Available immediately.

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Multilingual Communication Aid

When staff and patients face language barriers during intake, multilingual tile boards can support basic communication of needs, pain, and symptoms. Five languages pre-loaded. Visual tiles supplement verbal communication.

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Temporary Speech Impairment

Facial trauma, jaw surgery, intubation, vocal cord injury — conditions that temporarily prevent speech. Patients can use structured boards to express pain levels, immediate needs, and basic responses throughout their stay.

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Pre-Built Expression Boards

Pain assessment. Basic needs. Comfort requests. Yes/No responses. Emotional state. Dietary preferences. Available as pre-loaded boards that staff can provide to any patient at any point in their care.

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No Setup Required

No IT tickets. No network configuration. No app downloads. No patient accounts. Staff retrieves a device, provides it to the patient, and basic communication can begin within seconds.

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On-Device Data Only

No patient information is transmitted or stored externally. At discharge, the device can be reset and returned to inventory. Designed to support HIPAA compliance through on-device architecture.

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Patient Presents

Speech impaired due to injury, stroke, intubation, or language barrier

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Device Provided

Pre-loaded tablet from supply inventory. No setup required.

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Supported Communication

Patient taps tiles to express pain, needs, and basic responses.

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Discharge & Reset

Device reset, returned to inventory. Ready for the next patient.

For Hospitals & Facilities

Equip an entire floor
with dedicated devices

Pre-loaded tablets for every room. No IT infrastructure. No cloud accounts. No vendor lock-in. The tablets arrive ready — unbox them and put one on every bedside table.

Individual pricing

$300 per device + $15/mo

Pre-loaded, configured, ready to go. Includes stroke tools, multilingual boards, and ongoing platform updates.

Bulk pricing (20+ devices)

$150 per device + $25/mo

Same full platform. Volume discount on hardware. Monthly covers dashboard, AI tools, and facility management features.

Cost a concern? Sponsorship and partnership programs available. Contact us to discuss options.
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Nurse Station Sync

Update every room's tablet from one device. Push a new board — all patients get it instantly. P2P over WiFi.

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Kiosk Mode

Patients can't exit to other apps. No accidental settings changes. No confused navigation. Device does one thing — communicate.

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QR Bedside Boards

Print QR codes, attach to bed rails. Scan loads that patient's custom board. New patient? New QR code. 30 seconds to swap.

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HIPAA-Friendly

No data leaves the device. No cloud. No accounts. No data harvesting. Designed to support HIPAA compliance by keeping all data on-device.

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Fully Offline

WiFi goes down? Doesn't matter. Every feature works without internet. Speech recognition, boards, pain tracking — all on-device.

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$25 Replacement

Device gets damaged? Ship it back, pay $25, get a replacement pre-loaded and ready. No patient goes without communication.

Caregiver Tools

You can't be there 24/7.
The dashboard can.

Track communication patterns, pain reports, and recovery progress. Get alerts when something changes. Share reports with the medical team. Multiple family members can access the same data.

Margaret's Communication Report
Active today
47
Tiles today
3.2
Avg pain
+12%
This week
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Communication Frequency

Track how many tiles are used daily, weekly, monthly. Spot trends before they become problems. Declining usage could mean declining health.

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Pain Reports Over Time

Visualize pain location, intensity, and frequency over days and weeks. Show the doctor a chart instead of trying to remember what happened Tuesday.

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Baseline Alerts

When communication drops below normal — the system flags it. Could be fatigue. Could be a medical event. Either way, you know about it.

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PDF Reports for Medical Team

Generate formatted reports for doctor visits, therapy sessions, family meetings. Real data, not anecdotes. Clinicians take it seriously because it looks serious.

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Family Access

Multiple caregivers see the same dashboard. Daughter in Texas, son in Ohio, nurse at the facility — everyone stays in sync on Mom's communication.

Real Stories
★★★★★

"My mom had a stroke and couldn't tell us what hurt. Stroke Mode let her point to her body on screen and rate her pain. It gave us a way to communicate when nothing else was working."

— Family caregiver
★★★★★

"We put TinkySpeak tablets in 8 rooms on our memory care floor. The orientation tiles — 'You are at home. Today is Wednesday.' — reduced patient agitation noticeably in the first week. Staff didn't need any training."

— Memory care facility director, Ohio
★★★★★

"In adult AAC, we have almost nothing affordable. Tobii is $15K. Most of my post-stroke patients go home with a laminated card. TinkySpeak is the first affordable option that I'd actually recommend clinically."

— Speech-Language Pathologist, Adult Rehab
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Give them back
the ability to be heard

A TinkySpeak tablet arrives pre-loaded and ready. Unbox it, set it by the bedside, and within minutes they can communicate pain, needs, and emotions. No setup. No training. No internet required.

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Why a dedicated device? If it's an app on your phone, it's your phone — not theirs. A stroke survivor needs a device that stays at their bedside, belongs to them, and is always ready. A dementia patient needs something that's always there, always the same, never confusing. The device is their voice.

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