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The Speech Therapist Who Bet the Parents Do the Real Work
A speech pathologist got tired of watching kids wait months for care they could barely access. So she built a company on an uncomfortable premise: the therapist is not the one who fixes your child's speech - you are.
Constant Therapy
Constant Therapy is a Boston-area digital health company that turns speech, language, and cognitive rehabilitation into an AI-personalized app. Spun out of Boston University's Aphasia Research Laboratory in 2012, its platform delivers more than 100,000 evidence-based exercises across 80-plus task categories to people recovering from stroke, traumatic brain injury, aphasia, dementia, and other neurological conditions - and to the clinicians who treat them. A patented NeuroPerformance Engine adapts each session to the individual, extending therapy beyond the clinic and into daily home practice.
Parallel
Parallel (Parallel Learning) is a New York-based special education company that connects school districts with licensed clinicians - school psychologists, speech-language pathologists, behavioral counselors, and specialized instructors - through a proprietary teletherapy and case-management platform. Founded in 2021 by Diana Heldfond, who was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia as a child, Parallel helps schools deliver legally required IEP services to students with learning and thinking differences when in-person staff are scarce. The company has raised about $48.9 million and reported that 98% of its students met or exceeded their IEP goals in the 2024-2025 school year.