Late Talkers Foundation

What Late Talkers Foundation does

The Late Talkers Foundation, legally the Foundation for Families of Late Talking Children, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2020 and headquartered at P.O. Box 23583, Nashville, TN. It operates an online educational platform called The Parent School, which delivers structured courses, practicum modules, case examples, and a library of research resources to parents and caregivers of children who are late in developing speech and language skills. The curriculum spans six domains (talking and language, academics, social skills, behavior management, service delivery, and cognitive toolkit) and is developed with input from Dr. Stephen Camarata, a Vanderbilt University School of Medicine professor and permanent NIH study section member on Communication Disorders Research.

The technology underlying the platform is a standard learning management system (LMS) hosted on latetalkers.org that delivers on-demand video courses, webinars, podcasts, and downloadable resources. The product suite includes a free sample course (Course 101: Initiations), paid courses priced at $14-$18 each with unlimited views after purchase, a monthly podcast ('In My Own Words'), free recurring webinars with guest presenters, a Relate forum for family-to-family support, and a case examples video library. New courses are added approximately every three months and case examples every four months.

Revenue is generated through two streams: one-time course sales at $14-$18 per course and tax-deductible donations processed through the foundation's nonprofit status (TAX ID # 62-1781246). The go-to-market model is community-led and product-led, relying on free webinars, podcasts, blog content, and a free starter course to attract parents before converting them to paid curriculum. Distribution is exclusively self-serve through the website, serving a global audience with no geographic restrictions.

Name

Late Talkers Foundation

Legal name

Foundation for Families of Late Talking Children

Website

https://latetalkers.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Late Talkers Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating The Parent School, an online platform offering low-cost courses, webinars, podcasts, and a community forum for parents of late-talking children globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Parent Education for Speech and Language Delay

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Child and Youth Services (62411), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAAAFAF

Family & Parenting Education (Family Literacy, Parenting Skills)

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Community & Public Education Programs (Libraries, Community Centers)

SECONDARYEDACANAK

Parent-Facing Home Learning & Family Engagement Apps

Education/Early Childhood Education/Digital Learning Tools for Early Childhood

SECONDARYBPAGADAA

Early Childhood Education & Childcare Nonprofits

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Education & Youth Development Nonprofits

SECONDARYEDAGACAJ

Family Engagement & Parent-Facing Early Learning Content

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Early Childhood Learning Content

Keywords

• Parent education courses
• Speech delay resources
• Online learning platform
• Nonprofit family support
• Early language intervention

Headquarters

HQ city

Nashville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Course Sales: Revenue generated from selling individual courses through The Parent School online platform. Courses are purchased individually for $18 each, with some sample courses available for free. One course (The Three Day Challenge) is priced at $14. Purchased courses provide unlimited views.
2. Donations: 501(c)(3) nonprofit accepts donations from supporters to fund educational modules, online resources, family support groups, and maintain the platform. Donations are tax-deductible.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Late Talkers Foundation runs The Parent School, an online educational platform that sells individual courses ($14–$18) on language development for parents of late-talking children, alongside free practicum modules, case examples, a research library, webinars, a monthly podcast, and a community forum. It also accepts tax-deductible donations as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to fund its educational resources and family support.

Product overview

Late Talkers Foundation offers a single unified educational platform called The Parent School, which provides courses, practicum modules, case examples, and a library resource for parents of late-talking children. The core educational offerings include three main courses (Course 101: Initiations, Course 102: The Three Day Challenge, and Course 103: Understanding What You Hear) plus supplementary content including a monthly podcast ('In My Own Words'), free webinars, a Relate forum with parent interviews, and donation processing. The platform also provides collaborative tools for parent-therapist partnerships and is structured as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Parent School Online educational platform for parents of late-talking children offering individual purchasable courses (priced $14–$18 each with unlimited views), free practicum modules, video case examples, and a research library covering talking and language, academics, social skills, behavior management, service delivery, and the cognitive toolkit.
• Course 101: Initiations: An Introduction Welcome! Free introductory course covering communicative initiations, including verbal and nonverbal communication, key ingredients for better learning, and crafting responses to support late talkers.
• Course 102: The Three Day Challenge Paid course priced at $14.00 presenting an interactive three-day challenge teaching parents recasting, reflecting play, and following their child's lead for improved communication.
• Course 103: Understanding What You Hear - Three Requirements (Brick House Analogy) Paid course priced at $18.00 teaching parents the three requirements for extracting meaning from spoken language — vocabulary (bricks), grammar (mortar), and syntax (blueprint) — using a brick house analogy.

Quantifiable outcome

• Research shows parents who are coached by specialists learn strategies and apply them with exceptional success

Named customers2 records

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

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App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• TalkTools (by Innovative Therapists International): TalkTools provides parent training programs and online courses for oral-motor and speech-skill development in children; comparable as a structured online parent-education offering focused on speech skills, with overlapping audience of parents seeking home-based intervention techniques.
• Hanen Centre: Hanen is a nonprofit that develops and delivers parent-implemented early-language intervention programs (e.g., It Takes Two to Talk) for parents of children with language delays — directly paralleling Late Talkers Foundation's parent-coaching model for late talkers.

Broad incumbents

• Understood.org: Understood.org is a nonprofit resource hub serving parents of children with learning and attention issues including language delays; it overlaps on audience (parents seeking expert guidance) but operates as a broad content/community destination rather than a specialist late-talking curriculum.
• Sesame Workshop: Sesame Workshop is a major nonprofit producing early-childhood educational content (including language-development resources for parents) and reaches a global audience; comparable in mission and nonprofit/parent-education model, though vastly larger and not specialist in late talking.
• Child Mind Institute: Child Mind Institute is a nonprofit that provides expert-reviewed resources and education for parents on children's mental health and developmental issues including speech/language delays; comparable as a nonprofit parent-education authority, but operates across a much broader developmental-disorder scope.
• Zero to Three: Zero to Three is a nonprofit that develops resources and trains parents and professionals on early childhood development including language acquisition; comparable as an authoritative nonprofit parent-education publisher, though operating at a much broader early-childhood scope.
• ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association): ASHA is the professional association for speech-language pathologists and publishes extensive free parent-facing resources on speech and language development; comparable as an authoritative source families encounter alongside the foundation, but operates as a professional body rather than a direct course provider.

Emerging players

• Reading Eggs / Blake eLearning: Reading Eggs provides online early-literacy and language-learning courses for young children; comparable in self-serve online course model targeting parents of early-childhood learners, though positioned as a broader literacy product rather than late-talker specialist.
• Speech Blubs: Speech Blubs is a direct-to-consumer speech and language app for children that uses video modeling and activities to encourage verbalization; it overlaps with Late Talkers Foundation on target population (young children with speech delays) but competes via a mobile-app delivery model.
• Dr. Brown's Home Speech Therapy (YouTube / online resources): Dr. Brown's Home Speech Therapy and similar SLP-led YouTube/resource channels deliver free parent-facing speech and language content; comparable as a free, expert-led content channel targeting the same parent audience, though primarily video-based rather than structured LMS courses.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/late-talkers-foundation

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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Investors

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