Barbara Fernandes Discusses Smarty Ears & the Speech and Language Academy

Barbara Fernandes, founder and CEO of Smarty Ears, is well known for her innovative and breakthrough product development, which translates science into user friendly and powerful technology to support individuals with communication disorders. Barbara transformed an entire industry to adopt mobile technologies through the design and development of over 60 mobile applications and an entire communication symbol library. As the founder of Smarty Symbols, Barbara also created the most inclusive and comprehensive symbol library and developed a powerful new technology that is disrupting the special education field by providing a platform for custom visual support creation. Most recently, Barbara has been awarded a small business innovation research grant by the National Institute of Health, and she released a ground-breaking technology called the Speech and Language Academy.