Introducing a new language
Language of Bedwetting is the first vocabulary designed for millions of non-verbal autistic children to express themselves during one of their most vulnerable moments.
A structured system of AAC symbols: nouns, verbs, phrases, adjectives, and pronouns that helps autistic children express what happened, how they feel, and what they need. By combining them, children can communicate thousands of different messages around their experience.
A complete language system designed for non-verbal autistic children
The Language of Bedwetting is a complete language system designed to help Autistic children communicate about bedwetting with more clarity, confidence, and nuance. Built with a Speech-Language Pathologist and shaped with families from the Autism community, its vocabulary works together across needs, feelings, situations, actions, and responses, so children can express what is happening, how they feel, and what they need in the moments that matter.
Designed to work with your AAC setup
Built to integrate seamlessly into any customizable AAC app, this system can be added to the communication setup families, caregivers, AAC users, and Speech-Language Pathologists already use.
Compatible with major mobile operating systems
Working across every major mobile operating system, it supports the broader AAC landscape, from everyday mobile devices to some dedicated AAC devices with custom operating systems.
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new symbols
Developed with Speech-Language Pathologists
Designed for fuller expression
Thousands of possible combinations
Easy to implement into everyday AAC use
Organized to Support Communication
The system is color-coded and grouped for easier access, with symbols arranged from left to right to help build communication naturally: starting with pronouns, then verbs, then what happened, how it feels, and what is needed next. It can support full sentence-building, but it also works for quicker communication.
“All we want as parents of children with Autism is for them to be understood.”
Eileen Lamb
Author, advocate and Autism community leader
Created together with the Autism community
Sydney Lima
Speech-language pathologist specializing in AAC and functional communication systems for children with complex needs including Autism.
Eileen Lamb
Advocate, author and Autism community leader, bringing lived experience as both an autistic adult and mother of Autistic children.
Emcie Turineck
Consultant illustrator and designer on the Autism spectrum bringing lived experience and a deep understanding of how visual language can support clarity, accessibility and communication for neurodivergent audiences.
The Bedwetting Experience
Bedwetting affects 1 in 6 children, and Autistic children are more often affected. Toilet training may take longer, body signals can be harder to recognize, and some children may not wake when their bladder is full. As a result, bedwetting may persist longer than it typically does in neurotypical children. And for non-verbal Autistic children, the experience can be especially hard to communicate. Without the language to express what happened or what they need next, that experience becomes even more difficult to express. Until now.
AAC as a Voice
Augmentative and Alternative Communication, or AAC, often takes the form of apps that help non-verbal or minimally speaking individuals communicate by tapping symbols on a screen. These apps can support everyday communication, from needs and routines to emotions and choices. But while many AAC apps include symbols for daily life, bedwetting has often been left without the specific symbols needed to communicate it clearly. The Language of Bedwetting was created to solve this problem.
“I’m always interpreting what she wants, needs and feels but this language takes the guesswork out.”
Dana Garrett
Mother of an Autistic child
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