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 was designed as a complete language system, not just a collection of isolated symbols. Working together, its vocabulary allows autistic children to create many different combinations across needs, feelings, situations, actions, and responses.
Created with a Speech-Language Pathologist and shaped alongside the Autism community, including families of Autistic children, the system was built to reflect both professional expertise and real lived experience.
This makes communication more flexible, nuanced, and reflective of real life, giving children more ways to express what is happening, how they feel, and what they need.
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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
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. The discomfort, confusion, shame, and need are all there, but 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 help fill that gap, giving children a clearer way to express what is happening, how they feel, and what they need next.
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, whether that means going straight to a need or selecting just one symbol.
