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About us &
meet the team
Since our founding in 2018, we’ve strived to adhere to our company goals and values. Read about them here and meet the people who make Verboso happen.
Steve Arose
CEO
Steve heads business operations, utilizing his experience in general corporate law combined with his MBA education.
He believes that getting speech therapy should be fun, engaging, and accessible for everyone. Steve is passionate about building Verboso's services and technology to reach as many individuals who need it.
Amy Linde
CCO
Amy finished her Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology at Northwestern University in 2009. She has worked as a pediatric speech-language pathologist ever since!
She leverages her years of experience in articulation therapy to develop therapy plans, guide our product development, and ensure the clinical effectiveness of our technology. She loves treating persistent articulation disorders and is the mom of two boys and two dogs.
Michael Young
CTO
Michael heads product development by leveraging his experience in AI, machine learning and assistive technologies.
Michael's little brother struggled with speech therapy, particularly with at-home practice. This inspired Michael and the team to found Verboso.
Christian Bradley
Lead Game Developer
Christian utilizes his strong software engineering background and love for design to lead the charge on game development here at Verboso.
He has always felt that games have a unique strength being an interactive medium, and aims to draw out their potential to bring fun and memorable experiences to players everywhere.
Our commitments
Vision
Verboso’s vision is to provide universal access to high quality and effective speech therapy services.
Mission
Our mission is to improve the speech of children everywhere
by harnessing state-of-the-art technology to create speech
therapy video games with automated feedback.
We're dedicated!
We believe in advocating for democratizing access to technology for all children that need it. If you are interested and would like to take action, please download both forms below.
Input your legislator’s name, your name and your state into the letter, then email it to the legislator in your district. If you need help determining who your legislator is, please visit www.asha.org/advocacy/state and click on your state.
Diversity, inclusion & accessibility
Diversity, inclusion, and accessibility are critical to the success of our mission. We cannot achieve improved speech skills for all children if we do not acknowledge the role of race and socioeconomic backgrounds in the availability of speech services and access to care. We cannot create quality speech products that are effective for all children without the inclusion of traditionally underrepresented groups.
Diversity, inclusion & accessibility within products
Our products and messaging will strive to include representation of all races, sexes, gender identities and orientations as well as individuals of all ability levels. We will refrain from judgment statements regarding race, sex, gender identity, orientation, socioeconomic status or ability level. We will exercise consideration in our development of automatic feedback to acknowledge distinctions between dialect differences and disordered speech and language.
We will strive to ensure that our products are accessible to all persons regardless of socioeconomic background or ability level. As a team, we understand there is a gap in access to technology, which in turn reduces access to speech therapy services and other critical resources in today’s educational and employment systems. Our team will develop programs to address this gap. As a first step, our team has written to our elected officials in our states to encourage support for programs that provide funding for children in under-served communities to receive access to the internet/computers for home use. We encourage others to do the same and have provided a form letter you can use here. You can also find contact info for your local official by visiting https://www.asha.org/advocacy/state and clicking on your state or using https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative.
Diversity, inclusion & accessibility within our team
We will strive to ensure our workplace is diverse and supportive of individuals of all backgrounds and ability levels. Minority groups are underrepresented in the fields of engineering and speech-language pathology. The diversity of our team depends upon the enhanced diversity of these fields, which requires a pipeline of students from all backgrounds enrolling in majors that lead to careers in these fields. We acknowledge the gaps in educational attainment are systematic and stem from racism, prejudice, lack of equal opportunities, and complacency by those unaffected. To this end, we pledge to make volunteerism a company priority, specifically with respect to addressing the educational needs of the youth considering careers in the fields of engineering and speech-language pathology. We will encourage and support members of the Verboso team to share their skill sets with underprivileged youth through tutoring and mentoring programs. Specific areas of need include, but are not limited to:
Tutoring youth from underrepresented groups to help them achieve basic computer programming literacy; and
mentoring and supporting youth from underrepresented groups to aid in preparation of applications to speech-language pathology higher education programs.
Finally, we will publish an annual impact report regarding the actionable steps we have taken as a company in furtherance of this statement. This impact report will be publicly available on our website. Verboso is committed to diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. We will continue to do our part to drive change and we will continually review and edit this policy as appropriate to ensure we have the greatest impact we can as a company.