Sensory Bridges × Samsung — Partnership Fit

The Opportunity

A mandated, recurring need with no purpose-built tool.

70% of individuals with autism are unaware of how loud — or softly — they speak. Every student served under IDEA requires legally mandated IEP documentation reviewed at minimum annually. The educators and therapists who produce that documentation are doing it manually, from memory, with no objective data source. That is the gap.

Why Autism First The fastest-growing special education category in the United States. The most documentation-intensive. The most engaged caregiver community. And a population with a specific, unmet biometric awareness need that no existing wearable addresses.

The Administrative Burden 78.5% of school SLPs report staffing shortages — with administrative documentation as the leading driver. Brooks Band directly reduces that burden by turning timestamped biometric awareness data into the reports educators are already legally required to produce.

Market Demand Is Real 12 schools and therapy centers have active purchase intent before a single unit ships commercially. Every feature in Brooks Band was co-developed with the educators, OTs, and SLPs who will use it — and who have been asking for it for years.

Population / Market	Size	Signal	Source
Students with autism — U.S. special ed	800K+	Autism now 11% of all IDEA students — fastest-growing category	U.S. DOE IDEA §618, 2023
Total IDEA students (all neurodivergent categories)	7.5M	ADHD, sensory processing, Down syndrome — same platform, expanded reach	NCES 2022–23
Focus-region students (5-hr radius from Chattanooga)	74,600	TN, GA, AL, NC — 72 districts analyzed, verified from IDEA 618 data	Sensory Bridges district analysis
School SLPs reporting staffing shortages	78.5%	Administrative burden is the leading driver — directly reduced by Brooks Band	ASHA Schools Survey, 2024
Global assistive technology market, 2024	$26.8B	→ $41B by 2033 at 4.33% CAGR	IMARC Group, 2024
Special education software market, 2024	$4.1B	→ $5.6B by 2030 at 5.4% CAGR	Research & Markets, 2024

CDC Shaw KA et al. MMWR Surveill Summ 2025;74(SS-2):1–25 | NCES Condition of Education 2024. nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cgg | ASHA 2024 Schools Survey. asha.org/research/memberdata/schoolsurvey | IMARC Global Assistive Technology Market 2024–2033 | R&M Special Education Software Market, Research & Markets 2024

What Brooks Band Does

What changes. For whom. How it is measured.

These are the questions that matter in any enterprise partnership conversation — what does the system actually produce, and how do you prove it worked?

The Awareness Cue — Private and Immediate

When voice amplitude reaches a personalized threshold in either direction — too loud or too soft — the Galaxy Watch delivers a haptic cue directly to the child's wrist. No adult intervenes. No classmate notices. The child receives a private signal in the same moment the behavior occurs. This is the fundamental difference from every existing approach.

Bidirectional Monitoring — Both Directions

70% of individuals with autism don't know how loud they speak. The same population frequently speaks too softly with equal unawareness. Brooks Band monitors both thresholds with equivalent precision — addressing a gap no existing consumer wearable has been built to fill.

What Happens After the Cue — A Customizable Response Layer

The cue prompts a response configured to each child's therapy plan — including a calming music prompt developed in collaboration with a licensed occupational therapist in clinical practice, visual guided breathing on the watch face, or a custom prompt set by the child's OT or SLP. No two children are the same. The response layer is configured by the professionals who know the child best and updated as their needs evolve.

How we measure and report that something changed

Phase 1 Pilot Metrics

Three reportable outcomes: device wear tolerance and acceptance; threshold calibration accuracy per child; educator-documented awareness response rate. Objective, timestamped, and reportable to investors and school district administrators.

What the Platform Reports

Every awareness event is timestamped. The platform generates event frequency, time-of-day patterns, awareness response rate, session duration, and recovery time — populating directly into IEP progress documentation. The data doesn't sit in a dashboard. It becomes the report.

The Biometric Context Layer

Heart rate inter-beat intervals, skin temperature, and accelerometer data create a multi-signal context window around each awareness event. Our UTC research study is designed to build the longitudinal evidence base. Phase 1 delivers behavioral response data. Phase 2 delivers biometric correlation data.

Every stakeholder in the school receives value

01 — Student

The Child

Private awareness cue. No adult needed. Self-awareness builds without stigma over time.

02 — Educator

Special Ed Teacher

Session data auto-populates IEP documentation. Manual observation notes replaced with objective data.

03 — Therapist

OT / SLP

Biometric context per event. Updates therapy goals from actual session data. Configures response options.

04 — Family

Parent / Guardian

Controls data sharing under FERPA. Family-facing session summaries. Informs home routines.

05 — District

Administration

Defensible IEP documentation. Assistive technology investment justified with outcome data.

Competitive Position

The nearest comparison reveals why Brooks Band is a different category.

Revibe — a Samsung partner — provides a useful frame. The comparison makes clear that Brooks Band addresses a distinct and larger unmet need.

Brooks Band™ System

Sensory Bridges · U.S. Patent Filed March 2026

Active

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Voice volume awareness — bidirectional. Too loud AND too soft. The only platform addressing both directions of vocal unawareness in the neurodivergent population.

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Multi-biometric context. Heart rate IBI, skin temperature, EDA, and accelerometer — not a single signal. The complete physiological picture around each awareness event.

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Documentation output that closes the loop. IEP progress reports auto-generated from biometric awareness data. The only platform that turns sensor data directly into legally required school documentation.

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Clinician-backed customizable response layer. Music-based calming prompts developed with a licensed occupational therapist, guided breathing, and configurable cues — set by each child's therapy team.

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Built with the community it serves. Every feature co-developed with educators, OTs, and SLPs. 12 schools and clinics with active purchase intent before commercial launch.

Revibe

Acquired by Pearson · Fidgeting & Attention

Comparison

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Accelerometer-based fidgeting detection. Alerts via haptic when fidgeting threshold is reached during scheduled activities.

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Single-signal input. No voice monitoring, no multi-biometric context, no communication-related awareness component.

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Parent-managed schedule. Focus is attention compliance, not communication or voice self-awareness.

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No documentation output. Does not generate IEP progress data or close the administrative loop for schools.

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Acquired by Pearson. Pearson is now actively seeking additional neurodivergent platform partnerships — including a current conversation with Sensory Bridges.

The Signal Revibe validated the market. Pearson's acquisition of Revibe — and their simultaneous interest in Sensory Bridges — confirms that enterprise players are actively building in this category. The question is not whether this market is real. It is which platform owns the voice awareness and documentation layer. That platform is Brooks Band.

The Partnership Fit

What each party brings. Why this works.

The fit is structural, not circumstantial. Samsung's freestanding mode is the only enterprise wearable architecture viable for school deployments at scale. Brooks Band is the only platform purpose-built for voice awareness and IEP documentation in the neurodivergent school population.

Sensory Bridges Brings

The IP, Community & Pipeline

Proprietary algorithm. Filed patent. Clinical relationships co-developed with OTs and SLPs. 12 schools and clinics with purchase intent. University research study with IRB approval. Documentation framework that closes the loop from biometric data to IEP funding. NDA executed with Samsung.

Samsung Brings

The Only Viable Infrastructure

Freestanding Mode — only Samsung offers fully autonomous watch deployment at school scale. Knox Manage — enterprise-grade IT control across unlimited devices from a single management point. Raw Health Sensor SDK — the only consumer wearable providing raw PPG, ECG, EDA, and accelerometer data for proprietary algorithm development.

Together

A First-of-Category Platform

The first purpose-built biometric awareness platform for neurodivergent learners that closes the loop from wearable data to legally required school documentation. A recurring hardware + subscription revenue model. A school pipeline ready to activate. And a growing market with mandated annual spending.

How Each Samsung Capability Maps to Brooks Band

Brooks Band Need

Children wear only a watch — no phone in school

Brooks Band Need

IT admin manages 25–100 watches per district remotely

Brooks Band Need

Proprietary algorithm built on population-specific raw biometric data

Brooks Band Need

LTE connectivity — no dependency on school Wi-Fi

Brooks Band Need

Device locked to single-purpose — no distractions for child

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Samsung Solution

Freestanding Mode — Samsung only. Watch operates fully independently after enrollment.

Samsung Solution

Knox Manage — one phone stages unlimited watches, remote IT control at enterprise scale.

Samsung Solution

Health Sensor SDK — raw PPG, ECG, EDA, accelerometer unavailable on any other consumer OEM.

Samsung Solution

Galaxy Watch 8 LTE model — autonomous data transmission without Wi-Fi dependency.

Samsung Solution

Knox Kiosk Mode — purpose-built lockdown, no social media, no browser, app always running.

Phase 2 — Next

Clinical Channel

OTs and SLPs in private practice. Session data supports billing documentation. Data governance transitions from FERPA to HIPAA for clinical deployments.

HIPAA Framework · Coming

Phase 3 — Long-Term

Research & Population Platform

Multi-site research studies. District-level analytics. Longitudinal outcome data across neurodivergent demographics. Population-level intelligence for policy and funding decisions.

Research Layer · Future

Measuring Success

Six metrics that prove this works — for schools, investors, and partners.

The right question is not just whether something changes — it is whether you can report it. These six metrics answer both.

Wear Tolerance Rate

Does the child accept wearing the device through the school day? The first gate — without it, nothing else matters.

Calibration Accuracy

Does the awareness cue fire at the right threshold for this individual child? Measured per user, per session.

Awareness Response Rate

Did the child adjust their voice after the cue? Educator-documented response rate — the primary IEP funding outcome metric.

Time-to-Awareness Trend

How quickly does the child respond? Recovery time trending shorter over weeks = the IEP annual review progress metric.

Event Frequency Trend

Are awareness events decreasing over a semester? This is the outcome story that satisfies investors and school district purchasing decisions.

Documentation Time Saved

Hours per week saved versus manual documentation — the district ROI metric that drives adoption at scale.