Solving bilingual deficiencies in children through training
EGGi solves bilingual deficiencies in adolescents through a physical device by not only teaching them vocabulary but also TRAINING them to compartmentalize languages in order to better recall during developmental years.
Our product is differentiated by a means of a physical device. We bridge the gap of showing kids the screen while still having interactive means to play with. We use physical buttons and RFID chips to create a meaningful connection between the device and the child. Additionally, we leverage backend infrastructure to generate voice signatures that are most meaningful to the children - their parents.
1 in 5 children are born into a bilingual household in the United States. That means approximately 700,000 children are born each year into an environment and system where we ask them to learn double the vocabulary and double the amount of language rules. Worldwide, an estimated 30-40% of the global population grows up speaking multiple languages.
Although adults are able to compartmentalize these languages (”Hello” belongs to English language, “Hola” to Spanish, “Anyung” to Korean, etc), children have yet to develop the intellectual capacity to understand the nativity and circumstances behind learning these words. We ask these bilingual children to be intellectually developed in order to be lingusitically compatible to their outside environment. This happens in normal speech - a Spanish-at-home child who learns English in school may mix up words “one, two, three, cuatro, cinco, seis, seven, eight. Although the intention is correct, the languages are mixed. In multilinguistics, this is often referred to as code-mixing. Children who are exposed to multiple languages from an early age can be misdiagnosed with confusion based on their inability to coherently string full sentences without code mixing.
Eggy aims to solve that by not only teaching languages, but instead training children how to compartmentalize the words.
Eggi is a early-education (6 months to 6yo), physical device that helps bilingual kids separate and compartmentalize multiple languages while they grow up. It simultaneously teaches kids words through a stand alone device (non-smartphone/tablet) that utilizes a screen and three buttons as its primary interface. By pairing it with an application smartphone or app, we are able to utilize AI in the form of generative voice signatures for children. We can utilize the parent’s voice in order to teach young kids multiple languages, bridging the gap between immigrant children and majority-language speaking monolinguistic families. Ultimately, we believe that targeting early language separation training in children will allow them to become more proficient at both languages, maximizing their early school years while realizing the benefits of maintaining bilingual proficiency in their early/mid-adult years.