Company Profile

Talking Fingers Inc
Profile last edited on: 8/8/16      CAGE: 4BPA4      UEI: ZAZXVNRGTEG1

Business Identifier: Phonics-to-Fluency Software for Hands-on Reading and Spelling
Year Founded
1994
First Award
1999
Latest Award
2015
Program Status
Inactive
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Location Information

830 Rincon Way
San Rafael, CA 94901
   (415) 472-3103
   contact@talkingfingers.com
   www.readwritetype.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 02
County: Marin

Public Profile

Talking Fingers, Inc. is a subsidiary of California Neuropsychology Services (CNS), a non-profit organization for research and education founded in 1982 by neuropsychologist Dr. Jeannine Herron,. CNS has conducted numerous research projects in schools throughout California, funded by organizations such as the W.S. Johnson Foundation, the Hearst Foundation, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In 1994, CNS set up a for-profit subsidiary, Talking Fingers, Inc., and other educational materials for teaching phonics, writing, keyboarding and word processing to young children. The company's name is taken from the Apple IIe software first developed by Dr. Jeannine Herron, that was the foundation of Read, Write & Type!™. Over the next 5 years, Talking Fingers (CNS) tested the first version of its Read, Write & Type!™ software program with children in numerous California schools and incorporated its findings into the final version of the product. That version was released for both Macintosh and Windows platforms in 1994, under a publishing and distribution arrangement with The Learning Company, a major publisher of educational software for the home and school markets. In 1997, Read, Write & Type!™ ranked #6 in school sales out of more than 100 of Learning Company products. Read, Write & Type!™ is currently being used in over 200 school districts by more than 10,000 children

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
1-4
Revenue Range
Less than .5M
VC funded?
No
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
N/A

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2015 2 NIH $1,146,652
Project Title: Deep Letter Knowledge for Emerging Literacy Using Ipads
2005 1 NIH $99,983
Project Title: Interactive Pre-School Toy for Early Reading Skill
2005 2 NIH $849,997
Project Title: Software to Teach Foundations of Reading/Writing Fluency
2003 2 NIH $838,774
Project Title: Software to Monitor Growth of K-1 Reading Skills
2000 2 NIH $798,668
Project Title: Innovative Software To Boost Reading Skills

Key People / Management

  Jeannine H Herron -- President

  Kris Keubler

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