It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention. Six years ago, the team responsible to supervise and implement my three years old son's home ABA therapy program fell into an impasse. He became unresponsive to table drills and after four months of relentless attempts at verbal imitation he would not repeat a simple sound such as "ah". On the other hand he was very intrigued about his dad's computer and would often come and watch over my shoulders, as I would be busy developing software applications. The inspiration came to turn the fascination he manifested toward this medium into a motivator in his learning process. The result is the software you are about to explore. First, pulling on his strength for visual drills, a matching game was developed. Within a week he mastered the handling of the mouse. He was hooked. As his mastery of the material grew, more drills were added to the program: receptive labeling, verbal imitation, expressive labeling, spelling, sight words, and sentence reading. The rest is history. In the past few years CompuThera matured greatly, including movie clips illustrations of action verbs, and exclusive compositions from Songspring Productions as musical rewards.

It became a tool appreciated in renowned learning institutions such as The Forbush Therapeutic School for Children with Autism in Baltimore. As Steven Grigsby, president of Songspring puts it: