Legislative Brief - One Page Overview
September 7, 2025
Elk Grove founders and parents building assistive AI for special‑needs families. Winners (2nd Place) at TED AI 2024 SF Hackathon for AI4Echolalia™; recognized by Meta for open‑source Llama use in IEP CoPilot. Mission aligned with UN SDGs 3 (Health), 4 (Quality Education), 10 (Reduced Inequalities).
Families face months‑long waitlists for speech‑language therapy; educators face heavy IEP documentation burdens. Parents and clinicians need safe, reliable support between scarce therapy sessions.
• AI4Echolalia™ — real‑time parent coaching to encourage spontaneous speech; designed for parent/clinician mediation; no anthropomorphic persona; session‑based memory.
• IEP CoPilot — generates structured IEP drafts from meeting transcripts for educators and families; FERPA‑style controls; audit logs.
Parent/clinician in the loop • explicit parental consent • data minimization & retention limits • no biometrics • no unsupervised mental‑health claims • de‑identified/aggregated analytics only • export & deletion on request.
As drafted, AB 1064 (LEAD for Kids) risks sweeping in parent/clinician‑mediated assistive tools and chilling open‑source innovation.
1) Parent/Clinician‑Mediated Carve‑out (assistive tools that coach parents/educators are not "companion chatbots").
2) Open‑Source Safe Harbor (upstream model providers/non‑deploying inventors aren't strictly liable for downstream misuse).
3) De‑identified Data Allowance (permit de‑identified/aggregated minors' data with strong safeguards to improve assistive tools).
4) Precise Definitions (exclude tools that don't simulate friendship/romance or provide unsupervised mental‑health therapy to minors).
TED AI Hackathon (Team 2nd Place): https://tedai-sanfrancisco.ted.com/hackathon/
Meta feature (Education – DLYog Lab): https://about.fb.com/news/2024/12/open-source-ai-is-leading-to-breakthroughs-in-healthcare-education-and-entrepreneurship/
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Mousumi and Tarun Chawdhury
On Behalf of DLYog Lab Research Services LLC
Founders
Elk Grove, California