PRC-Saltillo, an employee-owned company in Wooster, Ohio, that makes devices and apps for people who cannot rely on speech, has acquired Ner Chat, the New York startup behind Glint. The deal was announced on October 22, 2026.
Terms were not disclosed.
Glint will keep its brand. The first joint project is to bring PRC-Saltillo's Minspeak symbols into Glint, and a beta version will be shown at the Closing The Gap conference, with general availability to follow. No release date has been set.
Augmentative and alternative communication, or AAC, covers devices, apps and symbol systems used by people who have limited or no speech. Glint's materials are aimed at the teachers and therapists who support those users in schools.
What Ner Chat built
Dylan Makani, co-founder and chief executive, and Scott Soifer founded Ner Chat in 2024 to make assistive technology easier to bring into schools.
Glint generates visual supports from text prompts. A teacher or therapist types what they need and the tool produces communication boards, visual schedules, social narratives, choice-making resources and classroom activity boards. PRC-Saltillo said this cuts preparation time from hours to seconds. Materials can be shared by QR code in more than 50 languages.
The company said Glint supports tens of thousands of educators across hundreds of school districts. PRC-Saltillo described it as a tool that works alongside augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices and apps rather than replacing them.
"We built Glint to help educators and therapists turn their ideas into visuals without spending hours preparing materials," Makani said in the announcement.
“We want to make it easier to create useful materials with the symbols a child already knows and spend more time supporting communication.”
Why PRC-Saltillo is buying
PRC-Saltillo was founded in 1966 and is 100% employee-owned. It marks its 60th anniversary in 2026 and has subsidiaries in the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, Singapore and India. It develops speech-generating devices, communication apps and vocabulary systems.
Its Minspeak symbols are used in the LAMP Words for Life and Unity vocabularies and on its Minspeak-based devices, including Genesis, NovaChat, Accent and Via. Children who use those devices learn to communicate with a particular set of symbols. Putting the same symbols into Glint means teachers can make printed boards, schedules and backup materials that match what a child already uses on their device. PRC-Saltillo said the symbols in Glint are meant for supporting materials and low-tech backup AAC, not full device vocabularies.
"We want to make it easier to create useful materials with the symbols a child already knows and spend more time supporting communication," PRC-Saltillo chief executive Sarah Wilds said. She said the company's history is built on relationships with people who use AAC and the families, educators and clinicians who support them.
"Those teams tell us what they need," Wilds said of the educators and clinicians PRC-Saltillo works with. Pulse 2.0 reported that the company develops speech-generating devices, communication apps and vocabulary systems sold through its international subsidiaries.
What happens to users
Once released, the Minspeak symbols will be available to anyone with a Glint account, according to PRC-Saltillo. The company did not say whether Glint's pricing would change.
Makani said working with PRC-Saltillo brings deep AAC experience to the goal of saving educators time. In a blog post on PRC-Saltillo's site he said the team built Glint to give that time back.
AI in special education
PRC-Saltillo's pitch for Glint is time. Its announcement said the tool cuts preparation of visual supports from hours to seconds, and the Minspeak integration is meant to connect that speed to the symbol systems children already use on its devices.
Ner Chat's funding was not disclosed in any source. For a startup founded only two years ago, the sale puts its tool in the hands of a company whose devices are already used in schools and clinics in several countries.
