About DP4

Meaningful tech that
bridges therapy and daily life.

DP4 exists to help children with autism and their families carry therapeutic support into the moments that actually matter most: home life, routines, transitions, school nights, hard mornings, and real-world emotional moments.

Our mission is simple: to create meaningful tech that bridges therapy and daily life for children with autism. We believe therapy should not stop when a session ends, and parents should not be left translating long PDFs, behavior plans, and provider notes into support on their own.

Built from lived experience
Designed for parents + providers
Partnered with top autism care tech providers
DP4 story experience on tablet
DP4 parent dashboard on laptop
DP4 story on phone
What is DP4?
Not just AI

DP4 is noot just an AI-powered platform, but a true behavioral engine that helps create personalized social stories and supportive tools aligned to a child’s real-life needs, interests, and goals.

Who is it for?
Parents + providers

DP4 is built for families, ABA providers, educators, and support teams who want therapy concepts to show up more clearly in everyday life.

Why does it matter?
Real life

The hardest moments do not happen in neat clinical settings. They happen at home, during routines, during transitions, after school, and in the middle of real family life.

How is it different?
Personalized

Instead of generic content, DP4 helps turn a child’s actual incidents, supports, interests, and therapeutic goals into practical, child-friendly reinforcement.

It started with a child in his mom’s office.

DP4 was not created from a brainstorm in a boardroom. It was created from the gap so many families know too well: what children learn in therapy often does not translate cleanly into life at home, at school, or in the middle of everyday stress.

Founder Kim Pitsko built DP4 after navigating autism diagnosis, waitlists, therapy logistics, school systems, insurance friction, work pressure, and the emotional weight of trying to do everything right while still feeling like the tools stopped where real life began.

The breakthrough came from a simple but powerful realization: therapy does not end when a session ends, but too often, the tools do. Parents are expected to remember plans, reread notes, write social stories by hand, and somehow turn all of that into calm, useful support in the middle of hard moments.

DP4 was built to make that process more possible — more personalized than a worksheet, more practical than a long PDF, and more supportive for the moments families are actually living through.

Kim Pitsko, founder of DP4

Founder spotlight

DP4 is deeply personal. It was built by a mother who lived the gap between therapy and daily life and decided families deserved better tools.

What DP4 does for families and providers

DP4 helps bridge therapy-to-home carryover with interactive, personalized supports that are easier to use in real time and easier to revisit over time.

For parents

Parents can turn real-life incidents, transitions, emotional moments, routines, and communication challenges into personalized supports instead of relying on memory, paper notes, or generic content.

For children

Children get support that is visual, warm, interactive, and more emotionally accessible — designed to help them understand what happened, what to expect, and what success can look like next time.

For providers

Providers can reduce parent burden, reinforce plans more consistently, and create a more connected experience between clinic guidance, school expectations, and life at home.

How support shows up inside DP4

DP4 is built to feel visual, usable, and relevant in the flow of daily life — not buried in a folder or locked inside a generic tool.

DP4 weekly stories experience

Stories that carry over

Weekly personalized story experiences help therapeutic ideas show up outside appointments and in daily life.

DP4 visual schedules tool

Support in more than one format

DP4 supports everyday life through social stories, visual schedules, and communication-focused tools.

DP4 communication cards

Built to be usable

The goal is not more material. It is better support that families and providers can actually use.

Benefits for parents

Less time translating therapy guidance into home support.
More confidence in how to respond during everyday hard moments.
Personalized social stories and supports that match a child’s actual needs and interests.
A more useful alternative to passive screen time.
Support that feels easier to use when time, energy, and bandwidth are limited.

Benefits for ABA centers, schools, and care teams

Better therapy-to-home reinforcement without pushing more homework onto families.
Lower friction between parent communication and therapeutic recommendations.
More consistent follow-through on plans, incidents, and replacement behaviors.
A scalable way to support carryover between appointments and environments.
White-labeled and integration-friendly thinking for provider workflows.
Partnerships

Built with ecosystem alignment in mind

DP4 is working toward a more connected therapy ecosystem, including partnership momentum with ReThink BH, a practice management platform used by ABA providers.

Approach

Designed to bridge the gap

We are focused on the space between sessions: the everyday moments where stress, routines, communication, and family life determine whether support actually sticks.

Privacy mindset

Built for sensitive family needs

Families and providers need support that feels private, respectful, and clinically thoughtful. DP4 is being built with that standard in mind from the start.

A product built for real use, not just a pitch deck

DP4 is designed around the kinds of support families and providers actually need: something warm, practical, responsive, and capable of showing up across different kinds of moments.

DP4 dashboard experience

Parent-facing experience

Designed to feel approachable for families, not cold or overwhelming.

DP4 phone story experience

Mobile-first support

Because most real-life hard moments do not happen at a desk.

DP4 fit check and insight tools

Growing with family needs

DP4 is being built to support understanding, reflection, and reinforcement over time.

DP4 in-the-moment support on phone

Support right when moments happen

DP4 helps parents respond in the moment with reminders of replacement behaviors and interactive story support tailored to their child, so hard moments can turn into practice instead of panic.

Frequently asked questions about DP4

These are the kinds of questions parents, providers, and partners often ask when they are evaluating a therapy-to-home support platform for autism.

What is DP4 for autism support?

DP4 is a platform that helps create personalized social stories and related supports for children with autism, with the goal of making therapy concepts easier to carry into daily life at home, at school, and across routines.

How does DP4 help parents of children with autism?

DP4 helps parents by turning behavioral incidents, routines, emotional moments, and therapeutic goals into supports that are easier to use in real time. Instead of starting from scratch, parents get more practical reinforcement they can actually use.

How does DP4 help ABA providers and schools?

DP4 helps providers reinforce carryover beyond the session. It can reduce the burden on parents, support more consistent follow-through, and improve how therapeutic recommendations show up in everyday family life.

Why are social stories important for autism support?

Social stories can help children process what happened, prepare for what is next, and understand expectations in a more concrete and visual way. The challenge is that most families do not have the time to keep writing personalized stories by hand. DP4 is built to make that easier.

Is DP4 meant to replace therapy?

No. DP4 is meant to support the space between sessions by helping therapy concepts show up more clearly in daily life. It is designed to reinforce care, not replace professional services.

Who should partner with DP4?

DP4 can be relevant for ABA centers, schools, autism support organizations, pediatric care networks, and partners interested in improving therapy-to-home engagement and family support.

We’re building for the moments that matter.

Whether you are a parent looking for better support, an ABA provider exploring carryover tools, or a partner interested in helping bridge therapy and daily life, we’d love to connect.