DP4 Is Live

Built by a parent who needed therapy to make it home.

DP4 helps families turn therapy goals, hard moments, routines, and real-life challenges into personalized social stories and visual supports that feel usable when life is actually happening.

Because parents should not have to leave a session with notes, goals, and a silent panic about how to make any of it work at bedtime, school drop-off, the grocery store, or the next big feeling.

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  • Built from lived experience
  • Made for parents and providers
  • Personalized to your child
DP4 personalized social story experience

Support that starts with your child.

Interests, communication style, sensory needs, goals, and real-life routines all help shape the story.

What is DP4?

Personalized therapy-to-home support

DP4 creates social stories and visual supports from your child’s real routines, goals, interests, and challenges. It is not just generic AI content. It is built around the moments your family is actually working through.

Who is it for?

Families, therapists, and care teams

DP4 is made for parents who want practical support at home, and for providers who want therapy goals to carry over more clearly between sessions.

Why now?

The hard moments happen outside therapy

The moments that need the most support often happen during transitions, morning routines, school nights, errands, sibling conflict, or sensory overload. DP4 helps support show up there.

Our Story

DP4 started where so many parent stories start: trying to do everything right and still feeling alone.

Founder Kim Pitsko built DP4 after navigating autism diagnosis, waitlists, therapy schedules, IEPs, insurance friction, work pressure, and the emotional weight of trying to carry the plan home.

The gap was not that people did not care. The gap was that the tools stopped too soon. Therapy goals lived in notes, PDFs, and parent memory, while real life kept moving.

DP4 was built to make that bridge easier: more personal than a worksheet, more practical than a long plan, and more supportive in the moments families are actually living through.

DP4 is for the parent in the car, at bedtime, at the kitchen table, in the waiting room, or mid-meltdown thinking: “I know what we’re working on. I just need help making it usable right now.”

Kim Pitsko, founder of DP4

Founder-led. Family-first.

DP4 was built by a mom who lived the space between therapy and daily life and believed families deserved better tools.

What DP4 helps families do

The goal is not more homework for parents. The goal is support that feels easier to create, easier to use, and easier to repeat.

Create

Stories for real moments

Turn transitions, big feelings, sibling conflict, routines, sensory challenges, or therapy goals into a story that fits your child’s world.

Practice

Reinforcement between sessions

Use stories and visual supports to keep skills fresh at home, at school, and in everyday routines without starting from scratch.

Understand

More clarity for parents

Get support that helps you see what your child is practicing, what is being reinforced, and how to respond with more confidence.

For parents

  • Less time translating therapy notes into home support.
  • Personalized stories that match your child’s needs, interests, and routines.
  • A more purposeful alternative to passive screen time.
  • Support that feels possible when your bandwidth is already low.

For ABA centers, schools, and care teams

  • Better carryover without piling more work onto families.
  • More consistent reinforcement of replacement behaviors and goals.
  • A parent-friendly way to extend support between appointments.
  • Built with provider workflows, white-label options, and integrations in mind.
Inside DP4

Support that looks like your child’s actual life

DP4 is visual, warm, and practical because families do not need another folder of things they meant to use. They need tools that fit the day they are already in.

DP4 weekly stories dashboard

Weekly story support

Fresh personalized stories help keep practice going without asking parents to invent everything themselves.

DP4 visual schedule support

Visual tools

Build supports for routines, communication, transitions, expectations, and what comes next.

DP4 insights experience

Parent insight

See what is being used and where support is starting to click, so you can reinforce with more confidence.

A few honest answers

Because parents and providers deserve clarity, not vague tech promises.

What is a social story?

A social story is a short, personalized narrative that walks a child through a situation before it happens: what will happen, what it may feel like, and what they can do. It is written in simple first-person language and paired with visuals, and it is used most often with autistic children to make new or hard moments predictable.

Do social stories work for autistic children?

Social narratives are recognized as an evidence-based practice for autistic learners and are widely used by BCBAs, speech-language pathologists, and special education teachers. They work best when the story is specific to the child and read before the moment rather than during it, which is exactly how DP4 is built to be used.

What are visual supports, and when do they help?

Visual supports are pictures, schedules, first-then boards, and choice boards that show a child what is happening and what comes next. They help most during transitions, morning and bedtime routines, new places, waiting, and any moment where spoken instructions are hard to process in real time.

How do you write a social story for an autistic child?

Write in the first person and the present tense, describe the situation before naming the behavior, keep sentences short and positive, and end with what the child can do. Use their name, their interests, and their real routine. DP4 builds a story that way in a few minutes.

What makes a personalized social story different from a printable one?

A printable is written for a generic child. A personalized story is written for yours. DP4 starts from your child’s name, interests, communication style, sensory needs, and the routine you are actually working on, so the language matches how they understand and the pictures match the life they recognize.

Can social stories help with transitions and meltdowns?

They help with transitions directly, and they help with meltdowns by lowering the odds of one rather than stopping it in progress. A story read before the haircut, the fire drill, the doctor visit, or the end of tablet time makes the moment predictable, and predictability is what most often prevents escalation.

What age is DP4 for?

DP4 is built for early childhood through school age, and stories are written to a child’s communication level rather than their birthday. If your child is learning routines, expectations, transitions, coping strategies, or self-advocacy, the stories can be written for where they are right now.

Does DP4 work for non-speaking children or emerging communicators?

Yes. Stories and visual supports are built for a range of communication styles, including children who are non-speaking, who use AAC, who are gestalt language processors, or who are early in expressive language. Visuals carry the meaning when words are still coming.

Is DP4 a replacement for ABA, speech, or occupational therapy?

No. DP4 supports the space between sessions. It helps therapy goals show up more clearly at home, at school, and in everyday routines, but it does not replace a BCBA, an SLP, an OT, or any part of a professional care team.

Can BCBAs, teachers, and ABA centers use DP4 with families?

Yes. Centers, schools, and care teams use DP4 to extend carryover between appointments, with invites for therapists and parents, white-label options, and provider workflows. Reach out and we will walk your team through it.

Is DP4 available now?

Yes. DP4 is live for families today. You create a profile for your child, describe the moment you want support for, and DP4 writes the personalized story and the visual supports that go with it.

Start with one story. See what changes.

Create support for a real moment your family is working through right now, in the language your child already understands.