My relationship with Big Lemon began in 2019 at the annual NHS Hack Day where they turned my vision of using tech to support children with language and learning needs into a reality. As a Speech and Language Therapist, my passion is that service-users in particular the patients drive all aspects of my NHS-funded school-based research. Big Lemon fully share this approach and this has enabled us to work collaboratively, productively and in ways that are truly innovative. Big Lemon have gone above and beyond during the uncertainty of COVID19 to ensure that co-design plans could be responsive and flexible to the changing climate in particular through remote working. This has allowed us to not only continue with the project but act as models of inclusive practice to other clinical researchers.

What we wanted to do was no small feat. Typical of FABRIC, our idea was unique but the team at Big Lemon have walked alongside us each step of the way, embracing our ideas, translating our language into their language and supporting us to develop our understanding of tech.