Sustenance
A quiet tool for home-educating families.
For parents home-educating neurodivergent children who need to demonstrate learning to authorities — without turning home into school.
Real learning, drop by drop
01What Sustenance is
Sustenance is a private application for home-educating families with neurodivergent children. It is one app that does two things, in two directions: it supports the parent’s responsibilities, and it gives the child a place of their own.
For the parent, it is a low-pressure learning log and compliance reporting tool. You capture moments of real-life learning as they happen — a conversation, a trip, a problem worked through — and Sustenance shapes those entries into review-ready reports for education authorities such as Tusla, without you retrofitting a year of evidence under stress in the week before review.
For the child, it is an interactive learning environment for life skills and self-chosen topics, designed with neurodivergent autonomy in mind. There are no streaks, no scores, no demand-loaded prompts. The two sides of the app stay connected and private to the family: what the child does can flow into the parent’s log when it is useful, and stay private to the child when it is not.
02Who Sustenance is for
Sustenance is for home-educating parents in review-based jurisdictions — Ireland, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand — where families are asked to demonstrate, on a regular cycle, that learning is taking place at home. It is built first for the Irish context and the Tusla assessment process, and applies cleanly to the others.
It is built with a particular fit for families of neurodivergent children: autistic, ADHD, PDA-profile, and gifted or twice-exceptional learners. These are the families for whom school often did not work, for whom learning rarely arrives on a schedule, and for whom reporting needs to honour what actually happens at home rather than ask the child to perform on demand.
If you keep a mental log of everything your child has read, questioned and figured out this month — and feel a small knot when review approaches — Sustenance is being built for you.
Be part of the early audience.
Sustenance is in active development. Subscribers hear from us as the app takes shape: a short letter every few weeks, when there is something worth saying.
Early subscribers get first access when it opens, and a real say in what gets built. This is not a marketing list. It is a small, occasional letter from the people making the thing.
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Frequently asked questions
- What is Sustenance?
- Sustenance is a private application for home-educating families with neurodivergent children. It combines a low-pressure learning log and reporting tool for parents with an interactive low-demand learning environment for children — no streaks, no scores, no demand-loaded prompts.
- Who is Sustenance for?
- Home-educating parents in review-based jurisdictions — Ireland, the UK, the EU, Australia and New Zealand — with a particular fit for families of autistic, ADHD, PDA-profile, and gifted/twice-exceptional children.
- Is Sustenance available now?
- Sustenance is in active development. Subscribers to the early audience list will hear about progress and get first access when it opens. Join the list above.