
Steve Keightley
Parent and tech developer who created Ask Gentle, an AI tool to help parents of children with PDA communicate using declarative language.
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Jun 15, 2026
Declarative language made easy
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5:58RachelHOST
So can you take us back then to the moment when you realised that language itself was one of the main barriers for you and your daughter and how you found that declarative language could be part of that solution?

Steve KeightleyGUEST
Um, so I'm just gonna reference the book name actually, which I have put on the website, cuz this is where we all started.

Steve KeightleyGUEST
The, uh, declarative language handbook, um, was a book that we, by Linda Murphy, um, a book that I think we bought fairly early on.

Steve KeightleyGUEST
And to start with, I was, is, is skeptical the right word? I guess I was, um, I, I couldn't see how something as simple, you know, the, the examples it gave seemed so simple.
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13:02RachelHOST
So what rule or principle guided your decision making process, if you like, when you were building it?