About Smart Me

At Smart Me, we believe that learning has NO boundaries. Every day we have the amazing opportunity to prove that children today can succeed tomorrow! Smart Me supports a learning method that ensures that with continuous practice and review, every child, regardless of their circumstances, can progress at their own pace to succeed and reach their full potential.

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A Few Words About Us

Founded by its owner and Chief Advocate Officer, Melanie Smith-Simon, after her daughter, Melia, was born with Down syndrome, Smart Me™ is a pioneering company that provides effective learning resources, tools, and programs designed to cater to the foundational learning needs of children, most especially children with unique learning challenges. At Smart Me, we understand that traditional educational environments can sometimes fail to meet the diverse learning needs of all children in the classroom setting. As such, we aim to fill this gap by offering accessible and innovative resources that support continuous learning outside of the classroom setting, fostering an environment where every child can succeed in reaching their full potential.

Our Core Values & Beliefs

Every Child Has The Capacity To Learn

Every child can learn and acquire knowledge and skills. Although every child's learning experience is different, all children can learn, make progress, and succeed. Given the right support, opportunities, and resources, all children can learn, grow, and thrive to reach their fullest potential.

Learning Has No Boundaries

Learning is not limited to the classroom. Learning is not limited to a person's abilities and circumstances. Learning is continuous and lifelong, and should be accessible and available to every child. Learning has no limits, and the starting point is HOME.

Empowering Children Through Continuous Learning

Continuous learning helps develop a lifelong learning mindset and a broader knowledge base that builds confidence and self-esteem in children. The earlier the better. There is a vastly growing community of parents who prioritize learning at home and who understand the tremendous benefit of helping their children reach their full potential outside of the classroom setting.

Our Mission

To break down the barriers that hinder the learning experiences of children, including those with special learning needs, like Down syndrome, and to empower them by providing innovative, accessible, and effective educational resources that can be used outside of the classroom setting, ensuring that learning has no boundaries.

Our Vision

Our vision is a world where every child, regardless of their abilities, has the opportunity to reach their full potential through continuous learning.
We aim to be the leading provider of educational resources for children, including those with special learning needs, like Down syndrome, and recognized for our commitment to inclusivity, innovation, and excellence.
We believe our contribution to the world will have a huge impact on how all children learn and ultimately succeed.

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The History Behind Our Mission

2002

Smart Me Was Created

Founded with a mission to help her daughter with Down syndrome, as well as other children with special learning challenges, prepare for school, Melanie Smith-Simon created Pre-K and Kindergarten level workbooks, corresponding videos, a variety of flashcards, and other early learning materials for early skill building, visual and auditory learning, and motor skills practice.

2010

Debut of 1st-5th Grade Workbooks

Seeing the great need for children in general, but especially children with learning challenges, to practice and reinforce foundational skills in math and reading over the summer months, Smart Me introduced 1st through 5th grade level math and reading/language arts workbooks, designed to help build the strong foundational skills needed for growth and success in learning.

2020

The Smart Me Plush Doll Collection

Adding to the product line to make early learning more fun and engaging, as well as to provide a comfort toy, Smart Me designed and directed development of the Smart Me Learning Buddies plush doll collection. Each doll is designed with a name, a story, and early learning aspects to their clothing.

2023 - Today

Digital Learning, App Development, Continuous Learning & Future Growth

Post COVID-19, Smart Me became more focused-forward in helping and encouraging children, especially children with special learning needs, like Down syndrome, to solidify foundational skills in learning.
Fun and engaging digital learning tools were created, our first learning app went into development, Continuous Learning became our mantra, and the vision for the future growth of Smart Me is crystal clear!
From bridging learning over the summer at home to supplementing home-school curriculums to therapeutic aids used during therapy to reinforcement tools used by tutors to use by home daycare providers to teach early learning concepts to community resources for summer camps, Smart Me aims to be the leading provider of learning resources to help children learn, grow, and thrive to reach their full potential.