Every speech sound, with practice words
One page for each of the 30 sounds the app teaches. Each page has a recorded clip of the sound, plain-English instructions for what the tongue and lips do, the age most children get there, the mistakes that are completely normal on the way, and hundreds of practice words grouped from easiest to hardest.
All free, and you do not need the app to use them. If your therapist has given you a sound to work on, start with that one.
Consonant sounds
The sounds most speech practice is about. They are listed by the age children typically master them, so the earliest ones come first.
Vowel sounds
Short vowels are usually in place long before consonants. If these sound off, it is worth mentioning to a professional rather than drilling at home.
Letter sounds
C, Q and X are letters rather than sounds of their own — each one borrows from sounds you have already met. Useful for reading practice as well as speech.
Which sound should we work on?
If a speech-language pathologist has named a sound, use that one — they picked it for a reason. If you are choosing yourself, three rules keep you out of trouble:
- Go by age, not by how wrong it sounds. A four-year-old saying “wabbit” is on schedule; the R sound is not typically mastered until five to eight. Working on a sound your child is developmentally not ready for is frustrating for both of you.
- Pick the sound that costs them the most. If one sound is the reason people cannot understand your child, start there, even if it is not the “next” one.
- One sound at a time. Two sounds at once halves the practice each gets and confuses a young child.
Age ranges follow the Iowa–Nebraska articulation norms (Smit, Hand, Bird & Bernthal), the same norms the app uses to suggest sounds by age.