Master Articulation.
Make Learning Fun.

Designed for Speech-Language Pathologists and Parents. Articulate Plus combines evidence-based therapy tools with engaging games, comprehensive progress tracking, and massive customization to help every child succeed.

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Articulate Plus Home Screen featuring colorful characters

One App. Four Powerful Ways to Play.

Whether you are an SLP managing group therapy or a parent practicing at home, Articulate Plus provides a comprehensive toolkit to keep kids engaged and making progress.

Articulate Plus Activity Selection Menu

FlashCards

High-repetition practice at the word, phrase, and sentence levels. Featuring real-life photos, audio playback, and built-in video modeling for every target.

Matching

Combine articulation practice with cognitive skills! Boost working memory as children flip cards to find pairs in a fun, multiplayer environment.

Stories

Bridge the gap between single words and spontaneous speech. Practice sound generalization and reading comprehension using sound-loaded short stories.

Guess What

Target expressive language and articulation simultaneously. Students listen to contextual clues to guess the target word before practicing the sound.

Activity Spotlight: Flashcards

Grow With Every Session

As one of our four core activities, Flashcards are designed to seamlessly scale with your child's abilities. Transition the difficulty level from single words to complete sentences with a single tap, without ever leaving the game.

1

Word Level

Start with the basics. Isolate the target sound alongside crisp, recognizable real-world photography.

Flashcards practicing at the Word Level
2

Phrase Level

Bridge the gap. Combine the target word with simple, functional vocabulary to increase cognitive load.

Flashcards practicing at the Phrase Level
3

Sentence Level

Achieve generalization. Master the target sound by practicing it within complete grammatical sentences.

Flashcards practicing at the Sentence Level
Smart Target Selection

Take the Guesswork Out of Practice

Not sure which sounds your child should be working on? Articulate Plus intelligently organizes target phonemes by developmental milestones, making it easy for parents and educators to choose age-appropriate goals.

  • Early Sounds (Ages 2-3)

    Start here for toddlers and early talkers. Features foundational sounds like /p/, /m/, /h/, and /w/.

  • Middle Sounds (Ages 4-5)

    Progress to intermediate articulation targets such as /t/, /k/, /g/, and /f/ as your child's speech matures.

  • Late Sounds (Ages 6+)

    Tackle the most complex speech sounds, including /s/, /r/, /l/, and /th/, perfect for school-aged children.

Articulate Plus Phoneme Selection by Developmental Age
For the Professionals

Clinical-Grade Precision

Go beyond basic phonemes. Articulate Plus provides Speech-Language Pathologists with the advanced filtering tools necessary to build highly specific, evidence-based treatment plans.

Articulate Plus Menu for Target Selection Methods
Targeting Phonological Processes

Phonological Processes

Easily target rule-based speech errors. Filter word lists by specific processes including Fronting, Backing, Stopping, Gliding, and Cluster Reduction.

Targeting Manner of Articulation

Manner of Articulation

Group sounds based on how they are produced in the mouth. Build sessions focusing exclusively on Affricates, Fricatives, Plosives, Glides, Liquids, or Nasals.

Targeting Number of Syllables

Syllable Control

Carefully manage task difficulty and cognitive load by restricting target words to specific syllable counts, from simple CVC words up to 4+ syllables.

Activity Spotlight: Matching Game

Memory Meets Articulation

Blend cognitive tasks with high-repetition speech practice. The Matching Game challenges a child's working memory while keeping them completely focused on producing their target sounds every time they flip a card.

Articulate Plus Matching Game - Flipping a card

Dual-Goal Therapy

Target working memory and articulation simultaneously. Children practice their target words repeatedly while building strong vocabulary skills.

Matching game showing complex vocabulary targets

Group Therapy Ready

Easily add multiple players to a single game. Students can take turns finding matches while you track their individual data with precision.

Multiplayer matching game with custom themes

Instant Reinforcement

Keep kids motivated and engaged! Visual rewards and exciting animations trigger automatically every time a student successfully finds a match.

Matching game displaying star reward animation
Activity Spotlight: Guess What

Target Language and Speech Together

Why work on just one skill when you can target two? "Guess What" challenges auditory comprehension and expressive language while seamlessly integrating articulation practice.

  • Auditory Processing

    The app reads descriptive clues aloud (e.g., "What do people wear before going to sleep?"), requiring the child to process the information and deduce the answer.

  • Vocabulary Building

    Children must recall and express the correct vocabulary word based on the context before practicing their target sound.

  • Immersive Themes

    Keep sessions fresh! The "Guess What" game features over a dozen fully interactive themes, from deep sea diving to superhero cities.

Guess What Game - Question Prompt
Flip to Reveal
Guess What Game - Revealed Answer
Endless Engagement

Immersive, Fully Themed Environments

Keep your therapy sessions fresh all year long. The "Guess What" game features over a dozen stunning themes—like this beautiful Autumn Harvest. Every theme completely transforms the interface, featuring custom interactive menus, unique scoring buttons, and special character outfits to maximize student motivation.

Endless Visual Variety

A Theme for Every Child

Engagement is the key to successful therapy. With a single tap in the settings menu, you can completely transform the app's interface—from the backgrounds and scoring buttons to the characters and avatars—to match a student's current interests or the holiday season.

Articulate Plus Theme Selection Menu
Evidence-Based Practice

Real Actors. Real Video Modeling.

Articulate Plus features built-in video modeling for every single target word in the app. A diverse cast of real human actors demonstrates exact mouth and tongue placements to help children see, hear, and successfully mimic the correct production.

Video Modeling featuring an adult woman actor
Video Modeling featuring a teen actor
Video Modeling featuring an older woman actor
Video Modeling featuring an adult man actor in holiday theme
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Mirrored Learning

For many children, hearing a sound isn't enough. Video modeling provides crucial visual feedback, allowing kids to mirror precise tongue, lip, and jaw placement to master sounds faster.

2

Reduced Frustration

By taking the guesswork out of how a word is produced, video models give children the immediate visual support and confidence they need to attempt difficult target words without shutting down.

3

Diverse Representation

Our expansive library features children, teens, and adults. Exposing students to a wide variety of speakers helps them generalize the skill and apply it to their everyday conversations.

Activity Spotlight: Stories

Bridge the Gap to Spontaneous Speech

Mastering a sound in isolation is just the beginning. The "Stories" activity provides the crucial next step, challenging students to accurately produce their target sounds while navigating full sentences, narratives, and reading comprehension tasks.

Context is Everything

Every story in Articulate Plus is uniquely crafted and heavily "sound-loaded." This means the narrative is intentionally packed with the child's specific target phoneme.

To provide immediate visual reinforcement, every target word is highlighted in bold red text, ensuring the child knows exactly when their sound is coming up. Full beautiful illustrations keep the child engaged with the narrative.

Sound-loaded story featuring a Pirate theme

Adaptable for Older Readers

Visuals are great for younger kids, but older students often need a cleaner, more focused interface.

With a single tap on the "Text Mode" button, SLPs and parents can instantly remove the illustrations. This minimizes visual distractions, increases the font size, and forces the student to rely entirely on their reading decoding and articulation skills.

Story in Text-Only Mode
Story in Illustrated Mode
Story featuring therapy room theme and comprehension questions

Reading Comprehension

Speech therapy shouldn't exist in a vacuum. Built-in, numbered story questions ensure the student is actually comprehending the text while they practice their sounds.

Story featuring a traffic cop and sheep

High-Density Targets

Notice the sea of red text! Our stories guarantee maximum repetitions per session. By densely packing the targets, children get more practice in less time.

Story featuring a zookeeper and hippo

Self-Monitoring Tools

Students can use the "Play Story" button to hear a fluent model, then use the "Record" and "Play Rec" buttons to listen to their own voice and self-correct their errors.

Articulate Plus App Icon Evidence-Based Practice

Rooted in Clinical Research

Articulate Plus isn't just designed to be fun—it is engineered to be effective. Every feature within the app is built upon the foundational principles of motor learning and evidence-based speech-language pathology.

Principles of Motor Learning

Research indicates that high-density trial repetitions are essential for neuroplasticity and the habituation of new motor patterns. Our Flashcard and Matching activities are optimized for rapid, high-volume practice, ensuring maximum target productions per minute.

Visual-Motor Modeling

Studies show that auditory input alone is often insufficient for correcting speech errors. Articulate Plus utilizes Video Modeling for every target word, engaging the mirror neuron system by allowing children to visually map the exact articulatory placements of real human actors.

Self-Monitoring & Auditory Discrimination

Developing self-awareness is a critical milestone for generalization. The app's built-in recording and playback features allow students to compare their own vocal productions against a fluent model, strengthening their auditory discrimination skills.

Systematic Complexity Hierarchy

Following established treatment protocols, the app allows clinicians to move systematically from isolation, to single words, to phrases, to reading paragraphs (Stories). This controls cognitive load and gradually increases the difficulty until the sound is generalized.

Data & Reporting

Automate Your Data Collection

Say goodbye to paper tallies and disorganized notes. Articulate Plus automatically tracks every tap, swipe, and spoken word, generating comprehensive, exportable reports perfect for IEP meetings, clinical documentation, or parent updates.

Manage Entire Caseloads

Whether you are a parent with two kids or an SLP with sixty students, organization is effortless. Create unlimited, individualized player profiles for everyone you work with.

Customize each profile with unique avatars and save their specific settings so they can pick up exactly where they left off in their last session.

  • Unlimited player profiles
  • Customizable avatars and names
  • Group therapy ready (select up to 6 players per session)
Articulate Plus Caseload Management and Player Profiles

Comprehensive Progress Dashboards

Get a bird's-eye view of a student's entire journey. The main dashboard breaks down their accuracy across all four activities, ensuring you know exactly which therapy methods are yielding the best results.

The built-in Developmental Milestones Tracker visually maps out which sounds the child has mastered, which ones they are currently practicing, and which ones remain untested.

  • Timeline view of all past sessions
  • Accuracy breakdown by activity type
  • Color-coded developmental milestone tracking
Comprehensive student data dashboard showing milestones and accuracy

Drill Down to the Granular Details

Need to know exactly where a breakdown in speech occurred? Click into any past session to view incredibly detailed micro-data. Articulate Plus tracks accuracy not just by the sound, but by the complexity level and word position.

Granular session data showing accuracy for specific phonemes
Detailed data tracking separating word, phrase, and sentence level accuracy
For Parents & Caregivers

Bring Speech Therapy Home

Articulate Plus bridges the gap between the clinic and the living room. You don't need a degree in speech pathology to help your child succeed—our app makes daily practice simple, structured, and most importantly, fun.

  • Positive Reinforcement

    Celebrate their hard work! With a single tap, you can generate and print beautiful achievement certificates to reward your child's milestones.

  • Practice Feels Like Playtime

    Say goodbye to boring flashcards. With our engaging matching games, story modes, and massive variety of themes, kids actually want to practice.

  • Seamless Homework Integration

    If your child is working with an SLP, the built-in Homework tracking lets you easily share their at-home practice data directly with their therapist.

Articulate Plus generating an achievement certificate for a child
Video Walkthrough

See Articulate Plus in Action

Take a guided tour through the ultimate speech therapy app. In this comprehensive tutorial, we cover everything from setting up student profiles and tracking data to exploring the incredible games, stories, and immersive themes.

Ultimate Personalization

Add Your Own Target Words

While Articulate Plus comes pre-loaded with thousands of high-quality targets, we know that the most motivating words are the ones closest to a child's heart. The custom word creator lets you bring their world directly into the app.

  • Make It Deeply Personal

    Easily upload your own photos and create custom text. Whether it is a family member like Alice, a favorite pet, or a beloved toy, you can build targets that instantly capture a child's attention.

  • Record Custom Audio

    Provide a familiar auditory model. You can record your own voice saying the word, a custom phrase, and a full sentence directly into the app.

  • Maintain Clinical Precision

    Your custom words are fully integrated into the app's powerful filtering system. Categorize your new targets by sound, word position, and syllable count so they appear naturally during therapy and track accurately in your data.

Articulate Plus Edit Custom Word Screen

Ready to Transform Your Therapy Sessions?

Whether you are an SLP managing a massive caseload or a parent looking to support your child at home, Articulate Plus is the ultimate toolkit for speech success.

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