The waitlist is brutal
Families wait 6+ months for a pediatric speech and language therapist — while the most important window for early language starts to close.
Help your child learn how to speak
Speech-therapist designed games and real life tips for late talkers - try at home tonight, while you wait for therapy
- Free lesson
- 2-min plan
- No signup
Built by Nina, a UK-registered speech therapist.Helping thousands of families find their words at home.
Professional credentials you can trust
HCPC registered
RCSLT registered
NHS-trained
Hundreds of children helped
Why it feels so hard
Every day matters in helping your child communicate their wants and needs
The frustration is real
Children who cannot communicate what they want get easily overwhelmed — and so do you. Speech Barn teaches simple functional vocabulary to help reduce the frustration.
Nobody tells you what to do
Even after initial assessment, most parents go home with vague advice and no daily plan to actually build their child’s language skills.
You don't have to wait — or guess. You can start helping tonight.
Why SpeechBarn exists
The speech app Nina wished she'd had as a child.
Nina is a UK registered speech and language therapist — and the founder who built every game in SpeechBarn. She had speech therapy herself growing up. She trained in the NHS, spent years helping hundreds of children find their words, and watched families wait up to 12 months for therapy while their kids struggled.
She couldn't keep sending parents home with nothing to do in the meantime. So she turned her clinic methods into an app for everyone. Functional words that teach real communication skills and simple parent tips based on research-backed speech therapy methods - all this as part of a barnyard game that you can open tonight, not next year.
“I know what it's like to need that support — and I built SpeechBarn so your family doesn't have to wait months to start.”
- HCPC registered
- RCSLT registered
- NHS-trained
- Hundreds of children helped
A calmer way to help at home
At-home speech therapy practice that meets your child where they are
Start with the right words
A few quick questions build a plan around your child’s level — from early language to sentence level
Practice that feels like play
Your child plays the games specifically designed to teach functional vocabulary and reduce frustration.
Try our home strategies
Keep practicing the words they learnt in real life situations with tips from a Speech and Language Therapist.
The path ahead
Watch your child grow into a confident talker
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Early communication
Pointing, gestures and early sounds become intentional ways to connect.
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First words
Power words that unlock daily life: “more”, “all done”, “go”.
- 3
Put words together
Joining words into little phrases — “more bubbles”, “big cow”.
- 4
Little sentences
Longer phrases to ask, comment and share — “I want more juice”.
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A confident communicator
Using words on their own to say what they want and need — without the frustration and guessing.
It feels like play. It's really practice.
Every game is built on how kids actually learn to talk — taking turns, asking for “more”, and celebrating “all done”. Start free by feeding Pip the piglet and blowing bubbles, then grow into longer, clearer speech, one happy win at a time.
A bridge to therapy — never a replacement.
SpeechBarn doesn't diagnose or replace a speech-language pathologist. It gives your family a kind, structured way to practice while you wait for therapy, or to keep momentum between sessions — whether your child is a late talker, hard to understand, or working through apraxia or autism-related speech delays.
Get a plan in 2 minutes
A speech plan built around your child
Tell us a little about how your child talks today, and we'll shape a practical at-home practice path around the exact sounds and words they're working on.
Build my child's plan- 1Tell us about your child's speech
- 2Get a personalized practice path
- 3Practice together in short sessions
Did you know?
Children make significantly bigger gains in talking when a parent practises with them.
Roberts & Kaiser, meta-analysis of parent-implemented language intervention — American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2011
That's the whole idea behind SpeechBarn. It doesn't hand your child to a screen — it puts the right words in your hands and shows you exactly what to do, five minutes at a time.
Why it works
Built on how kids really learn to talk
Based on the same evidence-informed, sound-by-sound sequence speech therapists use in clinic
Real speech sounds
Letters are spoken as true sounds (“buh”, “ah”, “mmm”) — the way SLPs teach kids to produce them, not just letter names.
Built by a real therapist
Nina designed every level around the same sound-by-sound sequence she uses in her clinic — so you reinforce the right things in the right order.
Made for little attention spans
Short, joyful sessions fit real family life — so practice actually happens, day after day, without the battle.
Built around how families really practice
At the kitchen table, between therapy visits, or while waiting for help — SpeechBarn keeps speech practice kind, structured, and realistic, so progress keeps happening at home.
20,000+practice plans built for parents who refused to just sit on the waitlist.
Questions parents ask
Speech practice at home, answered
Can I do speech therapy at home with my toddler?
Yes — short, playful practice at home is one of the best ways to support a toddler’s speech, especially while you wait for a therapist. SpeechBarn turns therapist-designed exercises into 5-minute barnyard games, so you reinforce the right sounds in the right order. It complements professional speech therapy rather than replacing it.
How do I help a late talker start talking?
Late talkers need lots of playful, low-pressure repetition of early sounds and power words like “more” and “all done”. SpeechBarn builds practice around exactly those first words — your child feeds Pip the piglet while hearing and copying real speech sounds, a few minutes a day.
What are good speech therapy games for a 2–3 year old?
The best games for this age pair a simple action with a target word: feeding an animal (“more”), tidying toys away (“all done”), or popping bubbles. Every SpeechBarn game works this way and was designed by Nina, a UK registered speech and language therapist.
Is SpeechBarn a replacement for speech therapy?
No. SpeechBarn is structured at-home practice designed to complement work with a speech-language pathologist — while you wait for therapy or between sessions. It does not diagnose and is not a replacement for professional care.
Don't wait to start helping.
Answer a few quick questions and build a plan around your child's speech — free to start, no signup.