The waitlist is brutal
Families wait 6+ months for a pediatric speech therapist — while the most important window for early speech keeps ticking.
Your child will learn to speak.
Speech-therapist-designed games for late talkers and kids who are hard to understand — play 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
When your child can't make themselves understood, every week matters.
The frustration is real
A child who can’t get the words out gets overwhelmed — and so do you. The meltdowns, the pointing, the guessing wear everyone down.
Nobody tells you what to do
Even after an evaluation, most parents go home with vague advice and no daily plan to actually build their child’s speech.
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 8–10 months while their kids struggled.
She couldn't keep sending parents home with nothing to do in the meantime. So she coded her clinic methods — real sounds, right order, play your child leads — into a barnyard game 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 sounds
A few quick questions build a plan around your child’s level — from first sounds and simple words to clearer, longer speech.
Practice that feels like play
Your child drags across each letter, hears the real sound, blends the word, and meets a barnyard friend. Five minutes, no fight.
Watch the words come
Short daily wins build momentum — and you get a simple progress summary to bring to your speech therapist.
The path ahead
Watch your child grow into a confident talker
- 1
First sounds
“mmm”, “buh”, “ah” — the building blocks every word is made of.
- 2
First words
Power words that unlock daily life: “more”, “all done”, “go”.
- 3
Two words together
Joining words into little phrases — “more bubbles”, “big cow”.
- 4
Clearer speech
Trickier sounds and longer words other people can finally understand.
- 5
A confident talker
Reaching for words on their own — 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.