Little Tools for sessions and for home
Little Words is mostly things a child plays with. These are for the adult in the room: build the board, sequence the routine, plan the session, log the trials, send the week home. They run in the browser, they print properly on US Letter, and none of them asks anyone to make an account.
Choice board maker
Pick cards from 36 decks or type your own words, arrange 2, 4, 6 or 9 cells, and tap any cell to hear the word out loud. Print it, or send the whole board as a link.
SLPs · teachers · parents Build a board →Visual schedule maker
A First / Then pair or a routine strip of up to eight steps, with pictures that talk and checkmarks you can tick as the routine runs.
SLPs · teachers · parents Build a schedule →Session planner
Choose a target and a length; get the session block by block — warm-up, drill, games, story, wrap-up — with a working link on every line and a printable one-pager.
SLPs Plan a session →Session data sheet
Correct, approximation, cued — three taps per trial, a running summary per target, then CSV or print. The numbers stay on your device.
SLPs Start a tally →Home practice pack
Pick the sound and get seven days of five-minute activities, one link each, plus a log for the fridge. Built to hand to a family at the end of a session.
Parents · sent home by SLPs Build a week →Syllable counter
Type any word and get the beat count with a clap-along breakdown, plus word lists sorted by how many syllables they carry.
SLPs · parents Count the beats →Speech sound age checker
Enter an age and see which sounds most children have by then, which are emerging and which come later, from published acquisition norms.
Parents · SLPs Check an age →Talking flashcards
Not a tool exactly, but it is where most of these lead: 720 illustrated cards across 36 decks, each one recorded, with word, phrase and sentence levels.
Everyone Open the decks →Why these are free
An SLP with a full caseload should not be paying a subscription to arrange six pictures in a grid, and a parent should not hit a paywall on the way to a five-minute activity. The tools are static pages: your board, your schedule and your plan live in the link you copied, and your tally lives in your own browser. There is no server holding any of it, which is also why none of it needs an account, a consent form, or a conversation about where a child's data went.
One thing we have deliberately not built: a camera tool. Putting a child's face through a browser we control is a category of risk that a talking picture board simply does not carry, and our differentiator is Buddy's voice, not video.
Where the tools sit in the rest of the site
Little Words tools are activity materials for practice and play. They are not an assessment, they do not diagnose, and they do not replace working with a speech-language pathologist.