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Speech Sound Curriculums for Speech Therapy

Step-by-Step Plans to Help Children Speak Clearly and Confidently

Stop piecing together random articulation activities. Our comprehensive speech sound curriculums give you ready-to-use therapy plans that make it easy to improve speech clarity—in therapy, at home, or in the classroom.

Save time, reduce planning stress, and start seeing faster progress in your students or clients.

✅ Designed by SLPs. Evidence-based. Easy to follow.

Speech Sound Curriculums for Speech Therapy and Sound Clarity

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Who’s it For?

  • Children and teens who are difficult to understand

  • Those with distortions on certain sounds like /r/

  • Those who mumble or slur their speech

  • Those with motor speech conditions such as apraxia

Who Can Use It?

  • Speech-Language Pathologists and Professionals

  • Speech Language Therapy Assistants and SLPAs

  • Parents and Caregivers

  • Teachers and Educators

Choose your Curriculum:

Articulation

Phonology

Motor Speech

Mumbling

Articulation Curriculum:

What is it? A complete, step-by-step curriculum that takes the guesswork out of articulation therapy — helping you save hours of prep time while guiding kids to faster, lasting progress.

Who is it for?
Children and teens who…

  • Say specific sounds incorrectly
  • Say some sounds with distortions or differences
  • Don’t say sounds correctly that are expected for their age

How Does it Work?

This Curriculum is broken down into three levels:

articulation curriculum for speech therapy

Beginner Level:

Early-Developing Sounds

(Ages 2-3 yrs and beyond)

  • Producing the following sounds: /b, n, m, p, h, w, d/ and vowels

Intermediate Level:

Mid-Developing Sounds

(Ages 3-4 yrs and beyond)

  • Producing the following sounds: /ɡ, k, f, t, ŋ (“ng”), “y”/

Advanced Level:

Later-Developing Sounds and Clusters

(Ages 4-7 yrs and beyond)

  • Producing the following sounds: /v, ʤ (“j”), s, ʧ (“ch”), l, ʃ (“sh”), z, /r/, “th” (voiced and voiceless), ʒ (“zh” as in “measure”) /
  • Producing Consonant Clusters

* Age ranges represent when children typically master these skills. However, this program can help older children/teens with these skills as well.

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Phonology Curriculum:

What is it? An easy-to-follow system for teaching phonology skills to children and teens ~ includes all therapy materials along with training and support.

Who is it for?
Children and teens who…

  • Leave off sounds at certain positions of the word (beginning, middle, or end)
  • Have trouble with whole classes of sounds, like long sounds (fricatives) or ones made in a particular place in the mouth (back sounds like /k/ and /g/)
  • Can say certain sounds in some positions/words but not others

    (ex: can say at the beginning of a word but not at the end)

How Does it Work?

This Curriculum is broken down into three levels:

Phonology Curriculum for Speech Therapy

Beginner Level:

Early Phonological Processes

(Ages 3-4 yrs and beyond)

  • Initial Consonant Deletion (e.g., “at” for “cat”)
  • Final Consonant Deletion (e.g., “do” for “dog”)
  • Unstressed Syllable Deletion (e.g., “nana” for “banana”)

Intermediate Level:

Mid-Developing Phonological Processes

(Ages 4-5 yrs and beyond)

  • Velar Fronting (e.g., “tat” for “cat”)
  • Backing (e.g., “gog” for “dog”)
  • Stopping of Fricatives (e.g., “toap” for “soap”)
  • Cluster Reduction (e.g., “poon” for “spoon”)

Advanced Level:

Later-Developing Phonological Processes

(Ages 4-7 yrs and beyond)

  • Gliding (e.g., “wabbit” for “rabbit”)
  • Prevocalic Voicing (e.g., “big” for “pig”)
  • Postvocalic Devoicing (e.g., “pick” for “pig”)

* Age ranges represent when children typically master these skills. However, this program can help older children/teens with these skills as well.

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Motor Speech Curriculum:

What is it? A guided therapy framework that takes the mystery out of treating motor speech disorders, giving you clear steps to help kids move from frustration to confident communication.

Who is it for?
Children and teens who…

  • Have speech sound errors are inconsistent
  • Have more trouble with sounds in longer words
  • Seem to physically struggle to get the sounds out
  • Sound robotic/choppy
  • Struggle with drooling or excessive saliva buildup

How Does it Work?

This Curriculum is broken down into three levels:

Motor Speech Curriculum for Speech Therapy

Beginner Level:

CV, VC, CVC Words

(Ages 1-3 yrs and beyond)

  • Produce consonant-vowel (CV), vowel-consonant (VC) and consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words

Intermediate Level:

Expanded Word Structures and Utterance Length

(Ages 1.5-4 yrs and beyond)

  • Produce Expanded Word Structures, such as CVCV, CCVC, etc.
  • Produce 2-Word Utterances

Advanced Level:

Coordination and Connected Speech

(Ages 3-7 yrs and beyond)

  • Improving oral proprioception and coordination for speech
  • Producing multi-syllabic words
  • Improving prosody (pitch, volume, rate)

* Age ranges represent when children typically master these skills. However, this program can help older children/teens with these skills as well.

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Mumbling Curriculum:

What is it? A structured, confidence-building program that helps children and teens who mumble learn to project their voice, articulate with intention, and communicate with confidence in any setting.

Who is it for?
Children and teens who…

  • Mumble or slur their speech
  • Speak too quickly
  • Speak too quietly
  • Can say sounds correctly in single words but intelligibility reduces in conversational speech

How does it work?

This Curriculum is broken down into three levels:

Mumbling Curriculum for Speech Therapy

Beginner Level:

Over-Articulation in Structured Tasks

(Ages 3-5 yrs and beyond)

  • Overarticulate in Single Words
  • Overarticulate in Phrases
  • Overarticulate in Sentences

Intermediate Level:

Speaking Clearly in Structured Conversation

(Ages 5-7 yrs and beyond)

  • Overarticulate in Structured Conversation
  • Overarticulate conversational speech when prompted

Advanced Level:

Self-Correcting in Conversation

(Ages 7-10 yrs and beyond)

  • Identify signs of a communication breakdown
  • Overarticulate during communication breakdown

* Age ranges represent when children typically master these skills. However, this program can help older children/teens with these skills as well.

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You Don’t Have to Do This Alone.

Every child’s communication journey is unique — but you don’t have to reinvent the wheel for each one.

Our Speech Sound Curriculums are just the beginning. Inside the SLK Curriculum, you’ll find comprehensive therapy plans for every major area of communication:

  • Language (vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, etc.)
  • Speech sound pronunciation
  • Social communication and pragmatic skills
  • Fluency and stuttering
  • Voice and resonance
  • Functional Communication

Each curriculum walks you through the therapy process step-by-step — from first session to mastery — so you can spend less time planning and more time helping children and teens succeed.

confident slp using the SLK Curriculum to Save Hours on Planning Each Week

Because when you have a clear plan, children make faster progress.

And when children start communicating clearly and confidently… everything changes.

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