Who’s at the table? Type a nickname (no real names needed), then pick Speech sound, Language or My deck. For speech, choose the sound, the word positions and the level (word, phrase or sentence).
Add more students with New student (up to four). Turns rotate automatically, and each child keeps their own targets.
Pick a game and press Start.
After each try, score it. The child then gets a quick, fun reaction, and the next picture appears.
Press Finish for a celebration and a session summary with a ready-to-paste note.
Scoring during a session
The scoring panel sits in the bottom corner of the game screen.
✓ Correct, ≈ Close (an approximation) or ↺ Try again. Every try moves the game forward, so kids never “lose”.
Cue level (Independent, Visual, Verbal or Model) is the dropdown above the buttons. It’s saved with each try.
Undo takes back the last score. Skip moves to a new picture without scoring.
Hide shrinks the panel so the child sees only the game.
⚙︎ Settings: show or hide the written word, music, sound effects, mystery surprises, and trip length (how many tries until the big celebration).
Keyboard shortcuts (laptop or Bluetooth keyboard): 1 correct, 2 close, 3 try again, → skip, Z undo, H hide or show the panel.
📱 Phone remote (in person)
Score privately from your phone while the child plays on an iPad, laptop or classroom board.
Start a game on the big screen.
Tap 📱 Connect (top left), and keep the Phone remote tab selected.
Point your phone’s camera at the QR code and open the link. Or type the link shown under the room code.
When it says ✓ Phone connected, close the box. Your phone now shows the target word and the scoring buttons, Undo, Skip and cue level.
💡 The phone and the big screen don’t need to be on the same Wi-Fi. Any internet connection works. If school Wi-Fi drops for a moment, both reconnect on their own.
💻 Teletherapy
The child sees the real game on their own screen, crisp and smooth, instead of a blurry screen share. You stay on your usual video call.
Start your video call as usual (Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or your therapy platform).
In PipSpeech, start a game, tap 📱 Connect, and choose the 💻 Teletherapy tab.
Press Copy link and paste it into the video call chat (or send it to the parent).
The child opens the link in a browser on any computer or tablet and taps Tap to start. You’ll see ✓ Child screen connected.
You score from your screen. The child plays their part on theirs: feeding the dragon, popping bubbles, opening gifts and tapping answers to language questions. Both screens stay in sync.
💡 Keep PipSpeech in its own browser window, and share only your face on video. The child doesn’t need an account or an app. Each session gets a new private room code that expires when you finish.
💡 You can use both together: run teletherapy from your laptop and score from your phone.
Groups
Add up to four students on the home screen. The game shows whose turn it is, with their avatar.
Each child practices their own target: one can work on /r/ while another works on past tense.
In Hungry Hatchling, every child gets their own dragon in their own nest. It grows with their practice and changes with the snacks they pick.
The session summary breaks down accuracy for each student.
Language targets
Choose Language for a student, then pick one or more skills: verb tenses, plurals, pronouns, possessives, prepositions, negatives, wh-questions and more. Each item shows a picture and a sentence with three choices. The child taps an answer, and it’s scored automatically. The first answer counts: if they get it on a second try, it’s recorded as incorrect so your data stays honest. Tap the 🔈 button to read the question aloud.
Receptive skills (identify objects, actions, prepositions and describing words) work the same way, but the answers are pictures only, so reading never gives the answer away. Read the prompt aloud, or tap 🔈, and the child points to or taps the matching picture, for example “Find the cat under the chair” or “Which dog is big?”.
Your own decks
Open My decks to build practice sets from your own photos (snap real objects in your room), your own voice recordings, or pictures from the built-in library. Then choose My deck for a student on the home screen. Decks are great for vocabulary, carryover and a child’s favorite things.
Goals, progress & reports
Open Students (top of the home screen) to see your caseload.
Press 🎯 Set a goal and choose the accuracy and number of sessions in a row, for example 80% across 3 sessions. The chart shows the goal line and says when it’s met.
Press 📄 Report for a clean, printable progress report: accuracy over time, accuracy by position or skill, a session log and your comments. Use Print / Save as PDF for IEP meetings.
Export trials (CSV) gives you every scored try for your own records.
🔒 Students and sessions are stored only on the device you use, by nickname. Use the same device and browser to keep a student’s history together.
Install on an iPad or Chromebook
iPad (Safari): open the app, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen. It opens full screen like an app and keeps working if the Wi-Fi drops.
Chromebook or computer (Chrome or Edge): click the install icon at the right end of the address bar.
On a classroom board, open the app in the board’s browser and go full screen.
Troubleshooting
The phone or child screen says “Waiting…” and won’t connect
Check that both devices are online and that the link has the same room code as the Connect box. If the session ended, start a new one and use the new code. School networks sometimes block live connections: try the phone on mobile data instead of Wi-Fi.
There’s no sound
Browsers only allow sound after the first tap, so tap the screen once. Check the device isn’t on silent, and that Music and Sound effects are on in ⚙︎ Settings.
My students or decks disappeared
They live in the browser on the device you used. A different device, a private window, or clearing browser data won’t show them. Use the same device and browser, and export a CSV now and then.
The child keeps tapping instead of talking
Open ⚙︎ Settings and set Mystery surprises to Correct only or Off. You can also press Hide so the scoring panel stays out of view.
Still stuck, or have an idea?
Use the Feedback button in the app, or contact us. We read everything, and SLP feedback decides what we build next.