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Three tools, one workflow

Pick the one you need — or get all three

Each tool stands alone. Together they cover the full picture of pediatric speech and language from early communication through speech sound mastery.

Speech Sounds

Informal Speech Sound Assessment

Collect a conversational speech sample, tally consonants in real time, and calculate Percent Consonants Correct across two speaking contexts. Identify error patterns, phonological processes, and motor planning characteristics.

✓Live PCC calculation with severity scoring

✓Consonant inventory by developmental age

✓10 phonological processes with definitions

✓Motor planning characteristics checklist

✓Parent summary PDF in one click

$39

single-user license · use forever

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Fluency & Stuttering

Informal Fluency Assessment

Tally six disfluency types across three speaking samples — play, conversation, and reading or retell. Get live percent stuttered syllables with severity scoring based on SSI-4 ranges, plus a secondary behaviors checklist.

✓3 speaking samples with live % calculation

✓6 disfluency types with individual tallies

✓Live severity bar (SSI-4 ranges)

✓Secondary behaviors checklist

✓Parent summary + stuttering handout PDF

$39

single-user license · use forever

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Early Language

MLU & Let's Talk Stages

Enter utterances from a language sample and calculate Mean Length of Utterance with automatic Brown's Stage matching. Then assess early communication skills through the Let's Talk framework — Observer, Engager, Talker, Combiner, Converser.

✓MLU calculator with Brown's Stage matching

✓Brown's 14 morphemes observational checklist

✓Auto-identifies working Let's Talk stage

✓Stage-specific goal suggestions

✓Parent handout downloads for each stage

$39

single-user license · use forever

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Best value

The Complete Assessment Bundle

All three tools together — Speech Sound Disorder, Fluency & Stuttering, and Early Language. One purchase, one link, all three tools ready to use. Covers the full picture of pediatric speech and language.

🗣️ SSD + PCC 💬 Fluency 🌱 Early Language

$117 if bought separately

$97

Save $20 · All 3 tools

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Who these are for

Built for how pediatric SLPs actually work

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Private practice SLPs

Consistent data collection across sessions. Parent-facing PDFs that make every consultation clearer and more professional.

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School-based SLPs

Structured informal data for eligibility reports, progress monitoring, and IEP meetings — collected during natural interaction.

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Telepractice SLPs

Works entirely in the browser. Share your screen during session and email the parent PDF when you are done.

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Preschool screeners

Pairs perfectly with the Speech Source Screening Kit for a complete play-based screening workflow.

About the creators

Built by pediatric SLPs, for pediatric SLPs

We are Kim and Mary — two pediatric speech-language pathologists with over 28 years of combined experience in early intervention, private practice, and preschool settings. We built these tools because we needed them ourselves. We wanted consistent data collection that worked in real sessions with real kids, not just in ideal conditions. Everything here was tested in our own caseloads first.

Kim & Mary

Kim Dillon, M.A., CCC-SLP & Mary Brezik, M.S., CCC-SLP · The Speech Source

Questions

Are these standardized assessments?

No — and that is by design. These are informal clinical tools meant to complement your formal standardized assessments, not replace them. Use them alongside tools like the Goldman Fristoe, GFTA-3, SSI-4, or Rosetti to add real-time conversational data and make results easier to explain to families.

What devices do these work on?

Any modern browser on any device — iPad, laptop, desktop, or phone. No app to download, no software to install. Just a link you bookmark and open whenever you need it.

How do I get access after purchasing?

You will receive an email immediately after checkout with a link to your tool and a password to access it. Bookmark the link and use it in any session going forward.

What is included in the bundle?

The $97 bundle includes all three tools — the Speech Sound Disorder PCC Assessment, the Fluency and Stuttering Assessment, and the Early Language Assessment. That is the same as purchasing all three individually at $117, saving you $18.

Is this a subscription?

No. Each tool is a one-time purchase with a single-user license. Use it in as many sessions as you want with your own clients, forever.

Can my whole clinic use it?

The individual license is for one clinician. If you want to use it across a clinic or practice, reach out and we can talk about a clinic license. Email us at thespeechsource@gmail.com.

Informal assessments that fit naturally into your sessions

Pick the one you need — or get all three

How it works

Built for how pediatric SLPs actually work

Built by pediatric SLPs, for pediatric SLPs

Questions

Tools built for the sessions you are already doing