Skip to main content

Speech Cards

A tool designed to help professionals support speech, language and literacy through customizable, research-based, fun cards!

Malak Abdelghaffar avatar
Written by Malak Abdelghaffar
Updated this week

No two children learn the same way—some need visual support, others respond best to structured practice, and many thrive when learning feels personal and engaging. With Nookly's Speech Cards, you can create customized decks that keep children motivated and make real progress in their speech development. Our Speech Cards are:

Built on research – Uses proven speech therapy techniques.
Designed for customization – Tailors sound cues, wordlists, and strategies.
Focused on speech & literacy – Strengthens articulation & comprehension.
Made to engage – Turns learning into a fun, interactive experience.
Optimized for efficiency – Saves time with quick, easy setup.

In under 10 minutes, you can create a fully personalized deck that targets speech sounds, phonological processes, or articulation challenges, tailored to the specific needs of each child.


Step 1: Choose your Approach

You can tailor your approach to every child's learning needs by choosing from two card deck methods:

1️⃣ Sound Cues & Word Lists

Ideal for building foundational speech and literacy skills, this approach focuses on phonemes, wordlists, and structured practice. You can choose to display either phonic/sound cues or word lists, depending on your specific teaching goals. This approach helps:

🔹 Strengthen phonemic awareness and sound recognition

🔹 Reinforce sound production with visual and auditory cues
🔹 Enhance auditory discrimination to differentiate similar sounds
🔹 Develop language skills and boost comprehension and expression

💡 Example Deck: Sound Cues cards focusing on vowel and consonant articulation using child-friendly, engaging visual cues.

Nookly’s Speech Card example shows a playful, animated goose labeled 'Happy Goose Sound' teaching the /g/ sound. The card includes the cue: 'The letter that makes the sound /g/' with the phonetic prompt 'guh-guh-guh.' Beside the card, a smiling cartoon goose reinforces the sound visually. A toggle labeled 'Guide on' appears at the top, indicating users can turn on or off guided word prompts. Designed for child-friendly speech therapy, this card blends articulation practice with fun animal visuals to support consonant sound learning.

2️⃣ Corrective Strategies & Processing Disorders

Designed for targeted intervention in speech challenges, this approach applies four evidence-based strategies to enhance articulation and speech clarity. Each deck is tailored to match the selected strategy, ensuring focused and effective practice. The four strategies include:


🔹 Minimal pairs for voicing distinctions
🔹 Coarticulation for smoother sound transitions
🔹 Facilitative contexts for accurate articulation
🔹 Complexity approach for generalization of untreated sounds

💡 Example Deck: Minimal Pairs cards targeting vowel length contrasts (e.g., Ship/Sheep) and liquid sound contrasts (e.g., Light/Right).

Nookly’s Minimal Pairs Cards feature vibrant visuals targeting vowel length and sound contrasts, ideal for speech therapy. This sample deck includes pairs like 'Tip' vs. 'Dip,' 'Bat' vs. 'Pat,' 'Pan' vs. 'Ban,' and 'Sip' vs. 'Zip,' shown with child-friendly illustrations of objects and actions. The layout presents two rows of colorful cards, each labeled with a word to support auditory discrimination and articulation practice. Perfect for SLPs working on phonological awareness and helping children hear and produce similar-sounding words more clearly.

Once you select your card style, you can fine-tune the deck to match the child’s learning goals and ensure a personalized, engaging, and effective experience.


Step 2: Customize your Cards

Every child has different speech needs, so personalization is key. Your customization options will depend on the deck method you choose.

[Method A] Sound Cues & Word Lists

📌 Customize your deck by:

  • Card style (Phonic/Sound Cue or Word List)

  • Target sound (75 options, e.g., /æ/, /ʊ/, /r/, /sh/)

  • Sound position for Word Lists (initial, medial, final)

  • Word structure/type for Word Lists (26 options, e.g., CVC words)

  • Number of cards (1–32)

  • Featured child for personalization (optional)

Nookly’s speech card customization interface lets professionals create tailored decks by selecting card type (Phonic/Sound Cue or Word List), target sounds (e.g., /æ/, /ʊ/, /r/, /sh/), word structure (like CVC), sound position (initial, medial, final), number of cards (1–32), and optionally feature a child for personalization. The screenshot shows dropdowns and selection fields for configuring phoneme targets, sound positions, and optional details for highly personalized speech therapy materials.

[Method B] Corrective Strategies & Processing Disorders

📌 Customize your deck by:

  • Corrective strategy (e.g., coarticulation, minimal pairs)

  • Target sound (e.g., /k/, /h/, /r/)

  • Processing Disorder (e.g., liquids & glides, fronting & backing)

  • Number of cards (1–32)

  • Featured child for personalization (optional)

ookly’s Corrective Strategies & Processing Disorders deck customization screen allows users to build targeted speech therapy materials by selecting a corrective approach (e.g., coarticulation, minimal pairs), optional target sounds, processing disorder type (like final consonant deletion), number of cards (1–32), and optional child personalization. The screenshot highlights dropdowns and sliders for fine-tuning card creation to address specific speech sound challenges and articulation strategies.

Step 3: Edit & Review

📌 Your cards will take a few minutes to generate, so feel free to browse other tabs while our AI works its magic. Once they’re ready, click "Expand Cards" to view, flip through, and use them in your sessions.

Once your cards are generated, you can further refine both the text and visuals to ensure they align perfectly with your goals. Turn edit mode on, to:

✏️ Edit captions – Click the pencil icon to adjust or fine-tune the text on each card.

🔄 Regenerate images – Refresh up to four alternate visuals per card to.

Save Changes – Hit the checkmark button once you’re happy with your edits.

When you’re done, your cards will be ready to go! Click Expand Cards to start practicing immediately or select Go to Reading Nook to access them anytime.

Nookly’s editing interface for personalized learning cards showing two illustrated characters labeled 'Star' and 'Ring' with a caption card reading 'Star + Ring = Starring'. The top panel highlights editing tools: pencil icon to edit captions, refresh icon to regenerate up to four image variations, and a checkmark icon to save changes. This user-friendly editor lets parents and professionals customize AI-generated cards for learning, language development, or speech therapy.

Step 4: Extend Learning Beyond the Session

Speech practice doesn’t stop when the session ends! To help children continue making progress at home, you can share the customized sound cards with caregivers in multiple ways:

📥 Download – Save the cards for easy access anytime.
🖨️ Print – Create hands-on practice materials.
📢 Share digitally – Send via email or social apps for on-the-go use.

By sharing the child's customized resources, caregivers can integrate speech practice into daily routines, reinforcing progress between sessions and making learning more effective. 🚀


Looking for more help? Watch our Sound Cards Tutorial for a step-by-step walkthrough and pro tips!👇

Did this answer your question?