Speech therapy materials for your practice:
+69 free tools category by category
Speech therapy rehabilitation requires varied, precise, and tailored tools for each profile. Whether it's to support a dyslexic child in their relationship with writing, to assist a young person with autism in their social interactions, to work on phonology with a preschool-aged child, or to structure sessions around stuttering or feeding oral issues — having the right support at the right time makes all the difference. At DYNSEO, we have designed over 69 completely free professional tools, organized by therapeutic area, to enrich your daily practice. Cards, boards, sequencers, grids, visual supports, tracking sheets: here is your complete guide, category by category.
- Written language, dyslexia and graphemes
- Phonology, phonological awareness and articulation
- Vocabulary, lexical retrieval and semantic categories
- Alternative communication, AAC and pictograms
- Emotions, regulation and social skills
- ADHD: attention, impulsivity and organization
- ASD: autism and specific needs
- Food oralization and desensitization
- Down syndrome: communication and behavior
- Therapeutic follow-up and session organization
- Autonomy, routines and school organization
- Frequently asked questions
Why is speech therapy material so crucial?
Speech therapy is a discipline that relies on a strong therapeutic relationship, but also on concrete supports that allow for objectifying difficulties, making visible progress, and transferring skills outside the office. A good speech therapy tool is not just another educational support: it is a mediator between the therapist and the patient, a visual reference for the parent, a lever of motivation for the child.
Language and communication disorders manifest in extremely diverse ways. A 6-year-old child with a phonological disorder does not have the same needs as a dyslexic teenager experiencing school dropout, nor as an aphasic adult in post-Stroke rehabilitation. This diversity calls for a wide range of tools, carefully differentiated, covering the entire spectrum of speech therapy interventions. This is the principle that guides the creation of DYNSEO tools.
Each resource presented in this article is designed by health and special education professionals. It is free, directly accessible online, and available in several languages to meet the needs of French-speaking and international professionals. Below you will find the entirety of our catalog, organized by clinical area, with direct links to each tool.
💡 How to use this guide
Each section below corresponds to a therapeutic area. For each tool, you will find its name and a direct link to the download page. DYNSEO tools can be freely used in a professional setting, in an office, at school, or at home. No registration is required for most resources.
1. Written language, dyslexia and graphemes 5 tools
Written language is a fundamental area of pediatric speech therapy. DYS disorders — dyslexia, dysorthographia, dysgraphia — affect about one in ten children and require rigorous and progressive intervention. These tools cover the phonological route (grapho-phonemic correspondences), the lexical route (word memorization), and strategies for revision and self-correction.
Dyslexia is characterized by persistent difficulties in acquiring reading skills, despite normal intelligence and an adapted school environment. It affects both the automation of decoding and reading fluency. Research in cognitive neuropsychology shows that phonological training, combined with work on working memory and rapid naming, is the most effective approach. DYNSEO tools incorporate these dimensions.
Awareness of complex graphemes is often neglected in the early years of learning, while it directly conditions success in spelling. The table of complex graphemes proposed by DYNSEO offers speech therapists a clear and progressive reference, usable from the first signs of spelling fragility.
🎯 Key points to remember for written language rehabilitation
- Working on visual confusions (b/d, p/q) is a priority for visually-attentional dyslexics
- Syllabic flash cards train fluency and automation
- The proofreading grid makes self-correction accessible from the second grade
- The visual writing plan supports textual planning, often deficient in dysorthographia
Paper exercises can be reinforced with the application COCO THINKS, which offers adaptive reading activities for dyslexic children, with automatic difficulty adjustment.
2. Phonology, phonological awareness and articulation 4 tools
Phonology is the foundation of all language learning. Before learning to read, a child must be able to manipulate the sounds of the language: identify syllables, distinguish phonemes, segment and blend sound units. These metalinguistic skills, grouped under the term phonological awareness, are robust predictors of reading success.
Phonological disorders affect between 3 and 10% of preschool children. They can manifest as substitutions (replacing one sound with another), omissions (deleting sounds in a word), assimilations (making two sounds similar in the same word), or syllabic processes (reduction of consonant clusters, etc.). Early intervention is crucial to prevent these difficulties from becoming an obstacle to learning to read.
The complex sounds picture book is a particularly valuable tool for working on consonant clusters and late phonemes. Combined with phonological awareness cards, it allows for a logical and regular progression from syllables to complex words.
An effective phonological rehabilitation follows a funnel progression: from global auditory discrimination to fine discrimination, then from isolated production to integration in spontaneous context. The DYNSEO articulatory tracking chart allows for documenting each step of this progression and making the progress visible for the patient and their family.
Praxies → Auditory discrimination → Isolated phoneme production → Syllable → Word → Sentence → Spontaneous speech. Fluency cards are particularly indicated for working on stuttering in adults and adolescents.
3. Vocabulary, lexical evocation and semantic categories 4 tools
Word finding difficulties (or anomia) are one of the most frequently encountered symptoms in speech therapy, whether in a developmental context (child with language delay, specific language impairment) or acquired (aphasia, dementia). Working on vocabulary in speech therapy is not limited to naming pictures: it involves structuring mental lexicon, strengthening semantic networks, and developing strategies for accessing words.
DYNSEO's lexical evocation cards are designed to elicit different modalities for accessing words: definition, category, usage, phonological similarity. This multidimensional approach strengthens connections in the mental lexicon and improves word retrieval in spontaneous situations. The image story sequencer, for its part, allows for working on narrative vocabulary in a meaningful and contextualized setting.
💡 Clinical advice: semantic bingo in groups
The semantic categories bingo is particularly effective in group sessions with school-aged children. It encourages spontaneous metalinguistic exchanges ("it's a vegetable because…") and allows the speech therapist to observe the categorization strategies used by each child.
4. Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) 5 tools
Alternative and Augmentative Communication encompasses all strategies and tools aimed at supporting or replacing oral communication when it is insufficient or absent. It is aimed at individuals with motor disorders (Cerebral Palsy, ALS), cognitive disorders (intellectual disability, ASD) or acquired disorders (severe aphasia, locked-in syndrome). AAC does not discourage oral communication: it supports it and can even promote it.
The DYNSEO interactive pictogram board provides a solid foundation for initiating an AAC approach. It can be used alone or supplemented by the visual communication board to create a personalized communication system. The "How to ask" support is specially designed for children who are beginning to adopt AAC, providing them with a simple and reproducible structure for making functional requests.
🔧 Success conditions for implementing AAC
- Assess motor, cognitive, and sensory skills before choosing the system
- Train the family and school environment in the use of the chosen tools
- Use pictograms in real functional situations from the start
- Regularly reassess the system and adapt it to the patient's progress
- Never remove an AAC system without offering a replacement
5. Emotions, regulation, and social skills 8 tools
Emotional and social skills are at the heart of human communication. However, they are frequently deficient in patients followed in speech therapy: children with autism spectrum disorders struggling to decode facial expressions, adolescents with ADHD whose impulsivity affects social relationships, anxious children whose fears paralyze communication. These tools offer concrete mediators to work on these transversal skills.
The DYNSEO facial expression decoder is a leading tool for children with emotional recognition difficulties. By working on clear and progressive visual supports, it allows for the establishment of a common emotional vocabulary between the therapist, the child, and their family. The emotions thermometer complements this work by introducing the notion of emotional intensity, often difficult to grasp for dyslexic or anxious children.
Social scenarios constitute a scientifically validated approach to work on pragmatic skills in individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Initially developed by Carol Gray, they prepare patients for specific social situations by describing expected behaviors and implicit social rules. The visual and non-visual versions offered by DYNSEO adapt to different profiles.
🎭 Integrate emotional regulation into speech therapy sessions
Emotional regulation is not a skill separate from language: it is an essential component. A child who cannot name their emotions cannot talk about them. Using the emotion thermometer at the beginning of the session creates a ritual of emotional awareness that enhances therapeutic engagement and the quality of exchanges.
6. ADHD: attention, impulsivity, and organization 10 tools
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most commonly encountered neurodevelopmental disorders in speech therapy. It affects about 5 to 7% of school-aged children and is characterized by difficulties in sustained attention, impaired inhibitory control, behavioral impulsivity, and often significant disorganization in planned tasks. These difficulties have a direct impact on language learning.
The speech therapist intervenes in ADHD not only on the associated language disorders (dyslexia, dysorthographia, comprehension difficulties) but also on the compensatory strategies that allow the child to better manage their attention and impulsivity in communication and learning situations. The DYNSEO tools dedicated to ADHD have been designed with this dual perspective.
The ADHD behavior contract, calm-down cards, and distraction management chart function as external regulators that allow the child to gradually internalize self-control strategies. The "My ADHD brain" sheet has major psychoeducational value: it helps the child understand their functioning and to shift focus from their difficulties.
ADHD is often associated with oral and written language disorders, difficulties in text comprehension, and working memory deficits that directly impact school learning. The speech therapist plays a central role in the rehabilitation of these disorders, in collaboration with the pediatric neurologist, the teacher, and the family.
The ADHD active break cards allow for the introduction of 2 to 3-minute micro-motor breaks during sessions, which significantly improves attention quality during the subsequent language exercises. This approach is validated by research in neuroscience.
7. ASD: autism spectrum disorders 6 tools
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by difficulties in social communication, reciprocal interactions, and the presence of repetitive behaviors or restricted interests. The speech therapist is one of the frontline professionals in supporting individuals with ASD, working on language, pragmatic, and socio-communicative skills.
The DYNSEO tools dedicated to ASD are based on a fundamental principle: each autistic person has a unique profile. The ASD passport is an interdisciplinary communication tool that allows for the transmission of essential information about a person's functioning, needs, and strengths from one environment to another. It is particularly valuable during transitions (changing schools, hospitalization, etc.).
The ASD crisis management plan addresses a concrete need of families and educational teams: having a clear and shared protocol to manage moments of emotional or sensory crisis. The ASD sensory needs card complements this system by allowing those around to better understand and anticipate sensory triggers.
🌟 The visual timer: a universal tool in ASD
The visual timer is often underestimated in its clinical scope. For individuals with ASD, abstract time is a major source of anxiety. Making time visible and predictable through a concrete visual support reduces anxiety related to transitions and significantly improves cooperation during sessions. It can be used from the very first meeting.
8. Food Orality and Desensitization 5 tools
Food oral disorders represent a specialized area of speech therapy that is gaining recognition. They affect many children, particularly those with developmental disorders, prematurity, neonatal respiratory pathologies, or sensory disorders. They can range from mild food selectivity to a complete refusal of food requiring enteral nutrition.
The therapeutic approach to food oral disorders is based on two complementary axes: gradual desensitization (reducing reactivity to tactile, taste, and olfactory stimuli) and graded exposure (increasing the food repertoire while respecting the child's pace). DYNSEO tools for orality provide the necessary supports for these two axes.
The sensory food journal is a valuable tool for objectifying selectivity patterns, identifying accepted textures and flavors, and measuring long-term progress. Combined with the food tolerance scale, it allows for the definition of realistic therapeutic goals and rigorous tracking of progress.
The mouth is one of the most innervated areas of the human body. In children with oral hypersensitivity, any stimulation can trigger a disproportionate defense response. Desensitization proceeds through gradual habituation, strictly respecting the stimulus-response hierarchy.
Start with visual stimuli (looking at the food), then tactile at a distance (touching with a spoon), then skin contact (hand, cheek), then labial, then intraoral. Only move to the next step when the child shows stable tolerance to the previous step.
9. Down syndrome: communication and support 7 tools
Down syndrome is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. It is characterized by muscle hypotonia (including the oro-facial sphere), working memory difficulties, a particular language profile often with better comprehension than production, and specificities in motor development. The speech therapist plays a central role throughout the life of the person with Down syndrome, from early childhood to adulthood.
Communication is at the heart of the challenges for children with Down syndrome. Visual communication tools, illustrated morning routines, and difficult behavior management sheets help create a structured and predictable environment that supports both autonomy and communication skills. The motor activity sheet is particularly valuable in the early years, where speech therapy work closely aligns with physiotherapy and psychomotricity.
The application MY DICTIONARY from DYNSEO is specifically designed as a communication aid for individuals with complex communication needs, including Down syndrome. It can be used in conjunction with paper tools during speech therapy sessions. Discover our apps →
10. Therapeutic follow-up and session organization 7 tools
The quality of speech therapy follow-up is not limited to the relevance of the chosen exercises: it also includes the rigor of the follow-up, the clarity of the objectives, and the transmission of information between the different stakeholders (therapist, family, educational team). These follow-up and organization tools help structure the care and make progress visible to all stakeholders.
The session objectives sheet is one of the most used tools by speech therapists using DYNSEO resources. It allows defining the priority objectives at the beginning of the session, noting clinical observations along the way, and formulating recommendations for home practice. Associated with the home progress journal, it creates therapeutic continuity between the office and home.
📊 Making progress visible: a key to therapeutic engagement
Children and adolescents often struggle to perceive their own progress, especially in such an abstract area as language. The progress tracking chart and motivation tracker serve as an objective mirror: they materialize advancements, reinforce perseverance, and maintain engagement in sometimes lengthy treatments.
11. Autonomy, routines, and school organization 8 tools
The development of autonomy is a cross-cutting objective of speech therapy, particularly important for children with learning disorders, neurodevelopmental issues, or organizational difficulties. The speech therapist works closely with families and teachers to build habits and routines that support language learning in daily life.
The pocket memory aid and the backpack checklist are cognitive compensation tools that allow dyslexic, ADHD, or autism children to externalize part of their mental load. By entrusting an external support with the memorization of tasks and materials, the child frees up working capacity to focus on what matters: learning and communicating.
The homework planner and the school dropout prevention support meet a crucial need for families: how to structure homework so that it remains a space for learning and not conflict? These tools provide clear, progressive frameworks adapted to different disorders.
🎯 Principles of good school organization with DYS disorders
- Externalize memory: lists, memory aids, visual planners
- Break down complex tasks into small sequenced steps
- Use visual time markers rather than verbal ones (visual timer)
- Encourage routine regularity to reduce decision-making load
- Involve the child in creating their own compensation tools
Are you also looking for a digital solution?
In addition to these free tools, discover DYNSEO applications: COCO THINKS and COCO MOVES for children, CLINT for adults, SCARLETT for seniors. More than 30 adaptive cognitive exercises, usable in sessions and at home.
12. Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, the vast majority of the tools presented in this article are completely free and accessible directly from the pages of our site, without prior registration. Some resources associated with DYNSEO training may require access to the corresponding training, but they are clearly identified. DYNSEO's goal is to make high-quality speech therapy materials accessible to as many people as possible.
Yes! Most DYNSEO tools are available in 8 languages: French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, and simplified Chinese, with partial access in Hindi. On each tool page, you can navigate to the version in your language using the provided links. This multilingual accessibility is at the heart of DYNSEO's international mission.
Absolutely. These tools are designed for professional use in private practice, in CAMSP, in SESSAD, in IME, in hospitals, in Nursing homes, and in schools. You can print them, project them, use them in individual or group sessions. Redistribution for commercial purposes is not allowed, but sharing with your patients' families as part of their care is perfectly permitted.
The categorization provided in this article is your first guide. Identify your patient's main area (written language, phonology, emotions, ADHD, etc.) and then explore the corresponding tools. To refine your choice, consider the patient's age, cognitive profile (visual, auditory, kinesthetic), interests, and your current therapeutic goals. Feel free to combine several tools from the same area: they complement each other.
No. These tools are therapeutic supports, not substitutes for professional care. They were designed to enrich speech therapy sessions, allow for quality work between sessions, and facilitate collaboration between the professional, the patient, and their family. For any language or communication disorder, consulting a qualified speech therapist remains essential to establish a diagnosis and define an appropriate therapeutic project.
Yes. DYNSEO offers a catalog of certified Qualiopi e-learning training courses (N° 11757351875), eligible for OPCO, covering topics such as behavioral disorders in nursing homes, Down syndrome, ADHD, autism, and many others. These training courses are available for health professionals, educators, and families. Several tools presented in this article are directly derived from these training courses or serve as educational supports. See the training courses →
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