SLPlayground
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Grades 6–12

Speech therapy your middle and high schoolers won’t roll their eyes at

Escape rooms, coffee-shop challenges, group-chat mysteries, and real-world problems to solve. Every game is built by an SLP around meaningful therapy goals—with a look and feel designed for older students.

No prep. No student names. Works on any screen and in teletherapy.

Locked In: a detective’s office with locks on the desk and the code word “Remedy” to say
Articulation

Locked In

An escape room where every lock opens with a word. The student says the code, the lock clicks open, and the letters hidden inside spell the final password.

  • Any sound, any position
  • 2–5 syllable words
  • Group mode
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Order Up!: a customer at a coffee-shop counter ordering a spinach wrap
Articulation carryover

Order Up!

Work the counter at a coffee shop or a drive-thru. Say single menu items, read back a full order, or take a live order you only hear. Every item on the menu has the target sound.

  • Carryover
  • Initial · medial · final
  • Group mode
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Group Chat Detective: a fictional group chat with clues to mark
Social language

Group Chat Detective

21 fictional group-chat cases. Students mark the clues in the chat, pick the reading the evidence supports, consider each person’s side, then rewrite the message so it lands.

  • Tone & sarcasm
  • Figurative language
  • Repairing a misunderstanding
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Fix the Fail: a school event gone wrong, with fixes to choose on a budget
Problem solving

Fix the Fail

Rescue a disastrous bake sale, field trip, dance or group project on a small budget. Explain what went wrong, choose your fixes, put them in order, then watch each one work, fail or backfire.

  • Cause and effect
  • Sequencing
  • Explaining a plan
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Read the Room: a message and the question of what it really means
Social language

Read the Room

What does the message really mean? Group chats, posts and everyday adult moments, from the checkout line to the front desk. 66 rounds across 11 topics, and every answer is explained from the words themselves.

  • Free to play
  • Inference & tone
  • High school to adult
Play Read the Room free →

More for older students

Mysteries, media literacy and real decisions, for students who are done with cartoon farm animals.

Escape the After Hours MallA group-chat mystery in a closing mall
Case ClosedInspect the clues, compare the stories, explain what happened
Worth the Hype?Read the pitch, check the evidence, make the call
Headline Mix-UpPick the accurate headline, then rewrite it

Also: Content Detective · Where Do You Stand? · Tip of My Tongue · Make Your Case. See every older-student activity →

Why SLPs use it with teens

Nothing to prep

Pick the sound or the skill and play. Every game runs in the browser, in the room or over teletherapy.

Nothing about your students

No student names, no caseload uploads. The site never asks for anything that identifies a child.

Built for groups

In Locked In and Order Up!, each student in the group practices their own sound, and you switch between them without restarting.

Try every game, free

One membership covers the whole library, for every student on your caseload. Cancel any time.

Or play the free games first.