Help your child find their voice
Speechie is a pediatric speech and language service preparing to launch virtually across Ontario. While we get ready, the free tools and plain-language guides here help you see what is typical, what is worth a closer look, and how to get help in your city today.
11 free tools
No sign-up, nothing stored on our servers, every tool cites its sources.
Built to CASLPO standards
Services begin only once the clinician's registration is confirmed.
Join the waitlist
One email when virtual appointments open.
What can speech and language support change?
- Clearer speech that others understand
- More words, longer sentences
- Confidence talking with other kids
- Parents who know what to practise
Speech and language support for children, starting virtually across Ontario
Speechie is being built around children from toddlers to early school age. Services will be provided by a speech-language pathologist registered with CASLPO, and will begin only once that registration is confirmed.
- Late talkers and first words
- Speech sounds and clarity
- Understanding and sentences
- Stuttering
- Bilingual homes
- Parent coaching
Clinician to be announced
Named once CASLPO registration is confirmed
What Speechie plans to offer
Lisps, the R sound, sounds left off words, and speech that is hard for others to understand.
First words that are slow to come, short sentences, trouble following directions or putting ideas into words.
Repeated sounds and words, blocks and tension in preschoolers and school-aged children, with parent-involved approaches.
How online sessions will work for children anywhere in Ontario, what you need at home, and which goals suit them.
Built to answer the questions parents actually ask
Everything runs in your browser. Each tool says plainly what it can and cannot tell you.
Speech sound checker
Which sounds most children say correctly by your child's age.
Milestone checklist
Birth to five, with clear next steps if several are missing.
Articulation practice game
Picture cards for 23 sounds, with stars and praise.
Toddler word counter
Tick the words your toddler says and compare by age.
Intelligibility estimator
How much strangers understand, versus what is typical.
Cost calculator
Out-of-pocket cost of a block of sessions after benefits.
What to expect from any speech-language pathologist in Ontario
Master's degree and CASLPO registration
Anyone using the title in Ontario must be on the public register, which you can search in two minutes.
Standards you can hold them to
Practice, privacy and advertising standards apply, and you can make a complaint if care falls short.
No reviews, no "best in Ontario"
Registrants may not use testimonials, ratings or superlatives. You will never see them here.
The questions parents bring most often
Virtual across Ontario, with free public help mapped city by city
Speechie, based in Toronto
Virtual appointments first, so a family in Thunder Bay gets the same access as a family in Toronto.
Monday to Friday: Virtual appointments, by booking (once open)
Saturday: Limited virtual appointments (once open)
Sunday: Closed
Ontario funds free preschool speech services through 31 lead agencies
The agency, phone number and school boards differ in every city. Each city page names them and shows what private therapy typically costs.
Browse all 16 citiesStart with the questions parents ask most
How much does speech therapy cost in Ontario?
Private speech therapy in Ontario typically costs $110 to $180 an hour and OHIP does not cover it. What sets the price, insurance, tax credits and free options.
How to get speech therapy for your child in Ontario
Free speech therapy for preschoolers, school services, treatment centres, hospital clinics and private care in Ontario. Here is every route and how to start.
Speech and language milestones by age: birth to 5
Age-by-age speech and language milestones from birth to 5, based on the ASHA 2023 milestones endorsed by SAC and Toronto Preschool Speech and Language benchmarks.
Speech sound development chart: when children learn each English sound
All 24 English consonants by age from Crowe and McLeod (2020), what the 50, 75 and 90 percent criteria mean, vowels, intelligibility and when to seek help.
Stuttering in toddlers and preschoolers: what is typical and when to get help
About 5 to 8 percent of preschoolers stutter at some point and most recover. Typical disfluency vs stuttering, risk factors, home strategies and when to get help.
When to see a speech-language pathologist: signs by age
Signs by age that a child should be assessed by a speech-language pathologist, why waiting to see rarely helps, and how Ontario families can self-refer for free.
Frequently asked questions
Is Speechie open for appointments?
Are the tools really free?
Can I get speech therapy for my child for free in Ontario?
Who is behind Speechie?
Want to be first in line when Speechie opens?
One email when virtual appointments open across Ontario. No obligation, unsubscribe any time.
Join the waitlistNeed help now? Ontario has free options.
Children not yet in school can self-refer to the Preschool Speech and Language Program. No doctor, no fee.
Find your local program