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How it works

Your child decides what happens next, however the word comes out.

A character asks a question, your child answers it, and the game does what they said. A round runs thirty to ninety seconds, and nothing in it is marked right or wrong.

A round

A round is these four things, in this order.

  • A picture with its word printed under it, and below that a fuel gauge with a rocket more than half way along it.
  • A round green monster smiling just after copying a sound back, with the next sound to make printed large below him and a line describing the shape the mouth makes.
  • A street of houses built out of shapes, with the shapes to find offered underneath and the one just named confirmed.
  • A meadow with a cat, a pig, a chick, a bird, a butterfly and an apple in it, the one just named shown in a speech bubble, and tabs for two more scenes.

  1. A character asks your child for something

    Tavi asks where the rocket should go today: the red planet, the ring world or the rock moon.

  2. Your child answers

    Out loud if they can. 11 of the 28 games take a tap instead, so a child with no words yet has a week of their own to play.

  3. The rocket goes

    Your child says “the wed planet” and Tavi’s ship leaves for the red planet, right then. Nobody mentions how it sounded.

  4. Next week quietly changes

    The app listens on the phone itself, and the sound never leaves it or gets saved. What is kept is a list of which games to try next week, and your child never sees it.

See my child’s first week

Where they play

The games are spread across 5 places.

A place is somewhere to be, not a level to pass. Your child picks which one to be in, and the games waiting there are the ones their plan already asked for.

  • Star Harbor

  • Adventure Wilds

  • Creature Cove

  • Maker Meadow

  • Home Base

Where to start

Three minutes, and you’ll know what to do tonight.

Say Yay is practice, not therapy. It sits alongside a speech-language pathologist and does not diagnose — if you are waiting on an appointment, keep the appointment.

See my child’s first week

Every game plays in a browser today, with nothing to download. The plan costs nothing. The games are $129 a year or $19 a month, and you have 30 days to get it back.