Celebrating 20 years of SCIP · 2006–2026
SCIP
SCIP Speech
Features Approaches Pricing
Sound Contrasts in Phonology
Where research
meets practice.
Bring sound-contrast treatment into your browser. Build word sets around your student’s targets, then quickly move from planning to practice in one focused workspace.
A focused workspace for treatment
Celebrating 20 years of bringing phonological research into clinical practice.
SCIP / STUDIO
Treatment planning
STUDENT MFS
A plan for the next sound.
M
Multiple Oppositions
Minimal Pairs
ERROR SOUND
/t/
→
TARGET SOUNDS
/k/ /s/ /ʃ/
WORD SET
CONTRASTS
tea
key · see · she
tin
kin · sin · shin
take
cake · sake · shake
Illustrative word sets
Build a treatment →
20 years. A foundation in research.
First published in 2006 with support from a $1 million NIH grant, SCIP grew from the research of Dr. A. Lynn Williams. For 20 years, SCIP has helped bring phonological research into clinical practice for children with speech sound disorders.
2006–2026 · Celebrating SCIP’s 20th anniversary
From caseload to card set
A clearer path
through your session.
Your clinical decisions lead the way. The studio brings the working details together.
01 / ORGANIZE
Start with your student.
A workspace for students and groups, with a treatment choice for each member.
02 / PERSONALIZE
Choose targets with SCIP Assist.
SCIP Assist helps clinicians choose therapy targets. Refine word sets around your student’s needs, with your clinical judgment guiding the plan.
03 / PRACTICE
Make room for treatment.
Responsive cards and accessible session controls keep the treatment activity in focus.
A familiar clinical foundation
Different contrasts.
Purposeful choices.
SCIP is grounded in research on four contrastive intervention approaches: Multiple Oppositions, Minimal Pairs, Maximal Oppositions, and Treatment of the Empty Set. Vowel Contrasts extends the options available to clinicians.
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Multiple Oppositions
One error sound contrasted with multiple targets.
Minimal Pairs
A focused contrast between two words.
Maximal Oppositions
A known sound contrasted with a maximally distinct unknown sound.
Treatment of the Empty Set
Two maximally distant sounds that are both unknown to the child.
Vowel Contrasts
Word sets that contrast the vowel.
Looking ahead
Twenty years of innovation. A new chapter.
Meet SCIP Speech, our new web version, and SCIP Assist, which helps clinicians choose therapy targets. SCIP Speech and SCIP App for iPad share the same enhancements, bringing continued innovation to both platforms. Subscription details and launch timing will be shared here.
Pricing to be announced
Subscriptions coming soon
SCIP
SCIP Speech
Sound Contrasts in Phonology
Celebrating 20 years · 2006–2026
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