What you'll accomplish
By the end of this guide, you'll have a reliable system for generating custom therapy materials — word lists, minimal pairs, practice passages, story stems, social scripts, and parent activity sheets — using ChatGPT. Instead of spending 30-60 minutes per session hunting through TpT or rebuilding the same types of materials from scratch, you'll generate exactly what you need in 2-3 minutes.
What you'll need
- A ChatGPT account at chatgpt.com (free plan works for most material generation)
- Knowledge of your patient's current therapy targets and goals
- Time needed: 15 minutes to learn the system; 2-5 minutes per material set thereafter
- Cost: Free; ChatGPT Plus ($20/mo) gives faster responses and GPT-4o access if free tier is slow
How-To Guide: Build Your Therapy Material Library with ChatGPT
Step 1: Create your ChatGPT account
Go to chatgpt.com and click Sign up. Use your email or sign in with Google. The free plan gives you access to GPT-4o-mini, which handles material generation well.
What you should see: The ChatGPT conversation interface — a text input box and your conversation history on the left.