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101 games to play to practise speech sounds

Well, maybe not quite 101, but lots!…

If your child or a child you are working with is having speech sound therapy, it won’t take you long to realise that there is a lot of repetitive practise involved!  It’s very likely that at some point you’ll be given a set of pictures or a particular sound or set of words to practise with your child.  The tricky bit is keeping this motivating for your child (and you!)  The best way to do this is to play as many games as you can.  This post is all the ideas that we could think of games to play to practise speech sounds (part one – there are too many for one post!)

First of all, you will probably have been given a set of pictures by your child’s speech and language therapist.  However, if you haven’t and you want a set of pictures of words for the sounds you have been asked to practise with your child, you can find some free to download here or here .

Now without further ado, the game ideas.  I’ve split these into sections to help you find what you want:-

Games to play with just a set of pictures

• Ask your child to say the words, then post them into a postbox. If you don’t have a postbox, use a cardboard box to make one.
• Hide the pictures around the room for the child to find and say (a great game for kids who don’t like sitting still). If you’re working at sentence level, you could then ask your child to say where they found the picture.
• Spread the pictures out on the floor. Throw a beanbag or rolled up sock and ask your child to say the word that it landed on.
• Put the pictures in a bag. Ask your child to pull them out one at a time and say them.
• Put 4-5 pictures on the table. Ask the child to close their eyes and then take one away.  Can your child tell you which one has gone?
• Spread the pictures across the floor (or even one on each stair). Get your child to jump from one to the other and say the words as they go.
• Stick the pictures up around the room. Say a word and get your child to run to the one you said.  Then ask them which one they ran to.  Otherwise get them to give instructions to you or another child to do the running!
• If you have two sets of pictures, play a game of memory pairs. Use 6 or so pairs of pictures, mix them up and spread them out face down on the table.  Take turns with your child to turn over two pictures and say them.  If they are the same, keep them.  If they are different turn them back over.  The winner is the one with the most pairs.
• Lay several pictures out on the table. Describe one of them and see if your child can tell you which one you were talking about.
• Find a soft indoor ball and a bucket or bin. Ask the child to say a word and then throw the ball into the bucket/bin.  Older children often enjoy moving the bucket a little further away each time and seeing if they can still get the ball in.
• For a child who likes cars, lay out a long line of pictures like a road (or a track for a train). Get your child to drive their favourite vehicle over the cars and say the words as he drives over them.
• Buy a small magnet and make a fishing rod with a stick and a piece of string. Attach paper clips to the pictures and see if your child can “fish” for the words.
• If you are working at sentence level – split the pictures into two piles. Turn over two and see if the child can make up a silly sentence with those two words in.
• Again, for sentence level work, turn over two pictures and try to find a link between them. EG  a car and a key go together because you open the car with a key.

Shop-bought games

You don’t need to buy anything special to practise speech sounds.  However, you may find you have games like this in the house already, or want to buy something new.  Basically any simple turn-taking game can be good to make speech work more interesting.  It needs to be a game with short turns to that you spend more time practising than you do focussed on the game!  The idea is that whatever game you’re using, you ask the child to say their word, sentence or string of words/ sounds before they take a turn.  Here are some games I’ve found that children of different ages enjoy.

• Stacking Robots

• Any simple board game like Snakes and Ladders or this lovely variation of it from Orchard Toys.

• Jigsaw puzzles

Read part 2 of this post here – ideas for games without picture cards, games for particular sounds and apps.

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27 Free Online Games for Speech Therapy You Need to Know About

Online games that are quick to play are perfect for speech teletherapy.

Like many SLPs right now, I’m a newly minted teletherapist due to school closures during the COVID 19 pandemic. After three months of diving into speech therapy telepractice this spring, I quickly realized that I need more tricks up my sleeve to keep my students engaged with me online! Thirty minutes of pure drill time wasn’t cutting it. It wasn’t long before they started looking at me with eyes that said “What else have you got?”

And…like a bunch of you, I’ll be headed back to school seeing my students online, at least for now. So it’s time to gather up some great resources to keep participation and interest high!

It’s important to mix it up with a variety of activities to keep students engaged during online speech therapy sessions.

Especially the youngest ones. Gee- in that respect it’s not unlike in-person sessions, is it?

I may have 2-3 different activities during a session. including books, real games (I take their “turn” for them in front of the camera), puppets, toys for the younger crowd, riddles, and worksheets we could draw or write on with annotation tools. I also love Boom Cards  and digital resources like interactive pdfs. I like to get my kiddos up and moving sometimes too. We all need that!

Online games are a favorite activity for my speech therapy students.

No prep for you, fun for them. If you are using a platform like Zoom where you can give your students control, any of these games are great. If you can’t give students control, look at the online board games that automatically advance. You can click the dice for your students.

I keep a document of links on my desktop so I can head over to a great online game quickly during a session. Ready for a list to make your teletherapy planning easier? Here you go!

Here are some of my favorite sites for engaging, quick-play online games.

I’ve played a lot of games y’all, and I’ve listed games from these sites that load easily, are quick to play, motivating, and won’t take away too much therapy time! You may want to look through the main sites and see if there are more games you love.

Pink Cat Studio   3 fun games that you can use open-ended or for words, rhyme, and more

Fun Brain   Tons of engaging, quick-play games kids will love

Toy Theatre    Fun games, and lots of extras like dice and spinners

For little ones, you’ll also want to check out:

ABCya   Lots of “Make-a” games and holiday games for little ones…Some games require Flash Player. PBS Kids   Simple games with characters kids like such as Clifford, Sesame Street, or Arthur.

Happy Clicks   I love this site of super-easy activities for very young learners

Easiest online games for early learners:

Make an Icecream  build your Ice cream

Fruit Fall  Help the farmer catch the fruit in his basket.

Helipopper  The monster is flying with a helicopter hat. Pop the balloons that match the color of his hat. Requires paying attention to changing hat color.

Open-ended online games for all grades

Desert Dive:  Big Blue and his friend are on a see-saw, drag Big Blue up, and drop him to make his friend splash into the pool.

Spaceship Maze  Guide your spaceship through the maze. Starts easy and each maze becomes a bit more challenging.

Turtle Wax  Raise and lower the slide, then let the turtle slide down. Can you make him hit the target?

Play Tic Tac Toe   play the computer or another player

Online board games:

These games automatically play when you click the dice. fast and easy.

Snakes and Ladders  Roll the Dice and your game piece automatically moves. Play with 1-2 players, or establish teams in a group.

The Goose Game: Roll the dice to advance. Some spaces are luck, some are not! Up to 6 players

These games require you to move the pieces. Some are strategy games best for older kids.

Checkers  for 1-2 players or teams

BackGammon strategy game for older kids

Reversi Another strategy game for older kids. 1-2 players.

Games that are a bit more challenging:

Treasure Dive: The diver must avoid the sea creatures as he collects the gold from the treasure chest.

Word Turtle Create your own word search. Two levels of difficulty. Greate for articulation generating synonyms, antonyms, or category members Visual Memory Puzzle Study the colored circles on the grid before they disappear. Can you re-create the pattern? Becomes progressively harder.

Poki Cut the Rope Feed the monster strategy game

Online dice and spinners for any game

Toy theater is great for these. These can be a game in themselves. Who will rack up the most points? Throw the dice or spin a spinner.

Dice:  Colorful online dice in many shapes and sizes

Spinners; Choose spinners for either colors or numbers. You can choose how many spaces on the spinner too!

Online games are great to use in in-person therapy too.

Play them on a  tablet, computer or project them on a whiteboard for instant engagement. Huge bonus- you don’t have to lug these around as you travel from school to school or setting!

Don’t forget to pin this post to save it for later when you need a fresh, motivating activity for your kiddos.

Are you still needing to provide send-home materials, either printed or virtually?

I hope you’ve found some games you and your students love. Please leave a comment if you’ve found any more terrific open-ended games we should know about!

Stay well, my friends,

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Are you looking for free articulation games for speech therapy? Do you want those free articulation games for speech therapy online and easy to use?

“YES” said every Speech Therapist ever! Working on speech sounds is a speech therapy target for the vast majority of speech-language pathologists. And yes – using articulation cards to practice target words can be a great strategy for articulation practice, but how much MORE fun are speech therapy sessions when we are using online speech therapy games as an articulation activity?! 

Using online speech therapy activities with children with articulation disorders is beneficial for so many reasons. 

• It is a fun way to practice different sounds and hit multiple therapy targets.
• Online games can be used to engage students during in-person sessions.
• Interactive games are a great tool to use for distance learning.
• There are so many different articulation activities speech therapists can use – your speech sessions will be varied and engaging! 

So many great reasons to play online articulation games! Need one now? Speech Therapy Store has got you covered with freebies to make therapy planning easier! We created a digitally interactive Articulation I Spy Game with real life pictures! Make sure to download this freebie below!

Articulation Games for Speech Therapy Online

Okay, let’s get right to it! We want to make your life as a speech pathologist so much easier – so we created this master list of the BEST Online Games for Articulation Practice! 

Here are the categories we broke the online articulation games into:

• Picture Reveal + a Tutorial from Melissa
• ​Older Students
• ​Boom Cards
• ​Sentence Level & Conversational Level

Early Intervention

Home practice.

• Online Board Games 
• Best Reinforcement Games

Classic Articulation Games

Below is a list of 35+ free online articulation games for Speech Therapy!

Picture Reveal

Select any picture you want to use from the internet then upload it and choose the number of trials you want your student to complete.

Quia Games Articulation

There are currently over 100 articulation games covering multiple sounds. Play games, such as battleship, hangman, jumbled words, java games, and challenge boards.

Older Students

High School students and middle school students love an online game! Let’s face it – this may be the only way to engage older students sometimes! Here are some fun games for older students on your caseload! 

• FREE Articulation Games on Baamboozle by FX Therapies LLC is a game style learning platform to practice articulation in a fun and accessible way. Check out some of their free games for your middle school and high school students!
• Harry Potter Articulation Escape Room by a Spoon Full of Speech is a highly rated and fun Happy Potter theme articulation game for middle school students!
• Thanksgiving Hangman with /s/ and /z/ sounds on Quia by Darlene Scheffler is a fun online articulation game! This is engaging for highschoolers!
• Initial S Blends (st, sk, sn) Challenge Board on Quia by Tracy Boyd is a competitive an fun online articulation game to practice S blends with older students.

Boom Cards are a classic game that are a great online resource for the majority of a speech therapist’s caseload. Boom Cards are easily added to lesson plans, are fun for people of all ages and are a great way to increase articulation skills! 

• FREE Old Lady Articulation L blends BOOM Cards™️ for Distance Learning Speech by Jenna Rayburn Kirk is a funny and engaging boom card game to practice L blends on boom cards.
• Talk Like a Pirate /ar/ FREEBIE: Speech Therapy/Articulation + BOOM Cards by Panda Speech is a highly rated and funny and pirate themed articulation game to play with your students!
• Articulation Aquarium BOOM Cards: Initial SP and ST FREEBIE Sample by Panda Speech is an engaging boom card set with an ocean theme to practice initial SP and ST sounds
• Free Articulation Cards and Boom Cards (Cycles & Traditional) by Ausome Speech is an example of the K sound set that is easy to use and clear.
• Free Final S Sound Articulation on the Farm Boom Cards | Speech Therapy by GoldieTalks Speech is a highly rated boom card game that will have your speech students engaged and having fun while practicing the final s sound.

Sentence Level & Conversational Level

Sentence and Conversational level articulation skills are an important next step in your student’s communication skills! Carrier phrases can be used to encourage your students to use their articulation words in different ways. Here are some online resources to practice articulation at a sentence level or higher!

•   FREEBIE Articulation Dots & Boxes Game: SH, CH, & J Speech Sounds-Google Slides™ by Harre SLP is an online google slides game that builds articulation words from word to sentence level.
• Finish a sentence (PowerPoint) by Language Stuff is an online game that prompts sentence level practice of articulation targets.
• Build a K and G Articulation Sentence Scene No Print Freebie   by Beth Sies Creation for SLPs is a highly rated picture scene online that prompts sentence level articulation practice.

Early Intervention plays such an important role for our younger students. Here are some of the best online articulation games to play with the younger students on our caseload!

• FREE Back to School K Articulation Memory Game Boom Cards™ Speech Therapy by Pinwheel Speech Resources is an online memory game that is great for younger students to practice articulation of the K sound!
• Pencil Match Articulation – Freebie by Sublime Speech is a highly rated online pencil match articulation game that is engaging and fun for pre-k to 1st grade.
• *FREE* L Sound – Picture Scenes for Targeting Speech Sounds in Conversations by Little Seeds of Speech is a free articulation picture scene with loaded speech sounds to use in early intervention articulation practice!

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Getting family members involved in language development is a great way to encourage articulation therapy fun! Here are some fun articulation games for your students to play at home to help the correct production of their speech sounds!

• FREE f & v Color By Speech Artic Game – School Theme – Boom Cards™ PPT & Print by Little Speech Shop is a highly rated interactive boom card and powerpoint set that is a great resource to send home and have students practice the F sound!
• /G/ Challenge Games by Quia Tracy Boyd is a great free online resources to send to caregivers to practice at home with their children! Stude

>> CHECK  THIS OUT! At the Speech Therapy Store shop, we have a complete bundle of Weekly Articulation Homework for 10 Months. It is completely done for you and digitally interactive, so simply email the interactive pdf to parents to practice at home, sign off and send back! OVer 600 pages – No print, no Prep! 

Online Board Games

There are so many fun articulation games that mimic a board game style! Here are some of the best online articulation board games! 

• DOG ON A LOG VIRTUAL GAMEBOARDS by Pamela Brooks is a set of Virtual Game boards to use in your articulation practice!
• FREE S and S Blends Caterpillar Board Games Boom Cards Activity Speech Therapy by Pinwheel Speech Resources is a 5 star Caterpillar themed online boardgame to practice S and S blends!
• Candy Craze For Articulation Gameboard /TH/ No Print, Teletherapy by My Teletherapy Room is a free sample of the TH online board! This game is highly rated and a student favorite!

Best Reinforcement Games 

Using Online games is a great way to reinforce correct sound production. Reinforcement games can just be fast games that are fun and quick practice, or it can be a game that has some of the students favorite things! Here are some great reinforcement games for online articulation therapy!

• 4 FREE GAME BOARDS by SLP Helps – Stephanie Tarrant Martin is a highly rated set of reinforcement board games that are all digitally interactive.
• Smarty Pants Animal Race Game for Articulation by Pinkcat Games is a funny online game to use as reinforcement of all positions of Sh, R, R blends, L, L blends and Voiced/Voiceless TH. You can also use this game to practice at Structured Conversation level! 
• Digital Spinners Spinners include Vocalic R, R-Blends, Prevocalic R, S & S-Blends, Z, L & L-BLends, TH, SH, CH, J, F, V, K, G. Created by: Fun in Speech.
• Feed the Shark Articulation by Pink Cat Games is a funny and free game to practice multiple articulation targets. This game is a great way to reinforce multiple sounds with a group!
• Digital Spinners Spinners include Vocalic R, R-Blends, Prevocalic R, S & S-Blends, Z, L & L-BLends, TH, SH, CH, J, F, V, K, G. Created by: Fun in Speech
• Beachball Token Board with 100 Trials Download this Boom Card to your library to practice your articulation words. Created by: Communication CrAZe
• Back to School 100 Trials Hidden Images Download this back to school hidden images to practice 100 articulation trials. Created by: Simply Speaking SLT
• Spring 100 Trials – Great for Teletherapy Download this spring edition to practice 100 articulation trials. Created by: The Digital SLP
• Flag Token Board 50 Trials Download this independence day flag token board to practice 50 articulation trials. Created by: Communication CrAZe
• Fall Articulation Coloring 45 Trials Download this fall articulation coloring to practice 45 articulation trials. Created by: Goldie Talks Speech

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​Speech Pathologists are a creative bunch and we have turned so many classic games into fun speech therapy games. Sometimes as a busy slp, we need just a simple game that is also an online resource. Here are some of those online resources for articulation therapy fun! 

• Online TicTacToe by Simply Speaking Club has an easy to use sound loaded tic tac toe board for multiple sounds!
• /G/ Challenge Games by Quia Tracy Boyd is a great free online resource to challenge students in basic games such as concentration or matching!

SEE ALSO: 917+ Best Free Boom Cards for Speech Therapy

Free Articulation I SPY

I Spy is always an absolute favorite during speech sessions, but we were really struggling with finding clear and interactive I Spy Articulation Worksheets. So, we created these I Spy Game Pages as a freebie for you! Immediate download, digitally interactive AND real life pictures? Win Win Win! We hope you love these! Should we make more?

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Digital Word Search Online Games for Speech Therapy

These digital word search online games are a fun way to target speech sounds. The game will open in your browser on a computer or tablet. These word search games are interactive and self-checking with the speech words shown on the right-hand side. You can target initial position, medial position, final position, or mixed positions.  

Our online games are interactive and fun. Turn your sound on too because many of these games have fun sound effects. The online games open in your browser making them easy to access and use.

DIGITAL WORD SEARCH ONLINE GAMES FOR SPEECH THERAPY

Once you are on the game page you will be able to begin the word search. The word list is on the right. On the left, you will see the letter grid. Search for your speech words in the letter grade and click when you have found a word. If it is a correct selection the letters will flip to reveal a color. If the selection as wrong you will get a red cross. You have 10 lives! Try not to get more than 10 error crosses! 

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15 Games Every SLP Should Know About

Thematic Therapy | Type B SLP Tips September 6th, 2023 7 minute read

No, we aren't just playing games in speech therapy! We're LEARNING ! As SLPs, one of our unique superpowers is that we can pull out ANY game and turn it into therapy! But, there are soo many games out there to choose from that it can be overwhelming to know which ones to get! Check out my list of recommended 15 games every SLP should know about, and how they serve a variety of our students' goals!

Jenga is a perfect, classic game to have in your collection. It's suspense delights many! Students can work on their target skill for each tile pulled from the bottom and placed on the top. Great for extra fine motor practice, too!

(2) Pop The Pig

I bet you guessed this SLP staple would be on the list! Pop The Pig involves feeding the pig burgers until he's too full and pops! Each burger has a number on the bottom to indicate how many times to push his head. These numbers can be the amount of speech sound trials or language targets (ex: The number is 3. Name 3 shapes.)

(3) Shark Bite

Shark Bite includes each player using a fishing rod to pull out a sea animal at a time. If you pull out the wrong one, he snaps! Perfect for an ocean theme or pair with any artic/phono cards!

(4) Ned's Head

Ned's Head is a goofy game where you stick your hand into Ned's ear or mouth to pull out funny objects! Each object has a corresponding card. In the beginning you choose cards and reach inside to try to find the matching object on your card. You can't look inside, you can only feel your way around! Perfect for labeling, describing, adjectives, sizes, and much more!

(5) Crocodile Dentist

This adorable croc needs to see the dentist! (It even has braces!) Find out which tooth is bothering him by pressing down on a tooth inside his mouth. If the croc chomps down on you, you're out, and the last person left wins!  This is a great game for learning about occupations such as dentists or during a jungle theme. Feed him pictures during the game with target words! Use core boards to model "give" and "eat." Because of the chomping action of the game, I love to play this with my students who require lots of movement! It pairs perfectly with  There Was a Crocodile Song by The Learning Station  video where they replace each animal name with its associated movement.

(6) Sneaky Snacky Squirrel

The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel is hungry for acorns! Spin the spinner to see if you'll take, steal, or lose an acorn. The person to fill their log with all of their acorns is the winner. The best part is that there are squirrel tongs to pick up the acorns! (Hello fine motor practice!) Use with a fall or a forest theme. Can be paired with any target per turn! I love to use it as a companion activity to go along with my squirrel-themed books, such as  Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt . 

(7) Rattlesnake Jake

Rattlesnake Jake is protecting a bunch of gold nuggets. Each player takes a turn taking a gold nugget. Whoever has the most gold at the end wins! But watch out, he may lunge at you, forcing you to put back half of the gold nuggets you have. If you get a gold nugget, you get to flip a coin for a chance at it again - great for multiple trials! Use the gold nuggets to cover target words. If your student has to put half of them back, they have to say all of the target words those nuggets were covering. 

(8) Burping Bobby

Burping Bobby is a silly game where you feed stinky food to the hippo until he burps! Each game piece has a number on the back which is great for multiple trials of target words. When Bobby burps, his throat turns green and a vapor comes out. (Don't worry, he doesn't actually stink like a burp- YUCK!) Highly engaging and fun!

(9) Candy Land

Candy Land is a sweet, classic board game! Spin to reach the next color on the game board. First one to reach King Candy's Castle wins! Count the number of spaces it takes to get to the color you spun to determine the amount of trials for your students! Describe, compare, and contrast the different candies and sweets you see in the game. Find speech sound targets using items on the game board - /s/: sweet, ice cream, house, castle, etc. Great alongside a food theme or even a holiday theme with the gingerbread game pieces!

(10) Jumping Jack

Collect as many carrots as you can from Jack by pulling them out of the garden. The right carrot will make him jump up. Catch him to win this fun game! Use the carrot pieces to cover target words or to use as pointers when making sentences. Great alongside an animal, bunny, spring, or Easter theme! I like to play this game after reading a spring or bunny book, such as Too Many Carrots by Katy Hudson .

(11) Pop Up Pirate

Ahoy mateys! Place swords inside the barrel until the pirate pops out! Whoever has the most swords wins. Use with ANY speech/language target. Play this swashbuckling game any time during the year or alongside a pirate theme! (FYI: Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th!)

(12) Banana Blast

Banana Blast involves pulling banana's out from the tree until the monkey jumps up! Use the bananas to cover target words on cards or symbol boards.  Use alongside a jungle or food/fruit theme! The person with the most bananas wins!

(13) Hi Ho! Cherry-O

Another classic staple for your speech therapy game collection! You want to be the first person to pick off all the fruit from your tree and fill your basket! This is perfect for multiple trials of target words and is a great game to start the school year off with since it resembles apple picking!

(14) Cootie Bugs

Create your own cootie bug before the other players create theirs! I love this game because it there are no time constraints, it can last you the whole session! To start the game, you have to roll a 1 to get the body of the bug. Then you have to roll a 2 to get the head of the bug, and so on as you add more body parts to your bug. In order to roll the desired number, this may take many turns, which means MANY trials!! You can target describing and sequencing as you design your cootie bug!

(15) Operation

Rounding out the list with another classic - Operation!  Great for adding fine motor practice!!  Collect money every time you successfully remove an object from the patient with a pair of tongs. The player with the most money wins! Be careful, if the tongs hit the side of the game board, a buzzer will go off and the next player will have a chance to remove the item. Removing items without the buzzer going off is often challenging, making this game last longer and quite possibly filling your session! Describe the removed items, add artic/phono targets, or use with a community helper theme!

There are SO many games than an SLP can use for therapy but these are my favorite!!!

Every single game in this post is featured in my Toy and Game Companion Worksheets in my TPT shop! 

🎲 Use these NO PREP game companion worksheets alongside ANY of your favorite games, toys, and Learning Resources toys!

🎲 They will take you through your entire school year and align with every goal on your caseload!

🎲 Perfect to send home for carryover and for mixed groups!

🎲 Your students will LOVE these quick, simple activities that go along with all of their favorite therapy games!

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