Today I want to share some quick and easy speech therapy games with you. The last months of school sometimes seem to be the busiest. Between last minute evaluations and progress reports, I’m too busy to spend a lot of time treatment planning.
Pinterest is ah-mazing and you know I love a good TPT product. But sometimes you just need to show up for work, grab a card deck and focus on cuing your patient and collecting as much data as you can.
Super Simple Speech Therapy Games:
Messed up Card Deck
Do you hate it when your card decks get turned around? I used to try to sort the deck quickly at the beginning of the session so that it was separated into initial, medial and final positions. I’ve got a pretty good strategy for keeping your card decks organized.
For this activity, you don’t have to worry about how organized your deck is.
Here’s how to play. You are going to be flipping over cards. Your students have to say the word/phrase sentence while doing an action. They pick the action based on the card’s orientation.
You get to save time worrying about how your card decks are set up. Your students are generally pretty excited and go through the whole deck. Have them say each word 5 times and you’ve gotten over 100 repetitions (320 in an individual session). It’s easy to change the activities to make the game seem new and different.
Disappearing Card Trick
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The only prep you need for this activity is to pick up a magic change bag. I purchased mine for 20.00 in Vegas last summer as a gift for my son. You can pick them up online for 10-12.00.
Magic tricks are popular with most of my students up through middle school. The bag comes with a set of scarves-but I’ve used it with picture cards or objects with the targeted sounds. Place the card in the bag-say some magic words (usually container your client or student’s sound) and flip a hidden switch under the handle. The card disappears.
I usually start by having one card to get them hooked. Then we do sets of five cards practicing each card at the level where they are working. I might have them say their “magic word” with the card for extra practice before making the card disappear. For example, “Abracadabra Brake” for BR blends or “Au Revoir Red Ranger” for prevocalic /r/. Technically not a magic word but I’ve never had anyone complain about it. After a few more sets of cards, I teach them how to do the trick and we continue working on their sounds. You can even have them show someone else the trick while practicing their sounds to work on carryover of skills to other people.
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Switcheroo and My Card your card
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End of the Year card deck activities
Next week, I am posting my last super simple post for the year-a video showing two very silly activities I like to use with my clients.
QUESTION: I love to use super simple, very silly card games in therapy. What is your favorite GO TO activity that you use?
