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Keeping preschoolers engaged and working on their speech goals can sometimes be challenging. They are movers and shakers with tiny attention spans. That’s why having speech therapy games for preschoolers can make all the difference when planning your sessions. Games can help you prepare efficiently while keeping your preschool friends engaged for longer in the session. I will share speech therapy games that are easy to adapt for many goals.
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For preschoolers with turn-taking goals and struggling with waiting too long, using quick turn games helps them learn the concepts quicker with fewer meltdowns.
Share your favorite speech therapy games for preschoolers that have quick turns in them in the comments!
If you love doing play-based speech therapy but struggle to remember targets for articulation, verbs, vocabulary, adjectives, basic concepts, carrier phrases, and wh-questions, use these cheat sheets with 45 of your favorite toys and games to reduce brain fatigue when following your student’s lead with play. Each toy companion has 10 ways to use the toy and evidence-based practices when doing play-based learning in your sessions.
SLP Mommy of Apraxia shared some of her most popular speech therapy games for preschoolers that keep kids motivated while practicing targets!
On the hunt for speech therapy games for preschoolers that like to move their body and struggle with doing table top activities? These next two games will help you have productive speech therapy sessions while keeping your preschoolers moving and grooving.
9. Found It! Smart Scavenger Hunt – Use these cards in your speech room or outdoors to find things that start with a certain letter, rhyme with a word or is a certain color. Once they find the item, have them identify if the item has their speech sound or not. Then, they have to practice a speech word 5-10x. As a bonus, try to have the student make a sentence with their item and the speech word for a silly sentence. You can adapt this game for describing, wh-questions, AAC CORE words, sentences and more! Having speech therapy games for preschoolers that promote movement is great for your student’s sensory systems.
10. Pancake Pile Up – is a fun way to get students moving across the speech room while working on skills. You can work on turn-taking, first and last, AAC CORE words more, go, help, verbs stack, carry, bring, and following a pattern. You can put speech or language cards in front of the students pancake plate to practice before they can take a pancake across. Pancake Pile Up naturally works on teach across, go/stop, waiting, sharing and how to win/lose a game.
Do you have a favorite speech therapy game for preschoolers you love to use in your play-based speech therapy sessions? Share how you use it to cover speech and language goals in the comments. It’s always great to hear from other SLPs how they use preschool speech therapy games in their sessions to add more tools to our materials stash.
