Five Familiar Games for Sneaky Speech Therapy

#2: I Spy

You know, it's the one where you:

Like this:

Sneakily strengthens:

• Receptive language
• Expressive language
• Deductive reasoning

Five ways to tweak it:

1. To focus on receptive language (listening skills), have your child be the "spyer" more frequently than the guesser.
   
   
2. To focus on expressive language (oral skills), have your child be the "guesser" more frequently than the "spyer."
   
   
3. To focus on categories, choose items only by color -- "I spy something that's blue" -- or shape -- "I spy something that's square" -- or function -- "I spy something you use to write."
   
   
4. To focus on phonics, describe items by the sound they start with: "I spy something that starts with the 'f' sound.
   
   
5. To focus on vocabulary, use items from your child's reading list in your "spied" things and guesses.

#1: "I Went to ..."
#3: Twenty Questions
#4: Tongue Twisters
#5: Silly Songs

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