Five Familiar Games for Sneaky Speech Therapy

#3: Twenty Questions

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 observation, limit the person, place, or thing to something in plain sight.
   
   
2. To focus on deduction, use a chalkboard or write-erase board to jot down all the "clues" as they come, so your child can remember and use them to figure out the answer.
   
   
3. To focus on conversational skills, have your child answer the "yes" or "no" questions in a complete sentence: "No, it isn't a book."
   
   
4. To focus on expressive language, allow questions that are not "yes" or "no" and have your child answer in complete sentences: "What color is the thing?" "The thing I am thinking of is red."
   
   
5. To focus attention, have all persons, places and things chosen pertain to a subject your child is intensely interested in; for example, if your child loves cars, you could make him guess makes and models of cars, people who work with cars, places you take a car, or other car-related terms, and have him think of the same for you: "I'm thinking of something that has to do with cars."

#1: "I Went to ..."
#2: I Spy
#4: Tongue Twisters
#5: Silly Songs

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