10 Simple and Fun Loving Speech Language Therapy Games to Play

While enhancing speech and language skills of your child, you will really thank some of those fun loving games that are very helpful to treat any child with special needs.

For speech language therapy in Dubai, many parents and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use these speech language therapy games. Specially designed for hearing impaired or autistic children, these games and other toys or products enhance their learning skills and help them to overcome communication impediments.

Using some sets of fun filled games for your speech therapy sessions is an exciting way to build good speech and language skills in children. Here comes a list of 10 simple and fun loving speech language therapy games that parents, teachers or therapist use for speech and language development in children.

1. Lids N Lizards

This game consists of small plastic lizards, tin lids, and round picture magnets. Magnets are of five categories: food, clothing, animals, transportation, and some home items. It helps in developing auditory and visual memory skills of children as they play with vocabulary to describe and categorize lizards.

2. Honey Bee Tree

It is a popular speech therapy game used for children of age 3 year and up. Players pull the leaves from the tree trying not to drop any bee from the honey pot. The colorful pieces of the game improve visual skills of children and encourage them to interact.

3. Don’t Break the Ice

This is a very old game used in speech therapy of children worldwide. It improves impulse control and patience development in children. The best part is to describe the whole concept of the game to children and judge their understanding skills. It is played with a set of plastic 'ice blocks', and a polar bear standing on the larger block.

4. Feed the Woozle Game

It is a cooperative game in which all players of age 3 to 6 years play together to feed the hungry Woozle. It builds confidence and self-esteem in children. They learn to share and to work as a team.

5. Chuggington’s Traintastic Cargo Game

With this simple and fun loving speech and language therapy game children learn pattern matching, different shapes, numbers and colors. It is a multi-leveled game and has many options to play. It is used for articulation therapy of children aging 3 years and up.

6. What’s In the Cat’s Hat? 

In this easy to play Dr. Seuss What’s In the Cat’s Hat by I Can Do That Games children are given pictures with simple questions to describe the things. It is played with activity cards and a hat. It is a physically and socially engaging game that works on sensory skills, deductive reasoning and auditory memory of children.

7. UNO Moo Farm Animal Matching Game

This is designed for pre-schoolers to help them talk, build vocabulary, learn directions and matching skills. The game includes animals, barn and farmer figures. Farm animals have to come out of the barn to play UNO.

8. Laundry Jumble Game by Educational Insights

This speech and language therapy game is for children 4 years old and up. It helps them to recognize clothing items for real life. It is a 3D game containing animal graphics on cards, clothing and a dryer. It develops motor skills, tactile exploration and learning in children.

9. Busy Town by Richard Scary

This game is played by exploring a busy town and looking for different things there. It includes variety of objects needed to be found by players. Every time a child says "I found it!" after finding the object. It promotes teamwork, attention to detail, object identification and social learning in children of 3 to 6 years old.

10. I Built It! Memory Match+Tic Tac Toe 

Speech therapists use this game to develop vocabulary, concepts, facial expressions and emotions in children. As the game includes endless possibilities to play for children who can customize it with their personalized pictures and drawings, it is best used for their articulation therapy. It is a memory matching game played with upside down placed cards and then to turn them to find a match.

Parents and teachers can bring any of these simple and fun loving speech language therapy games to play with their children and students. Many speech and language development schools, organizations and companies like Kalimati Speech & Communication Center are providing best speech language therapy in Dubai. They have added a number of must have games in their speech therapy.