Best Games for Speech & Language Development

I’ve made a commitment to myself to play more games and board games with my speech therapy clients at the beginning of 2020. I find that more and more, kids are not playing games at home with their families so the use of games gives me maximum engagement. Many...

Social Skills Goals

There are many different areas of speech and language development we work on as SLPs. In my work, I see many children with needs in building their expressive language skills and speech sound production. But SLPs work on receptive language, social language (aka...

Joint Attention

What is joint attention? Joint attention (JA) is the sharing of an experience between a child and their communication partner. It is also called shared attention and occurs when two people focus on the same thing. Joint attention can look and sound like many things....

Playing With Purpose: Candy Land

I use games all the time during my individual speech therapy sessions. They are a fantastic tool for speech, language, and social skill development in young children. Candy Land is a particular favorite of mine. I don’t have a great memory, but I do remember the...

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