These games include both a verbal and a physical element. When trying to attain a behavioral goal, physical activities or games can lower the intensity and pressure of mastering a new speech goal and therefore facilitate attaining that goal. For example, when the aim of the session is that the child speaks to a classmate for the first time, it is helpful to put it in the framework of a game, such as throwing a ball and saying your name as you throw it. Here are a few games that can help the child within a treatment plan of small steps leading to improved speech and social communication.
Physical – Movement Games
- Blind man’s buff
- Red-light, green light
- Duck duck goose
- Color tag
- Blind man’s buff
Ball Games:
- Throwing a ball and counting forwards or backwards, or saying words according to categories
- Maintaining huge confetti balloons afloat; each time a participant pushes the balloon, a word must be spoken
- Throwing a ball between participants, each thrower says the name of the person to whom the recipient must throw the ball.
- Throwing a ball between participants, each thrower says the name of the person from whom he received the ball.
- Throwing a ball between participants, each thrower says a sentence or word in a story told sequentially by participants
