Let’s be honest, who doesn’t love a good family game night? A little friendly competition, some yummy snacks and, of course, fun! Games are exciting, motivating, and best of all, they stimulate language development for toddlers and children without even realizing it! There are many board games that are used in speech therapy to encourage the development of speech, language, and social skills. You can work on everything from learning how to take turns, to categorising, making inferences, social skills, and oral narratives (i.e. story telling). Grab one of the following speech board games for your next family game (and learning!) night!

19 Speech Board Games Chosen by a Speech Therapist

These first few speech therapy board games are perfect for toddlers who are just learning to play games as they are not language heavy. These games are great for promoting skills such as joint attention, turn-taking, cause and effect, commenting, and learning basic vocabulary and concepts (i.e. on, off, in, out, next). Some of these games introduce letter, shape and number concepts as well.

• Sneaky, Snacky, Squirrel by Educational Insights (Ages 3+)
• Frankie’s Food Truck Fiasco by Educational Insights (Ages 4+)
• Frida’s Fruit Fiesta by Educational Insights (Ages 4+)
• Hoot, Owl, Hoot by Peaceable Kingdom (Ages 4+)
• Feed the Woozle by Peaceable Kingdom (Ages 3+)
• Pop-Up Pirate by TOMY (Ages 4+)
• Pop the Pig by Goliath Games (Ages 4+)
• Zingo by Think Fun (Ages 4+)

The next few games support turn-taking and overall social skills, but delve a little deeper into specific language skills.

Categorising

• Spot It! by Blue Orange (Ages 7+)
• Scattegories Junior (Ages 8+)
• Speedeebee by Blue Orange (Ages 8+)
• Rally Up by Blue Orange (Ages 8+)
• HedBanz by Spin Master (Ages 7+)

Following Directions

• Hullabaloo by Cranium (Ages 4+)
• Cat in the Hat, I Can Do That! by Wonder Forge (Ages 4+)
• Roll and Play by Think Fun (Ages 18 months+)
• Ring It! by Blue Orange (Ages 5+)

Story Telling

• Rory’s Story Cubes by Gamewright (Ages 5+)
• Tell Tale by Blue Orange (Ages 5+)

Grab a game and have some fun! 

Find More of Our Speech Therapist’s Favorite Activities in the NAPA Blog:

• Speech Therapy Toys We Love
• Pragmatic Language Skills: 25 Conversation Starters for Kids
• Activities for Prelinguistic Skills
• 3 Activities to Promote Oral Language Development

About NAPA Centre

NAPA offers speech therapy to children of all ages to address delays and disorders in expressive/receptive language, articulation, oral motor dysfunction, apraxia of speech, social language, fluency, feeding and swallowing, and cognitive skills. Contact us today for more information!