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Best Speech Therapy Toys
Today I’m sharing my list of toys for speech therapy that promote speech and language development that can be great for all children –and just so happen to promote speech and language development.
1.Books
Read with your children. Labeling, estimation, inquiry/responder, guidance, vocabulary, pre-literacy skills, rhyming and letter recognition, shared interest, narrative – just the tip of the ice burg! Top your list of books, particularly if your child is not talking
2. Bubbles
A favorite of mine. It’s good and great fun for any generation! In my speech therapies, one of the tricks is to give children is bubbles. You learn to ask for help almost always early! Bubbles allow children to join others, visually track bubbles, and make it easier to improve the way they learn. The vocabulary in a bottle may be: up/down, fly, blast, open/shut, oh no! And -pop, of course!
3. Doll/Doll House/Tea set
This is also a good way to use for learning basic concepts (e.g., prepositions, proportions, counting, color, shapes, categories). Can you ask questions like “Where is the child?” “Who is there in the kitchen?” The kids can also play with dolls or say “Put the doll into the basket”
4. Animals of Farm/Zoo
For Boys, animals are really fun. Maybe they make all the odd noises? Or maybe only mother and dad want to hear imitate them! Again they are great for playing and verb learning. The dreamer will dream about it all—and the animals will feed, drink, jump, run, dance, gallop and sleep.
5. Potato Head
Classic and Everlasting speech therapy toys. How many versions are available in the Potato Head now? I can’t believe it! Body parts, clothes, colors, and rules are just one thing you’ll learn with Potato Head. Playing answers and questions.
6. Beads lacing
While lacing beads are good practice for high motor skills, eyes and hands coordination, concentration, and visual awareness, they also provide a new method of vocabulary learning, Colors, templates, counting, forms, textures, and planning are easy to practice. Making a necklace or a keychain is so fun!
7. Jigsaws
Puzzles, speech therapy toys, are good for easier vocabulary practice. Learn about full-scale relationships, sort categories, and answer questions. Puzzles also make problem-solving, space understanding, and cognitive thinking simpler. Invite your child to ask for assistance before jumping if you can’t finish your puzzle. Young children should try one-piece also with puzzles!
8. Instruments for music
Early-stage music will help children learn the words’ sounds and meanings. Even babies start to know the sound patterns they can express! The repeat of fun songs and rhymes helps you to understand the sequence of words. Until learning to speak, all children learn to mimic and play musical instruments. Singing and dancing together encourage children to start a game like Simon Says.
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Torch
I know, in the toy aisle I usually don’t find something. Try it, however. Torches are one of the best speech therapy toys for children. They are unbelievable, and mastering the language is a great opportunity! Touches for marionettes in the wall, playing I Spy, Hide and Seek or reading books in the dark can be used.
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Play Dough
The way out, home-made or from the store, is Play Dough! That’s much more than when I was a kid! The resources that are available with the Play-Doh sets are now what I really want to create language scissors, rollers, cookie cutters, spirals, etc. The verbs here can be: cutting, rolling, smashing, etc. There are so many good options for words.
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Go!
Cars, lorries, boats, and trains are also helping as speech therapy toys. These are my go-to-verb toys. “It’s everything! Go Go! Go! Go Go! Go! “Delayed children are typically our first term, and they are driven by something more than hunting the car around the house. “Stop, quick, slow, bustle, choice, beep, crash, whoaaa” are great early words as well. With such toys, it is easy to practice to learn prepositions and adjectives, to follow/give orders, and to communicate socially.
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Blocks
Construction toys are brain toys. Children learn to solve problems, to organize their hands and eyes, cause and effect, size and shape, balance, count, the vision of space, teamwork, weight, prepositions, colors, literature, etc. I have only seen an amazing language practice when I take the plain old wooden blocks out.
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Ride/Pull Toys Climber / Tunnel / Toys
We know that in comparable parts of the brain motor growth and cognitive development occur, so they learn while children are running! It’s good to follow and take guidelines – “go through the tunnel and the sofa! In one home, you don’t generally have too many of these toys, so it’s another way to connect well.
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Sorting Form
This is the preparation of Heaven! Out, down, down, down down. Not to mention the basic language of the accompanying percentages, colors, and numbers. They are useful for the permanence of artifacts and for babies and take risks of choking into account.
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Couplers to nest/stack
The stacking cups are another major open-ended toy. You should concentrate on problem-solving in order to build high towers by stacking or learning sizes by nesting. Under cups, you can hide toys from smaller players and play hide and seek.’ They were all drop-in/out In/out! Colors, sizes, counting, counting. The vocabulary building is not limited.
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Learning Tower/Stepstool
Normally, nothing else is a toy, but I assure you that your child will learn. Children live in a world very adult, so when we talk about what we see they don’t always understand our perspectives. Kids with a simple phase school will better learn the language skills when they are brought into our level. My child personally learns a lot of language in the kitchen. You can use a huge learning opportunity for moving soups, cut vegetables, roll-out cookies (with child-safe knives/scissors), or just give mom the recipe directions by pointing to pictures.
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Balls
We can’t forget verbs when we learn languages. Words such as go, bounce, pass, catch, etc. are included in ball-playing. “When the children are like my children, predictions are also easy here when the ball rebounds ‘on the hoop’ or behind the door or the TV. Tactile words (such as rough, smooth, and bumpy) and scale can also be targeted when you have more than one. Turn and social networking are also more relevant skills learned with balls when rolling the ball back and forth.
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Toys in Water
Water is a natural linguistic motivator, either outside or in the shower! You definitely don’t need much when playing in the water, but you can use kitchen utensils like cups, spoons, and sponge boxes to develop your vocabulary and fun. Verbs can naturally be “splash, scoop, verse, squirt” and “purple and wipe.” Take kiddo to the back, give them a bucket of water with a paint bucket = language, and spend hours playing!
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Mirror
Babies love mirrors as they open up their worlds to new perceptions and suggestions. Of course, the reflection changes as you walk. That’s the greatest motivational toy! Mirrors help kids of all ages think about their bodies, facial expressions, or even branded emotions.
Traditional Speech therapy Toys
In nature, traditional or conventional toys often appear to be more open-ended. Here are some examples of simple conventional toys, open-ended:
- Blocks of wood
- LEGOS
- Cars, buses, toys for transport (they don’t have to make noise! That’s what your kid is for. Take out the batteries!)
- Easy train tracks and trains (we have NO batteries in the wooden package. But I have a plastic set to use with customers WITH and without batteries. Let’s be truthful.. it’s fun to see the trains move around the track sometimes!)
- Play in the kitchen and play with food
- Farm Collection or other animal sets that fit the needs of your child (no noisy ones!) (dinosaurs, for example)
- Home of Dolls
- Head of Mr. Potato
- Play with Dough
- Clothes to cover-up
- Set of Tools
- Set of Teacups
- Baby doll/blanket for kids
Also, read speech therapy evaluation for speech and language development.
