Looking for speech therapy ideas? These activities are great for speech therapists, teachers, caregivers, or accent coaches. The activities are organized by context level, from short utterances (isolation/syllables, phrases, sentences) to long utterances (reading passages and spontaneous speech). These speech therapy activities can be used to address speech and language goals as well as accent modification goals.
You’ll find a variety of creative and functional therapy ideas on this page. Be sure to check back often as we continue to add new speech therapy activities to this growing list.
Isolation & Syllables(Sound level)
1. Drill
2. Negative practice
3. Auditory discrimination
4. Over-correction
5. Use as a warm-up for other activities
SingleWords
1. Drill
2. Negative practice
3. Auditory discrimination
4. Over-correction
5. Have the client generate a list of words they commonly use or have difficulty with
6. Use as a warm-up for other activities
7. Play a memory game
8. Have the client say a set of numbers (e.g., odds, events, set of 10 that includes target)
Phrases (2-4 words)
1. Have the client generate a list of phrases they commonly use or have difficulty with
2. Read idioms
3. Have the client brainstorm phrases that will be used in a given social situation
4. Think of 3 phrases to use tomorrow
5. Practice phrases to greet or say farewell to others
Sentences(5+ words)
1. Have the client generate a list of commonly used statements
2. Have the client brainstorm sentences to use in a given social scenario
3. Read lines from the text one at a time
4. Give directions to complete a task, one step at a time
5. State demographic information using a full sentence (i.e., My name is ____. My birthday is ____.)
