I've got just over one week till spring break and everyone is getting antsy. This is the time for very interactive therapy ideas. When playing turn taking board games, memory and Go Fish no longer work, it's time to use technology. For therapists without an iPad - such as myself, sadly - there's Quia for speech.
Quia is a website with games for every, I mean literally every, academic subject. All the free games are available here for all subjects.
Speech related games include various aspects of semantics - categories, definitions, compare/contrast. It has grammar - irregular tenses, morphological endings, subject-verb agreement. There are wh-comprehension questions, pragmatics and fluency. Then, there's a whole collection of articulation elicitation games.
Each subcategory has different types of games. Some are pop-up questions that are like quizzes. There's "Challenge Board" which is essentially Jeopardy:
Rags-to-Riches, a version of millionaire with choices:
And Battleship where the student plays against the computer. Every time the student hits the computer's ship, a question or prompt appears:
Quia is great for therapy activities but it also works for carryover at home. An interactive game is more likely to get done than a worksheet. Currently, I don't know of any way to keep track of whether students complete certain tasks, but for that you can simply involve parents/caregivers.
Here is a list of speech/language Quia pages:
Quia for English (browse through to differentiate English class vs. speech therapy activities)
And feel free to type anything into the search bar to find related games.
Did I miss any? Please leave comments with links!
Diana
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