Top 7 Toys for Play Based Speech Therapy

There are a lot of great toys out there and it was so hard to choose just 7, but we did it!

These toys can be used to target speech sounds, expressive language goals, receptive language goals and more! 

Top Seven Toys:

1) Surprise Toys - kids love the anticipation of these toys and you can target verbs, describing, spatial concepts, plurals, and core words!

2) Puzzles - There are so many ways to use this closed-ended toy in an open-ended way to target temporal concepts, core words, verbs, and following directions.

3) Play Scenes - Little People Sets, Shopkins Toys, and Littlest Pet Shop are all 'play scenes' and are a perfect companion to use with figurines, mini objects, and cars. You can target almost any goal, including spatial concepts, following directions, verbs, and describing.

4) Critter Clinic - This toy is so versatile and can be used in compliment with so many themes to target vocabulary, expanding utterances, concepts, plurals, and verb tenses.

5) Toy Food - A classic! Target describing, plurals, pronouns, categories, and vocabulary! 

6) Little People - Animals, People and Vehicles?! Yes, please. These are so versatile and can be used in so many ways to target following directions, pronouns, possessive 's, core words, verbs, and more! 

7) Building Toys - Lego, Magformers, K'nex, Blocks are all perfect for play based therapy because they are open ended. You can use them to target spatial concepts, vocabulary, following directions, requesting and more! 

We teach exactly how to use these toys to target a huge variety of goals with practical video demonstrations and handouts to help you out in the Ultimate Play Based Speech Therapy Course! For more information check out www.playbasedspeechtherapycourse.com.