Free Speech Therapy Activities for Conversational Skills
Teaching conversation skills is an important part of communication development and social skills. Use these free speech therapy activities for kids working on conversational skills – including answering questions, asking questions, conversation starters, initiating conversations, conversational turn-taking, and more. Discover developmental stages and online resources as well.
FREE CONVERSATION SPEECH THERAPY ACTIVITIES
Conversation Prompts
Conversation prompts or ice breakers to use with your students in speech therapy or the classroom! Great for social skills groups or individual sessions. Target pragmatic language, articulation, fluency, answering questions, and sentence formulation.
Social Skills Resource Lists
Discover ideas to plan and execute social skills therapy! Includes six pages of information and resources: types of social skills, developmental stages, websites, apps, and games.
Winter WH Questions
Free WH questions for speech therapy and the classroom! Use the questions to work on answering various WH questions, as conversation prompts, in social skills groups, and more. The download contains 20 question strips, plus a digital format with 1 question per page.
St Patrick’s Day Conversation Prompts
Use for conversation starters, creative writing, group discussions, social skills groups, carryover articulation, writing centers, and more in speech therapy or the classroom! A no print option is included that works great for speech teletherapy.
Birthday Party Language Scene
Use the scene and activities to target -wh questions, following directions, answering open-ended questions, formulating sentences, and conversation skills. Send home for homework, and use as no prep or no print activity. And perfect for celebrating birthdays in speech or the classroom!
Caveman and Dinos Barrier Game
Barrier games for speaking and listening skills in speech therapy, ESL, and more! Target many skills: expressive skills (giving directions), receptive skills (following directions), social skills, sentence formation, and storytelling.
Have your student give YOU directions! This requires a whole new level of skills to plan out and use expressive language to accurately describe the pieces and where they are in the scene. This provides opportunities such as clarifying directions.
Farm Interactive Book
The interactive book contains 3 scenes (the farm, inside the barn, and the farm at night) with 10 farm-themed pieces. The book allows you to flip through the scenes and move the pieces onto the pages. Use to initiate conversations, make up a story, increase sentence length, and more.
Speech Therapy Handouts
Download free speech therapy activities, printables, and handouts! A graphic on the components of social communication and the development of answering and asking questions is included.
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