Description
Fall, winter, spring, and summer barrier games for speaking and listening skills in speech therapy, ESL classes, special education, and beyond!
Are you looking for a way to simplify your therapy planning? Do you need a resource that seamlessly adapts to mixed groups, individual sessions, or social skills groups? Barrier games are just what you need!
Enhance your speech therapy toolkit with barrier games! This printable activity is designed to elevate speaking and listening skills and address a common challenge many SLPs face: finding adaptable materials that cater to diverse learning needs and objectives.
Barrier games are a therapy tool that transforms the way you approach language goals, making learning an interactive and enjoyable experience for students. Perfect for mixed groups, helping to generalize concepts, and works great in social skills groups.
With a focus on both expressive and receptive skills, these barrier games aid in developing crucial speaking and listening skills like giving and following directions. It’s an engaging way to enhance social skills, basic concepts, vocabulary, categorization, sentence formation, and storytelling.
✅ WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- Fall scene with 11 separate pictures
- Winter scene with 12 separate pictures
- Spring scene with 11 separate pictures
- Summer scene with 10 separate pictures
- List of directions to give with each scene (targeting concepts below)
TARGET:
- Vocabulary: e.g. Put the ice skates on the snow.
- Adjectives: e.g. colors, size
- Spatial concepts: e.g. on, in, under, below, next to, between
- Following multi-step directions
- Sequential directions: e.g. Before you put the pumpkin in the patch, put the leaves under the tree.
- Social skills: e.g. Making eye contact to give/receive instructions and asking questions to clarify instructions.
HOW TO PLAY:
Give everyone playing a scene and set of pieces. Set up a barrier between players (e.g. file folder). One person (clinician or student) arranges all their pieces on the scene and then gives directions to other player(s) on where to place the items. The purpose of the game is to have matching scenes at the end.
You can put sticky tack on each piece so it will stick to the scene – or simply just place on the scene. Barrier games are also commonly played on a magnetic surface. You can play on cookie sheets and place pieces on a thin, sticky magnet if you wish.
➜ Want to streamline therapy planning?
➜ Want to utilize more open-ended materials that can be used to work on multiple goal areas?
➜ Need resources for mixed groups, individual sessions, or social skills groups?
BUNDLE & SAVE!
Grab even more barrier games when you purchase the Barrier Games Mega Bundle! With over 20 barrier games included, you’ll get fun and exciting themes for the school year.
SLPS AND EDUCATORS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“These are fantastic! My students really enjoyed the fall barrier game, and I am looking forward to using the other seasons this school year. Definitely worth the prep time!”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“Used this today and loved that I was able to use it in so many ways. Used with children for articulation and language goals. Kids loved using mini objects/erasers on the pictures as reinforcer.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“Working on listening and turn taking? This is a very engaging lesson pack – my students loved this and really worked on their skills in a very natural way!”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“Used this resource for following sequential directions and targeted WH- questions at the same time! This resource can target so many goals!”
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Lindsey Zwerneman –
I love all of Allison’s products!! Having these seasonal materials makes planning therapy so easy and also exposes children to so many new words. I highly recommend this to help you do high quality therapy with minimal prep!