Practice Activities for Smooth Speech

I Spy Book or game

As your child is looking for the objects to be found, ask him/her some simple questions. Since he/she will be distracted, it will be more difficult to answer using smooth speech.

Guesstures or Password

Since these games have a time pressure, it is a challenge for the child to use a slow rate while giving clues. Adapt the Guesstures game to use words to provide clues instead of gestures.

Alphabet Game (similar to Scattegories)

Find a picture with a lot of activity in it (or an I Spy book). Pick a letter of the alphabet and set the timer. Each person has to find as many objects in the picture that begin with that letter. Put up a barrier so no one can see the other person's list. When the time is up, have your child read their answer using smooth speech. If the same word is listed for a certain letter, it must be crossed out. Points are given for each word and additional points can be given for using smooth speech successfully.

Twenty Questions

Find an object in the room. The child must figure out the object by asking questions that can be answered yes or no.

Another travel version of this is the family or group decides the boundaries, such as that it has to be something you can see outside (or inside) the car and the person who is "it" says, "I'm thinking of something that's yellow (or another color)...", and then the group proceeds to take turns asking questions, such as "Is it large? Is it the sun?

This continues until it is guessed and then another person takes a turn.