Online games that target speech and language skills

There are quite a few websites I've discovered that cover so many speech and language areas. The activities are interactive and fun, so the kids love them and the games target important skills and concepts, so parents/educators love them. Below, I've listed 10 sites that I've discovered that target an array of skills. Let me know which ones are your favorite!

http://www.dositey.com/langk2.htm
This site has games targeting phonics, reading, writing, alphabet, vocabulary, spelling, and grammar to use with grades K-3. What I especially liked was that this site had games for synonyms and antonyms.

http://www.quia.com/pages/grammarcrackers.html
This site provides activities that target grammar, adjectives, nouns, verbs, WH questions, pronouns, and so much more.

http://www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html
This site provides activities to teach vocabulary, grammar, WH questions, comprehension, figurative language, phonological awareness, sequencing, and articulation. It has games that are similar to the website listed above.

http://www.quia.com/pages/speechersclass.html
I loved this site because it was very similar to the second and third sites I listed, but this really focuses on articulation/phonology.

http://www.quia.com/pages/worldowords.html
This site is very similar to the other ones I found, but I loved this because it provided an activity for social skills and inferencing.

http://members.tripod.com/Freida_vanStaden/SLPresources.htm
This site provides activities for reading, rhyming, and articulation. The students can take these activities home to enhance the skills that we are targeting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/
This site can enhance vocabulary and syntax skills because the students are asked to play a game where they write a postcard or a sentence that is placed in a gallery. I really think that kids will respond to the visual reinforcement.

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/play.htm?f
This is a great site to use with younger students (early childhood and kindergarten). Students can play a game to make words, so essentially it is targeting articulation and vocabulary.

http://www.kiddiesgames.com/en/read_hear_color_books.php
This site has online books that children could listen to. After your child has listened to the book, you can ask a variety of WH questions (What, Who, When, Where, Why).

http://www.uptoten.com/kids/boowakwala-home.html
This site provides many interactive games (536 total games) and songs (56 total songs) to reinforce key concepts and skills.

What are some websites that you have discovered?

Articulation Disorder

An articulation disorder is when a child has difficulty producing speech sounds correctly. This can be due to any of the following: placement, timing, pressure, speed, or flow of movement of the lips, tongue, or throat.

When an articulation error occurs, the child may substitute one sound for another. For example, they say, "wabbit" for "rabbit." Some children may omit sounds in the word. For example, they may say, "pay" for "play." Sounds can also be distorted and/or the child may add a sound into the word.

Some articulation errors are age-appropriate. Visit the website below to view a chart of speech sound development:

http://isd742.org/ecassessment/assets/SpeechSoundDevelopmentChart.pdf.

Here is a great site that explains how to target a specfic sound. This website also provides clip art and games to target articulation skills.

http://www.speechtx.com/articulation.htm

Which sound are you going to target with your child? Have you found any other resources that you would like to share?

Purpose of this Speech and Language Blog

I recently enrolled in an online course through Ottawa University (Online Research Skills and Applications: Teacher's Tackle Box) to better develop my skills of using technology in the classroom. The assignments have literally led me to discover amazing resources/tools on the internet. One of our assignments was to create a classroom, curriculiar, or parent blog. So, that is how this blog came about. My purpose of creating this blog to provide more information and resources to you. I'll regularly post a blog focusing on an area in speech and language. I'll try to provide some resources and ideas on how to incorporate speech and language activities at home. You can give me insight on what you need and/or how that is going. I really think that this will be a great way for us to communicate and you can have access to what other parents/therapists find useful/not so useful.

So, what topics would you like to see covered?