About this activity
Fourteen spaces that each ask for the student's own target sound in a slightly different form: say your target word three times; use it in a sentence; say it in a silly voice; name three things in the room with your sound; say your word out loud, then whisper it; teach the therapist how to make your sound. The board carries no words of its own, which is what makes it work for a mixed group where every child has a different target.
How to use it in a session
Set each student's target before the first roll so the board can run for a whole group at once. The variety is doing real work — moving between whispering, questioning, and fast repetitions keeps the motor pattern from becoming a single rehearsed routine that collapses outside the room. The teach the therapist space is the most useful one on the board: a student who can describe where their tongue goes has explicit knowledge that survives between sessions. Fifteen minutes is a full game.
What to listen for
Watch what happens to accuracy as the demand changes. Most students hold their sound at word level and lose it in the sentence spaces, and the size of that drop is the number worth tracking. The silly voice and jumping spaces raise the load deliberately — accuracy that survives them is closer to conversational than accuracy in a quiet repetition.
Carrying it home
Pick two spaces and use them at home rather than the whole board. Say your word in a sentence about food works at dinner without any materials, and name three things in the room works anywhere there is a wait.
Questions
- Which sound does this target?
- Whichever one the student is working on. The board asks for a target word rather than supplying one, so it runs for a whole mixed group at once.
- Do I need an account?
- No, it plays free in the browser with no login.
- What grades is it for?
- Kindergarten through fifth, and it scales by what you ask for on each space rather than by the space itself.