Fluency Card Games

Ages: 8-15
Grades: 3-10

Motivating card games give students valuable experience in talking about their feelings and practicing a variety of new speech behaviors. Six different card games facilitate therapy for the emotional, physical, and cognitive aspects of stuttering.

Students practice skills in a fun, comfortable environment with games like Go Fish, War, Pyramid, and more! The games can supplement any fluency program including a "speak more fluently," "stutter more fluently," and "integrated approach."

There are four 54-card decks loaded with relevant stimuli that prompt students to share their feelings and practice speech behaviors:

Emotions Deck

• Explore personal feelings, feelings about speaking, and how others react to stuttering.
• What are three things that make you angry?
• Name one thing that confuses you about the way you speak.
• What are two things you like about the way you talk?
• Functional Communication Deck
• Talk about and describe situations at school and in the community.
• Who is the funniest student in your class?
• Practice saying, "_________ is the funniest student in my class."
• Describe a time when something funny happened to you at school.
• Talk about personal likes and dislikes.
• What is a fast-food restaurant?
• What is your favorite fast-food restaurant?
• Describe how you place an order at the drive-up window of a fast-food restaurant.

Social Communication Deck

• Practice speaking in common situations with same-age peers. Students talk about their family, likes and dislikes, and after-school activities.
• How do you get home from school?
• Ask a friend to come to your home after school.
• Practice giving directions from your school to your home.

Stuttering Awareness Deck

• Develop an awareness of stuttering and its characteristics by describing fluent speech, analyzing secondary behaviors, using negative practice and pull outs, and describing reactions to stuttering and teasing.
• What do you do when you first feel you are going to stutter?
• Why is it important to practice pull out in speech class?
• Describe three positive ways to react to teasing.

COMPLETE KIT INCLUDES: 4 card decks (54 cards per deck), instructions, vinyl bag. (©2005)