Games. Sometimes when students are asked what they have been working on in speech, they respond with, “We play games.” With a cringe, SLP’s hope that the student and their family have a solid understanding of their speech goals. On the other side of the coin, games are motivating and productive speech and language therapy activities. I use a lot of games—all types of games with students. But the one thing I have learned about games and therapy is that a game is only as good as the quality and quantity of student responses that it helps me to facilitate. When I use games, it is less about the game and more about how I am able to cue the student. In teletherapy, interactivity is a factor I am constantly attending to. As the SLP, I still need a level of control that allows me to respond to the student's speech and language output and how to further cue the student. For me, there is an interactivity “comfort zone” when the child is engaged in a telepractice session.
