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5 Toys To Help Elicit Language - Toddler edition

6/26/2019

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Becoming an SLP has done something to me - I am slightly obsessed with toys. There is something about seeing a child's face when tinkering with a toy: you might see concentration, awe, joy, and occasionally disinterest. It's important to remember that it's much less about finding the one magical toy that can increase your child's language and much more about finding a toy that you can use TOGETHER to grow the language. Language is all about interactions between people, and that's how children learn best! To avoid the trial-and-error of finding the right toy to play with your late talker, here are my favorites that you may strike gold with as well!


Battat Pound and Roll

#1. In my experience, this ball tower toy (and those like it, I believe Melissa and Doug have one, but I haven't personally tried it) is SUCH a favorite with the little ones. You can practice several different tasks with this toy, requesting, following simple directions, color identification/matching, imitating actions, imitating sounds, imitating exclamatory words...the list goes on and on! Because the balls travel down the ramp when pushed through, it provides a lot of visual interest as well. 

Shape Sorter

#2. Shape sorters are great for the 1-3 age group. You can work on skills like matching, color and shape identification, directional words like "in", "out", "turn," etc. You can talk about concepts like "oops! Doesn't fit, try it again!" Similar to the ball and hammer toy, you can work on requesting, following simple directions, answering yes/no questions. This one is especially great to help your little ones gain some patience with tasks. You can help them as needed, slowly giving them more and more time to figure it out before you jump in to help.

Gazillian Bubbles

#3. These are the best bubbles of all time. Seriously, they are beautiful, thick, resilient bubbles (but not to resilient). They work great in bubble machines and bubble guns, and even just the old fashion way with the included wand. The bubbles linked here come in a 2 liter container, which is pretty important if you go through bubbles like I do! To help elicit language, bubbles are great for requesting, imitative words like "pop!" Exclamations like "wow!" and "oops!" Even the most disengaged of little ones are fascinated by bubbles. It can also be good oral motor practice to round lips and blow through the wand!

Piggy Bank

#4. This toy is great because of its simplicity, and you could really use any similar toy to serve this purpose - as long as toddlers can put things IN and take things OUT. You can hide the coins around the room and talk about how you're looking, walking, etc. You can dramatically say "I found it!" when you spot a coin, and then run back to the pig to put them inside. So many verbs and prepositions can be modeled to your little one through a toy like this. Placing the coin in the bank and the subsequent sounds/singing that occurs will act as motivators to the child, while everything they do to get the coins can be the language part of the activity. Remember - it's less about what the TOY DOES, and much more about what you DO WITH the toy together!

Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? Book

#5. For our final toy, I have chosen a book. I know what you're thinking: "hey, that's not a toy, it's a book!" but I would argue that it's important to have developmentally appropriate books accessible during play time, so that makes it a toy in my mind. Books help to develop language too, ya know! This one specifically is great because of all the noises throughout the story. In this book, we learn all about what noises Mr. Brown is capable of, which can lead to some great imitation of sounds, which is an important step in language development. Encourage your child to "mooooooo!" like Mr. Brown can. Make it fun and silly!
Those were my Top 5 Toddler Toys for eliciting language. Remember - it's all about enjoying these toys and experiences together!
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