Games and Rehabilitation Supports: Building Your First Kit
Between specialized games, adapted commercial supports, and personal creations, build a functional, versatile kit that fits your budget.
The rehabilitation kit represents the daily tool of the speech therapist. It is better to have a limited number of perfectly utilized supports than a plethora of underutilized items. Versatility is the key word: the same game can serve multiple objectives depending on your creativity.
🎯 Philosophy of an Effective Kit
The creation of a kit responds to a subtle balance between diversity and mastery of tools. The same game can serve multiple objectives: working on vocabulary, but also syntax, memory, executive functions, depending on your creative use.
Versatility
Each game should be able to serve multiple objectives depending on the patients
Visual Quality
Attractive and sturdy materials to capture patients' attention
Creativity
Your creative use multiplies the yield of each purchase
🏢 Specialized Speech Therapy Games
Specialized publishers offer games designed for the rehabilitation of language disorders, with detailed usage guides and targeted therapeutic objectives.
🗣️ Oral Language - Phonology and Articulation
Phonological Lottos Essential
Boards targeting phonemes based on their position. Discrimination and articulatory production.
💰 25-45 € / setMinimal Pair Games
Cards illustrating words that differ only by one phoneme.
💰 20-35 €Rhyme Games
Associations of images that rhyme with each other for phonological awareness.
💰 15-30 €Phonetic Dominoes
Association by initial or final phoneme based on the domino principle.
💰 15-25 €📖 Oral Language - Vocabulary and Semantics
Photographic Picture Books Essential
Collections of realistic images categorized by semantic themes.
💰 40-100 € / setCategorization Games Essential
Sorting images by categories, logical links, intruders to find.
💰 25-50 €Riddle Games
Definitions to find, clues to give. Evocation and definition.
💰 20-40 €Association Games
Semantic pairings: profession/tool, animal/habitat, whole/part.
💰 15-35 €📝 Oral Language - Syntax and Morphology
Sequential Stories Essential
Images to be put in chronological order. Narrative and connectors.
💰 20-50 €Sentence Games
Construction with visual supports: subject, verb, complements.
💰 25-45 €Pronouns and Inflections
Games targeting personal pronouns, verb tenses, agreements.
💰 20-40 €Description Games
Complex scenes to describe, characters to guess.
💰 25-50 €🎲 Adaptable Commercial Games
Many popular games prove to be excellent supports with creative use. Their advantage: quality design, accessible price, and immediate availability.
Dobble Must-Have
Visual attention, quick naming, vocabulary. Usable in multiple ways.
💰 15 €Guess Who? Must-Have
Description, question formulation, descriptive physical vocabulary.
💰 20 €Time's Up
Definition, mime, evocation. Excellent for lexical work.
💰 25 €Dixit
Figurative language, imagination, interpretation. Dreamlike illustrations.
💰 30 €Uno Must-Have
Colors, numbers, simple rules, attention, inhibition.
💰 10 €Memory
Visuo-spatial memory, thematic vocabulary depending on the versions.
💰 10-15 €Story Cubes
Illustrated dice to invent stories. Narrative, creativity, connectors.
💰 12 €Jungle Speed
Attention, visual discrimination, inhibition, speed.
💰 20 €💡 Adaptation Tip
The same game can serve dozens of objectives! With Dobble for example: simply name the symbols, make sentences ("I see a..."), categorize ("It's an animal"), describe ("It's red and round"), find the first sound, the last sound, count the syllables... Your creativity multiplies the value of each purchase!
📦 Essential Small Equipment
📋 Small Equipment to Prepare
🎯 Complete Your Kit with DYNSEO Digital Tools
DYNSEO applications perfectly enrich your traditional kit with scientifically validated interactive supports.
🧒 COCO for children • 👨 JOE for adults • 👵 EDITH for seniors
Discover the 69 tools →✂️ Create Your Own Materials
Creating personalized materials enriches your kit at a lower cost while precisely addressing the needs encountered.
🔧 Ideas for Homemade Creations
- Customized Picture Books: Photos cut from catalogs, printed and laminated images by themes
- Thematic Card Games: Cards created on a computer according to your specific needs
- Custom Lottos: Boards and tokens adapted to the phonemes or themes worked on
- Sequential Stories: Photocopied and cut comic strips, photos of situations
- Syntax Supports: Pictograms and word labels to construct sentences
💰 Projected Budget for Beginner Kit
| Category | Essential | Comfort |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology/Articulation Games | 60 € | 150 € |
| Vocabulary/Semantics Games | 80 € | 200 € |
| Syntax/Morphology Games | 50 € | 120 € |
| Written Language Games | 60 € | 150 € |
| Commercial Games | 80 € | 150 € |
| Various Small Equipment | 50 € | 100 € |
| Picture Books and Visual Supports | 60 € | 150 € |
| TOTAL | 440 € | 1 020 € |
💡 Savings Strategies
💰 Tips for Saving
- Exchange Groups: Facebook groups for speech therapists offer second-hand materials
- Free Resources: Many blogs share downloadable supports
- Pooling: In group practices, share some expensive games
- Promotions: Publishers and stores regularly offer sales
- DIY: Create your own supports for specific needs
- Gradual Build-Up: Build your kit over the months according to needs
🎯 Conclusion
Your rehabilitation kit is built progressively over the course of your practice and discoveries. Start with versatile essentials, then enrich it according to the needs encountered and your therapeutic affinities.
The balance between specialized games and adapted commercial supports optimizes the quality-utility ratio of your investment. Your professional creativity transforms the simplest materials into powerful therapeutic tools.
A kit that reflects you:
DYNSEO enriches your practice with its innovative digital tools.
