Game On! Our Five Favorite Games

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​Games are one of my favorite tools to use in individual AAC or literacy learning sessions or in AAC groups. Here are a few games I have found to be most successful:

1. ​Uno and Uno Attack are both games my clients love. We can work on matching, numbers and social communication skills. In Uno Attack we also work on impulse control since it is so fun to hit the button to make the cards go flying.
2. ​We often play an adapted version of “Guess Who?” In our AAC groups. We have large images of real people, pretend characters, celebrities and group members we display in the wall and a smaller version for one person who is “it” uses to select who were are guessing. The group proceeds to ask questions, “it” answers them and we eliminate pictures from the wall. Whoever correctly guesses who is missing is “it” in the next round.
3. ​Zingo, both the picture and sight words versions, are great AAC and literacy teaching games. The sight word version overlaps with core vocabulary and the picture version focuses on common nouns. We usually play that you have to either find the word on your talker or use the word in a sentence before you cover it on your Zingo card.​
4. Headbanz and all the various versions of it, like Heads Up and others, is a fun way to work on categories, asking and answering questions, and social language.
5. Super Duper apps, especially the Wh-?’s series, are a great tool to use alone or to pose questions players answer before their turn when playing other games like Pop the Pig, Don’t Break the Ice, Pop Up Pirate and others. ​