Park and Practice Speech Therapy Toy Companion for Toy Cars

This activity was designed to be a simple, no-prep activity to target articulation in an engaging way. My students love playing with my collection of small toy cars and rubber vehicle counters so I made another way to practice speech and language skills while using them. You can find a set of small car toys on Amazon.The BEST part about this resource is that you can send it with the student after the session for home practice!! 

How to use: Print out a page with the desired phoneme and grab some toy cars! I like using the small matchbox style cars or rubber vehicle counter toys. If you don’t have toy cards, let the students color and cut out the attached cars to use with the pages! 

• One car: Drive the car down the road and let the student pick a spot to park and practice the  target on the spot. Have them visit each spot to practice each word (the therapist will determine the number of trials per word). 
• Multiple cars: Tell the student to drive each car to a spot and practice the word underneath it.  (you will need 12 cars to fill it ups). The therapist will determine the number of trials per word
• Follow the child's lead. Let the child drive the car and tell them to "park it" to practice! 

Variations:

1. Let the students drive or race the cars on the floor and have them “park it” on one of the spots to practice. 
2. Connect the BONUS road page included and have the student drive the route and then pick a parking spot (even more fun!). 
3. Pull it up on a teletherapy platform and have the student use a digital car image to drive with (if your platform allows) or draw a car on each spot with the annotating feature! 

This pack includes the following sounds: Initial/final p/b/m (for bilabials and final consonants); final: t, d, n (for final consonants); initial h, w, y; VC/CV/CVC/CVCV; initial/medial/final:  k, g, f, v, l, s, z, sh, ch, th,  lblends (initial/medial), initial sblends (sp, st, sm, sn, sk, sl, sw, mixed), final sblends; pre-vocalic r, er, or, ar, air, ear, & rblends (initial/final); 3 syllables/4 syllables/5 syllables, and complex clusters. I also included blank open-ended pages. Now includes BONUS language pages: categories, WODB, compare/contrast, associations, and action words. 80 pages! 

Don't have toy cars? I also included some color paper cars to cut out and laminate or black and white that the students can color.

***This is a digital download, you are responsible for printing the product to use.  This purchase is a ONE user license, sharing this file in any way is not permitted. Please respect copyright laws. Exception: You may share a page with your student's caregiver for home practice.