This time of year one of my students' favorite games to play in therapy is "Halloween Meanies". This game was created by David Sindrey and is available on speechtree.ca for download. Halloween Meanies One of the reasons I love using it is the ability to choose whatever target I want to while playing it. You can target articulation, expressive vocabulary, auditory discrimination, receptive understanding of verbal descriptions, answering questions, or practicing grammar targets. The ability to vary targeted skills makes this game very repeatable without the students losing interest. You just need 16 picture cards to represent your targeted skill(s). You then hide the "meanies" and "candy bags" under the picture cards. I like to use paper clips so that I can pick them up without revealing what's underneath. The other reason I really love this game is, like many of David Sindrey's games, it's a cooperative game of luck. The students either win together or lose together, so there are no hard feelings.
To use this game to target auditory skill development, you simply need to add the use of the auditory hoop and careful selection of your 16 targets. For example, you might choose words differing by presence or absence of a word final consonant (boo-boot, bye-bike-bite, bow-boat, etc.) or presence or absence of plural -s (black cat/black cats, pumpkin/pumpkins, etc.). At a lower level, you might target words differing by syllable number (witch vs. pumpkin vs. Frankenstein vs. Jack-o-lantern). Or at a higher level, you might target sentence level discrimination (She is trick-or-treating vs. He is trick-or-treating, He is picking a pumpkin vs. He is carving a pumpkin.). The only downfall to make this a listening activity is that you as the clinician are choosing what pictures get looked under, so make sure you have no idea where you have hidden the meanies and the candy bags.
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