Creative Speech Therapy Ideas for Adults

Use these ideas for your next cognitive or language therapy session with an older adult. I promise you speech therapy can be fun & engaging with your adult patients.

Therapy tasks should matter. They should involve patient’s home & community environment. And they should involve caregivers.

This helps patients connect with their goals and in turn, boost patient engagement, participation, and outcomes.

• Sending an email

• Making a cup of coffee

• Reading & recalling a book paragraph

• Recalling names of doctors, therapists, and upcoming appointments

• Retelling a personal story

• Accessing online patient care portal

• Organizing medications

• Measuring room for a rug

• Using a calendar

• Recalling characters and plot from favorite TV show episode

Interested in learning more about person-centered care? Check out this blog article on simple ways to empower seniors to become active members in their plan of care!