Roll the die

Appropriate Population:

• 4 years and up
• Moderate or mild delay or age-appropriate cognitive, expressive and receptive language ability

Goal:

• Staying on topic
• Answering open ended questions
• Initiating and /or participating in a conversation
• Giving information
• Participating in a conversation topic around others’ interest

Steps:

1. Source or create a large die (see resource section for printable die)
2. Print 6 pictures of topics the client can talk about and glue each picture to a side of the die.
   • Examples of pictures: a spider to represent fears they have, a bed to represent their bedroom, a family to represent their family, food to represent their favorite food, a game/toy to represent their favorite video games/toys
3. Each person takes a turn to roll the die. Talk about the topic you land on for 3 minutes.
4. Consider embedding this activity in a board game or any games that require a die.

Step up:

• Change the topics on the die to other topics
• Speak for longer period of time about each topic
• Take conversational turns around the topic

Step down:

• Give one sentence about the topic.
• Speak for short periods of time about each topic.

Resources:

• Die template (Printable) https://timvandevall.com/printable-paper-dice-template/