Music for Speech Therapy
Don’t miss out on one of the most energetic and motivating ways to get children to participate in your sessions. Using music in speech therapy, you can improve sounds, assess receptive language and comprehension, as well as elicit more expressive language.
Using Music in Speech Therapy is This Easy:
- Pre-teach skills/vocabulary
- Sing the song
- Follow-up with post activities, such as questions
A few challenges to note when working with delayed communication:
- The melody can often times be too quick to follow.
- Pause frequently during the song to allow children to respond/participate in a manner similar to a cloze procedure. This will enable children to actively learn new vocabulary as well as the meaning behind the lyrics of the song.
Best Music for Speech Therapy for Preschoolers
We spend a lot of time working in early childhood centers and classrooms for young children and the teachers there have the best music! Here we have gathered some of the best speech therapy songs for preschoolers.
As fun as using music in speech therapy is, we have a better chance of meeting our goals if we are using interactive songs for speech therapy. That’s why we have organized everything that we have found by curriculum topics and provided links for you to download it yourself.
Downloadable materials that can be used before, during, and after some of the songs. Some of the printable materials are labeled based on goals that can be targeted, but keep in mind that all activities can be modified to target any number of speech and language goals.
All about me / Todo acerca de mi
| English Speech Therapy Song | Spanish Speech Therapy Song | Printables |
| Hello Friend | Hola Amigo | Following Directions |
| Opposites | Los Opuestos | |
| Head, shoulders, knees and toes | Cabeza, hombros, rodillas, pies | |
| Goodbye friends | Adios Amigos | |
| Juanito | Body Part Idenfication Body Part Identification 2 | |
| Si Juntamos las Manitas | ||
Animals / Animales
| English Speech Therapy Song | Spanish Speech Therapy Song | Printables |
| Octopus | Un Pulpito | Wh-Questions |
| Color Farm | Colores en la Granja | Increase MLU |
| Five Little Monkeys | Cinco Monitos Pequeños | Wh- Questions |
| Five Little Speckled Frogs | Pedro el Conejito | |
City and Country/ La ciudad y el campo
| English Song | Spanish Song | Printables |
| Old MacDonald | En la granja de Don Juan | |
| Color Farm | Colores en la Granja | Increase MLU |
| Wheels on the Bus | Las Ruedas del Camion | Semantic Relationships |
| La Granja |
Community / Comunidad
| English Song | Spanish Song | Printables |
| My Mother is a Baker | Mi mama es panadera | Visuals |
| Wheels on the Bus | Las Ruedas del Camion | Semantic Relationships |
| I’m a policeman | ||
| I’ve been working on the railroad |
Family / Familia
| English Song | Spanish Song | Printables |
| My Mother is a Baker | Mi mama es panadera | |
| My Family and I | Mi familia y yo | |
| A Donde esta papa? |
Five senses/ Los cinco sentidos
Interactive Songs for Speech Therapy
These interactive songs for speech therapy rely on the senses.
| English Song | Spanish Song | Printables |
| Head, shoulders, knees and toes | Cabeza, hombros, rodillas, pies | |
| I am a Pizza | Soy Una Pizza | |
| The Vowels | Las Vocales | |
| Vamos a Cantar | ||
| Pedro el Conejito |
Food / Comida
| English Song | Spanish Song | Printables |
| I am a Pizza | Soy Una Pizza | |
| Do You Like Broccoli Ice Cream? | ||
| Apples and Bananas | Platanos y manzanas | |
| El Chocolate |
Growing things / En el jardin
| English Song | Spanish Song | Printables |
| The planting song | ||
| Oats, peas, beans and barley grow | ||
| Las verduras | ||
| Las frutas |
Insects / Insectos
| English Song | Spanish Song | Printables |
| The Itsy Bitsy Spider | La arañita pequeñita | |
| Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me | ||
| Una abeja | ||
| La cucaracha |
Places we go / Lugares que visitamos
| English Song | Spanish Song | Printables |
| This land is your land | Esta es mi tierra | |
| We’re going on a bear hunt | ||
| Me gusta viajar | ||
| Vamos a la mar |
School / Escuela
These are some of the best speech therapy songs having to do with the school environment.
| English Song | Spanish Song | Printables |
| Wheels on the Bus | Las Ruedas del Camion | Semantic Relationships |
| Alphabet | Alfabeto en español | Initial Consonants-Eng Initial Consonants-Sp |
| Days of the Week | Dias de la semana |
Seasons and weather / Las estaciones y el tiempo
| English Song | Spanish Song | Printables |
| Weather Song | La Canción del Tiempo | Weather Identification |
| Months of the year | Meses del año | |
| Que llueva | ||
| Las estaciones |
Tools we use/ Herramientas que usamos
| English Song | Spanish Song | Printables |
| I am a Pizza | Soy Una Pizza | |
| Vamos a Cantar |
Travel and transportation / Viajar y transporte
| English Song | Spanish Song | Printables |
| Wheels on the Bus | Las Ruedas del Camion | Semantic Relationships |
| Row your boat | Rema tu bote | |
| Little red caboose | ||
| El barquito | ||
| Un gran tren |
Best Song Lyrics for Speech Therapy Graduation
Speech therapists are a creative bunch and these are some of the best song lyrics for speech therapy graduation that we have come up with.
We’re graduating from speech therapy,
Our words are now as clear as can be,
We’ve come so far, we’ve made it through,
Thanks to our parents and teachers too.
We’ll keep on speaking with confidence and pride,
Our words no longer hidden, but out in the open wide,
We’re grateful for the journey we’ve been through,
And we’ll keep on growing, with our speech anew.
We Practiced Every Sound From A To Z
These song lyrics go to the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it”
We practiced every sound from A to Z
We played every game like hide and seek
But now we’re graduating
‘Cuz the Teacher’s always saying
That we’re speaking better than we use to be
