Part of every childhood will at some point involve playing with toy building blocks, and whilst for many children, it will be no more than a fun activity, for those children having speech pathology treatment, building games will play an important role in their speech and language therapy.

We hesitate to use a pun and say that building games can help to “build” a child’s language skills, but the reality is they can, and in many ways by speech pathologists as part of a child’s treatment.