The Bright Ideas Outfit is thrilled to announce the launch of Throw & Blow, a fun first boardgame for the 3 – 5 year old market that is versatile (can be played by 1-4 people) and is unique in that it is a speech game – you blow your way through the game! It is being manufactured and sold by Smile Education for R120.00 and was developed by speech therapist Bronwen Campbell and myself to encourage children aged 3 – 5 to identify and use all the parts of the speech tract required for good speech – the tongue, lips, cheeks, jaw and right down to the diaphragm.

Try this exercise: put your hand just below your ribs, now say ‘p’ and ‘b’. Can you feel how these particular sounds require a pressure build up in the speech system right from your trunk? While sucking is a natural reflexive action that all children “know how to do” from birth, blowing is something that must be learnt, and is far more difficult for a child to do. Hence our game, Throw & Blow which requires players to blow their tokens around the board, picking up matching action cards and following the instructions.

Throw & Blow is great fun for everyone, not just children in speech therapy. Place orders with me or contact your nearest Smile consultant.

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