Ultimate List of Speech & Language Books by Disorder

When planning my for my therapy sessions, I always find myself googling speech and language books for different goals and themes. I’m a book therapy kind of girl, and I probably use them in every single session no matter the age of the student.

In order to keep track of all the speech and language books that I was finding, I thought I’d keep a running list here on the blog! That way you can have access to what I find as well. Feel free to contact me if you find a good book to add to the list because I’ll be adding to it often. Sooo, here’s my ultimate list of speech and language books by disorder!

Note: This post contains Amazon affiliate links, which just means I might get a small (tiny! 😂) percentage if you purchase through it.

Articulation 

1. Dynamic Resources books – for phonological processes and more
2. Articulation storybooks from NSS
3. Phonics Faces Storybooks
4. Book lists from Speech Sprouts
5. Book list for extended phoneme practice from MSU

Fluency

1. Ben Has Something To Say
2. Steggie’s Stutter
3. Stuttering Stan Takes a Stand
4. When Oliver Speaks
5. Something to Say About Stuttering

Voice

1. Decibella and Her 6inch Voice
2. Quiet Loud
3. Voices are not for Yelling
4. Too Loud Lily

Following directions

1. There’s a Monster in Your Book
2. Press Here
3. Don’t Push the Button
4. Mix it Up
5. From Head to Toe

Making Inferences

1. No David
2. Little Critter Books
3. Pigeon Books by Mo Willams
4. Chalk (wordless books)
5. The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

Easy Sequencing

1. Old lady books
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
3. If You Give a Mouse A Cookie
4. The Napping House
5. The Snowy Day
6. Jan Brett books- The Mitten, The Hat, The Umbrella – I’ve also got a great book companion for The Umbrella if you need it!

Story Grammar

1. Big Al
2. The Paper Bag Princess
3. Hiccups for Elephant
4. Where’s My Mummy?
5. Pierre the Penguin

Idioms

1. There’s a Frog in My Throat
2. Why The Banana Split
3. In a Pickle
4. More Parts
5. You’re Toast

Predicting

1. Who’s Next Door?
2. Too Many Tamales
3. Good Night Gorilla
4. Duck on a Bike
5. Enemy Pie

Context Clues (vocabulary)

1. Baloney
2. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
3. Click Clack Crocodile’s Back
4. Life of a Car (picture clues)
5. Wordless books like Fossil (pictures clues)

Compare/contrast

1. Different? Same!
2. No Two Alike
3. Shark Vs. Train
4. I am the Dog. I am the Cat
5. The Pain and the Great One

Cause/effect

1. Stuck
2. The Cow Tripped Over the Moon
3. The Lorax
4. Rube Goldberg’s Simple Normal Humdrum School Day
5. If You Give a Moose a Muffin (or any If You Give books)

Describing (adjectives)

1. Old Hat New Hat
2. The Woods
3. Many Luscious Lollipops
4. Fun Dog Sun Dog
5. Spiky Slimy Smooth
6. The Nose Book

Pragmatics

1. Julia Cook books – You can check out my favorites at this blog post.
2. Interrupting Chicken
3. Howard Wigglebottom Learns to Listen
4. I Like Myself
5. Hands Off Harry
6. The Way I Feel

Preschool (vocabulary, labeling, questions)

1. Photograph books – first words or categories: animals, shapes, etc.
2. 100 first words – Disney
3. Richard Scarry Best Words Book Ever (vocabulary, functions)
4. Where’s Spot (yes/no questions, animals) – digital and printable book companion is available.
5. Goodnight Moon (home vocabulary) – digital and printable book companion available.
6. Brown Bear Brown Bear (animals, colors, WH questions)
7. Mouse Shapes and Mouse Paint (shapes, colors, simple sequence)

Preschool (basic concepts)

1. Up Down and Around (prepositions)
2. Inside Outside Upside Down (prepositions)
3. Rosie’s Walk (prepositions)
4. What’s Up Duck (opposites)
5. Opposites by Sandra Boynton
6. Big and Little by Steve Jenkins
7. The Long and Short of It
8. More Bears (quantity concepts)
9. Bears on Wheels (quantity concepts)

What would you add to the list??