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Children’s books can offer a huge resource for parents, caregivers, and speech pathologists looking to help kids learn and improve their spoken language.
While there are plenty of speech pathology reading list options to explore, many kids’ books are great for helping young ones to get more comfortable with sounding out specific words and letters. In particular, authors such as Dr. Seuss are renowned for their playfulness with words, offering a fun, engaging way for kids to learn.
Explore our full speech pathology reading list and shop online with Booktopia.
Must-have speech pathology books for kids
Noisy Nature won the 2017 Book of Year from Speech Pathology Australia for the language and literacy development zero to three years category. It’s a fun way for babies and toddlers to learn about the sounds of the Australian bush, with the ‘ooh aah’ of the kookaburra, the ‘err err err’ of the green tree frog, and many more. This is a fantastic book for developing early language.
Another award winner is Funky Chicken: Chooks In Space, which won the 2016 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year for five to eight year olds. Think spacesuits, a feathered hero, and inter-galactic travel, making this a fun romp for children in their early reading years. It also comes with a CD of the narrated story to music, plus a ‘Chooks in Space’ song and a visual slideshow of the book itself.
Australian children’s speech development books
There’s something special about exploring Australian books for speech development, especially when the pronunciations are accurate for Aussie kids!
Trace Balla is an Australian author who wrote Rockhopping, an exciting story of an eventful hike in Gariwerd (the Grampians). It tells the tale of a boy and his uncle venturing into the mountains to find the source of the Glenelg River. This book won the Young Readers Book of the Year in 2017, and is known for its beautiful illustrations and connection with nature.
For another book that will connect with young Australians, try ‘The Oo in Uluru’. This was the winner of the 2019 Australian Speech Pathology Book of the Year for the five to eight year-old category. The entire book offers fun Australian-themed phonemes about the ‘oo’ vowel sound, and where they can find it in other words as well.
