I love this game! I'm a speech therapist, and I use it quite a bit. Each card has prompts on the back with a few different expressive and language prompts to go with the picture on the other side. Kids love collecting the gold coins, so they're motivated to participate.

I've even just taken the cards out and paired them with a different game if my kids want to play something else.

If I was stranded on a desert island with one speech therapy game it would be Pirate Talk. Have used it for social, receptive, expressive language for all levels, elementary to high school. The light up circle beeping spinner is a big hit. Worth it.

Pirate Talk was the second game that attracted my interest when I was checking the offered games from Super Duper Publications. This particular game is basically enforcing communications skills. Actually seven communication skills are reinforced with this game. Three of them are receptive - Sentence Repetition, Answering Questions, and Following Directions. Four are expressive - Categorizing, Inferencing, Describing, and Social Skills.

The game includes an 18x18 inches game board, 150 color-coded receptive and expressive language cards, 6 pirate players pieces, 100 gold coins and an electronic spinner (1-3).

It's easy to play Pirate Talk. The kids were eager to play this new game when I opened it up. It was a great way to encourage them to express themselves based on the images I would show to them. With their game pieces, they would move from island to island on the board game and collect gold coins when they would answer properly to their questions. Depending of the age of the child you can opt to ask the receptive or expressive questions. Five categories of social interaction is included in this game: School, People, Home, Community, and Activities. When we played, I would pick the category myself and choose a card. I would ask the child to come near me as I showed the image and ask the questions. See the card below for an example of questions asked on the receptive or expressive language skill.

My kids had a blast playing this game together and asked for more when I decided that we were done. They love the fact that the game is based on a pirate theme and that it encourages them to express themselves based on selected situations.

My only disappointment is that our electronic spinner isn't working anymore. Somehow it died rather quickly. I find that replacing the batteries is quite expensive. Fortunately, one of my sons remembered that he had a dice that had the 1-3 faces repeated (compared to a regular dice). So we are using this dice and honestly I think I prefer the dice over the electronic spinner which gets annoying with the noise it makes.

The Pirate Talk Board Game is available at the Super Duper Publications website for the price of 54.95$.

This is a board game that is perfect for getting kids thinking and following directions. The best part I think is the electronic spinner - no dice to loose just tap it and wait to see what number the light stops on. As kids, aka pirates, move around the board they look at a picture and answer questions. It is a fun way to get kids thinking and working out their brains, and they think they are just having fun! My boys love winning the gold doubloons (coins) and its become a family game we play often! They do need help though as they can't read the cards yet.

I received this game to review in exchange for sharing my honest opinion.