Originally Posted by polarbear
2) Playing word-generation type games (fun board games) before he started a homework assignment. This wasn't directly helpful with the actual assignment, but helped (how I don't know!) somehow rev up his brain so that he had less difficulty getting words out.

Any suggestions for these? DS sometimes seems to have trouble remembering words (although I don't recall this being specifically called out on a recent speech analysis). Revving up his brain in this way could prove helpful.