Debbie's Blog
Preparing for Halloween
Posted by Debra C. Lowsky, MS, CCC-SLP on 15th Oct 2014
With just over two weeks left before Halloween, now is a good time to help children get ready for trick-or-treating. Some of my kids say "fick or feet" or "sick uh seat" or "twick or tweet."
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How to Make a Puzzle More Therapy-Friendly
Posted by Debra C. Lowsky, MS, CCC-SLP on 14th Jul 2014
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This puzzle wasn't early-intervention-friendly enough for me - the insets were just a boring tan / wooden color! So I colored in the insets to give kids more of a vi
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You Know Your Mom Is an SLP When...
11th May 2014
. You know your mom is an SLP when:.
• You can diagnose a lateral lisp within 2 seconds flat.
• Your mom uses sign language to talk to you from across the room.
• You
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Visualizing /sh/ as a Continuant in Speech Therapy
Posted by Debra C. Lowsky, MS, CCC-SLP on 30th Apr 2014
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This young man has conquered /ch/ both alone and in sentences. Since he can say /ch/, /sh/ is a breeze from here. So I had him say /ch/ in isolation, and then just prolong it.
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How to "Turn Your Voice on" - Teaching the Difference between Voiced & Unvoiced Phonemes
Posted by Debra C. Lowsky, MS, CCC-SLP on 13th Apr 2014
Speech therapists have a variety of classifications / categories for speech sounds. One such category is voiced versus unvoiced phonemes. Voiced phonemes are sounds made when the vocal
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