Last week while driving home from work on one of my usual routes, I got caught in a speed trap. When I told a few patients about it, no one was surprised, as they have seen me zipping around in my little FIAT. Fortunately, the police officer was kind, and only gave me...
When you were a child it’s likely that your parents told you it was impolite to stare at others, and yet, staring at faces is exactly what I often do. A few years ago while participating in a conference, I conducted a Voice Aerobics® class. The class was well...
Over 20 years ago I began offering the LSVT® (Lee Silverman Voice treatment) program for persons with Parkinson’s disease (PD), and a few years ago Speak OUT! ® an alternate approach to improving speech clarity for persons with Parkinson’s and related diagnosis....
Syncopation in musical terms is described as “a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm.” A placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn’t normally occur. (Source Wikipedia) Syncopation is often used by dance teachers...
Individuals with hypophonia (low voice volume) and/or hypokinetic dysarthria (motor speech changes) resulting from Parkinson’s disease, may benefit from one:one speech therapy, employing a standardized protocol such as LSVT® Loud or SPEAK OUT!®. 30 days of progress...
Dance Does a Body Good In the late 1990’s I discovered Contra dancing. Contra dancing is a social dance that one can attend with or without a partner. The dancers form sets of two couples in long lines starting from the stage and going down the length of the dance...
