I’ve sat in a lot of support group rooms and seminar halls over the years. Somewhere around the second or third speaker, it happens — someone at the podium looks out at a room full of people with Parkinson’s disease who drove themselves there, who...
Hi there everyone, It’s summertime here in Florida, and the hot days can make you feel lazy, but as usual, it’s been a full few weeks here at Voice Aerobics — lots of writing, lots of thinking, and a few conversations with patients that stuck with me long...
Research that truly serves people with Parkinson’s disease doesn’t begin in a laboratory. It begins in the community — with the patients, care partners, and clinicians who live and work with the daily realities of the disease. This is the foundation of Community Based...
When an individual with Parkinson’s or age-related voice changes is referred to my practice, they undergo a comprehensive clinical assessment prior to the initiation of treatment, and this includes a medical history review, medications the patient is taking, and...
Most of our behavioral speech and voice treatment approaches for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) depend on a conscious response from patients to self-monitor some aspect of speech production such as vocal intensity (loudness) or speech rate. Patients are...
