In 1997, when I first began to offer the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT®) for persons with Parkinson’s (PWP), it was one of the few times when I would ask a spouse or other family member to NOT join us in therapy. The rationale for my decision and what I said to...
Most exercise-based speech therapy programs developed for persons with Parkinson’s disease focus on daily home practice as an important component of brain re-training. However, there is also an underlying assumption that individuals with motor speech problems...
The causes and characteristics of speech impairment in individuals with Parkinson’s disease, while common, are complex and variable. Speech production is related to and coordinated by an integrated network of sensory, muscular, respiratory, and cognitive functions,...
