A patient said to me this week: “I wish there was a pill for my speech.” I understood exactly why she said it. We live in a world where Ozempic has made weight loss feel achievable, where a pill can help someone quit smoking after decades of trying. We...
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...
🌷 April Is Parkinson’s Awareness Month Parkinson’s disease affects more than 1 million people in the United States — and communication changes are among the most life-altering yet underrecognized symptoms. Early referral to a licensed...
The Voice That Moves You Voice Aerobics® has always been built on a whole-body approach to voice practice — the understanding that the voice does not exist in isolation, but is connected to breath, posture, energy, and spirit. Self-vocalization as a movement tool is...
Reduced vocal intensity (hypophonia) is a hallmark motor speech symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and while the physiologic causes of motor speech changes in PD are not completely understood an impairment in accurate self-perception of speech has been...
