🌷 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...
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...
When a patient with Parkinson’s disease is referred for a speech therapy evaluation, it’s common for them to have a referral for Physical therapy as well, and so they will ask: “which should I do?” My answer would be both, but perhaps not at the same time, and...
