Carolyn Baylor and colleagues published some excellent work revealing the challenges for spouses and other family members in communicating with persons with Parkinson’s disease. Their publication: “Take Us Into Account”: Perspectives of Family Members of People...
On Thursday, September 19th, our Speak OUT! (formerly LOUD Crowd) weekly online group met for our usual weekly meeting. I often select a topic for reading and discussion and on that class day, the topic was change. We talked about the conscious or...
Hypophonia (low volume) is a common voice symptom associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD), and in fact, is now thought to be a prodromal symptom, that is, present even before the motor symptoms which lead to a diagnosis, so referral to speech therapy soon after...
