If you live with or care for someone with Parkinson’s disease (PD), you already know how much the disease can change daily life. What may surprise you is just how significantly it affects communication — and how much that burden is shared by spouses and family...
“This feels too LOUD.” I feel like I’m shouting. Over the last 30 years of working with individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) I have heard the statements above so many times, that you almost believe that it is one of the hallmark symptoms of PD. This is often the...
If you are someone with speech and voice changes due to Parkinson’s disease or a related diagnosis, and you’ve completed speech therapy, you know the importance of continued daily practice. But practice isn’t always easy, especially when you are on vacation or just on...
This year has been challenging with two strong Hurricanes impacting the area where I live and causing closure of my office location in Punta Gorda. But fortunately access to Telehealth has allowed me to continue to work with patients, and in fact broaden my reach to...
Hypophonia (low volume of speech) is a common motor speech symptom of persons with Parkinson’s and has been attributed to a perceptual deficit or the lack of awareness of their own reduced speech loudness co-occurring with dysarthria ( a motor speech problem). Changes...
