This chapter reviews the speech and voice characteristics associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) and discusses the medical, surgical and behavioral speech treatment approaches for PD. The reduced ability to speak is considered to be one of the most difficult aspects of PD by many patients and ...
Dysarthria(difficulty speaking) anddysphagia(difficulty swallowing) can be severely limitingsymptoms of Parkinson's disease. Both can be helped by seeing a speech pathologist or speech therapist. In particular, the Lee Silverman Voice Therapy Program has demonstrated significant value for people with Park...
Parkinson’s disease affects not only movement but also muscles in the face, mouth and throat that are used to speak. This may cause a person’s voice to change, as well as dysarthria, or difficulty in speaking, and dysphagia, or difficulty in swallowing. Speech may become slurred, mumble...
Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) commonly have speech and voice problems that affect their functional communication and that are not sensitive to pharmacological or neurosurgical treatments. The authors aimed to evaluate the effects of speech and language therapies (SLTs) on dysphonia in patients...
Twenty-six patients with the speech disorder of Parkinson's disease received daily speech therapy (prosodic exercises) at home for 2 to 3 weeks. There were significant improvements in speech as assessed by scores for prosodic abnormality and intelligibility' and these were maintained in part for ...
Sapir, "Speech treatment for Parkinson's Disease," Expert Rev. Neurotherapeutics, vol. 8, no 2, pp. 299-311, 2008.Lorraine O Ramig,Cynthia Fox,Shimon Sapir.Speech treatment for Parkinson’s disease.Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics. 2008...
Speech and language therapy versus placebo or no intervention for speech problems in Parkinson's disease E. 2001a, "Speech and language therapy versus placebo or no intervention for dysarthria in Parkinson's disease", Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews ... CP Herd,CL Tomlinson,Katherine HO ...
Herd CP, Tomlinson CL, Deane KH, et al. Comparison of speech and language therapy techniques for speech problems in Parkinson's disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012b;8:CD002814. Herd CP, Tomlinson CL, Deane KH, et al. Speech and language therapy versus placebo or no intervention for...
Parkinson's disease: speech and voice disorders and their treatment with the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment.: Speech and voice disorders are very common among in
Breathing was investigated in 14 male subjects with Parkinson's disease and 14 healthy male control subjects. Kinematic, spirometric, acoustic, and pressure data were used to assess function during resting tidal breathing, reading aloud, and monologue production. Data were collected at two times durin...