Parkinson Voice Challenge, a nonprofit devoted to preserving the voices of individuals with Parkinson’s, has named Nice Plains Well being a grant recipient.
Grant recipients embrace hospitals, universities, non-public practices, and different organizations offering speech remedy throughout america and overseas. The identify of the grant award is SPEAK OUT!
Every medical schooling grant recipient receives coaching for his or her speech-language pathologists and college students, SPEAK OUT! eLibrary entry, and the chance for SPEAK OUT! workbooks and different supplies.
The SPEAK OUT! grant honors the late Daniel R. Boone, Ph.D., a world-renowned speech-language pathologist who acknowledged within the Nineteen Fifties that people with Parkinson’s may enhance their communication by “talking with intent.”
Primarily based on Boone’s teachings and developed by Parkinson Voice Challenge, the SPEAK OUT! Remedy Program is a extremely efficient, complete program that helps individuals with Parkinson’s and associated neurological issues regain and retain their speech and swallowing.
By combining particular person and group SPEAK OUT! Remedy with ongoing affected person and household schooling, individuals with Parkinson’s be taught to transition speech from an computerized operate to an intentional act.
“As much as 90% of individuals with Parkinson’s are liable to dropping their means to talk. As well as, swallowing problems account for 70% of the mortality charge on this affected person inhabitants. Our imaginative and prescient at Parkinson Voice Challenge is to make high quality speech remedy accessible to individuals with Parkinson’s worldwide,” stated Samantha Elandary, Parkinson Voice Challenge’s Founder and Chief Government Officer.
As a 2024 SPEAK OUT! Grant Program recipient, Nice Plains Well being is dedicated to providing Parkinson Voice Challenge’s remedy program to assist individuals with Parkinson’s and associated neurological issues.
Parkinson Voice Challenge is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group solely devoted to bettering speech and communication in people with Parkinson’s. The group is headquartered in Richardson, Texas and has educated greater than 10,000 clinicians in additional than 40 international locations. For data, go to: https://www.ParkinsonVoiceProject.org
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