Parkinson Voice Project® Awards 2024 SPEAK OUT!® Clinical Education Grant to Great Plains Health – North Platte Post

(Courtesy of Nice Plains Well being)

Nice Plains Well being

Richardson, Texas — Parkinson Voice Undertaking, a nonprofit group devoted to preserving  the voices of individuals with Parkinson’s, named Nice Plains Well being a 2024 SPEAK OUT! Grant  Program recipient. 

Grant recipients embrace hospitals, universities, personal practices, and different organizations  offering speech remedy throughout america and overseas. Every Scientific Training 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 Program 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  might enhance their communication by “talking with intent.” Based mostly on Boone’s teachings and  developed by Parkinson Voice Undertaking, the SPEAK OUT! Remedy Program is a extremely efficient,  complete program that helps folks with Parkinson’s and associated neurological problems  regain and retain their speech and swallowing. By combining particular person and group SPEAK OUT!  Remedy with ongoing affected person and household training, folks with Parkinson’s study to transition  speech from an automated 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 fee on this affected person inhabitants. Our  imaginative and prescient at Parkinson Voice Undertaking is to make high quality speech remedy accessible to folks with  Parkinson’s worldwide,” stated Samantha Elandary, Parkinson Voice Undertaking’s Founder and Chief  Government Officer. 

As a 2024 SPEAK OUT! Grant Program recipient, Nice Plains Well being is dedicated to providing  Parkinson Voice Undertaking’s SPEAK OUT! Remedy Program to assist folks with Parkinson’s and  associated neurological problems of their neighborhood.  

About Parkinson Voice Undertaking Parkinson Voice Undertaking 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, together with Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France,  Ghana, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Israel, Greece, Lebanon, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan,  Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, South Africa, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and the  United Kingdom. For data, go to: https://www.ParkinsonVoiceProject.org 

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