Many people with Parkinson’s disease experience speech and swallowing difficulties that can weaken their voice or make them difficult to understand. Thanks to a grant from the Parkinson Voice Project, ...

BLOOM (TAMPA) – Vanessa Alcala, a bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist, Certified Dementia Practitioner, and founder of TheraVolve Wellness Co., recently joined Gayle Guyardo, host of the globally ...

The Speech Accessibility Project is a research initiative to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with a range of diverse speech patterns and disabilities. The project is housed ...

Experts in speech pathology have now developed a program to help those with Parkinson’s disease. Voice therapy program SPEAK OUT! helps people with Parkinson’s and ...

For decades, Parkinson’s disease has been framed as a simple story of dwindling dopamine, a slow erosion of the brain’s ...

Difficulty distinguishing spoken words from background noise, called speech-in-noise hearing impairment, was associated with increased risk for Parkinson's disease (PD), with a 57% elevation in risk ...

Results of a recent study strongly suggest simply getting more B vitamins in your diet could be a completely painless way of ...

Researchers estimate that 89% of people with Parkinson's disease (PD) have speech and voice disorders including disorders of laryngeal, respiratory and articulatory function. Despite the high ...

We do know Parkinson's is caused by the loss of dopamine nerve cells in the part of the brain responsible for voluntary ...

The Power Over Parkinson’s community is no stranger to adversity. The Monterey-based nonprofit serves people fighting the unpredictable and debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. After a fire ...

Listening to people with Parkinson's disease made an automatic speech recognizer 30-percent more accurate, according to a new study. As Mark Hasegawa-Johnson combed through data from his latest ...