Speak Out! In UBNow
UB designated site to provide speech therapy for Parkinson’s patients
CDS & the Speak Out! Program was recognized in a recent article in UBNow written by Jackie Hausler.
Each year, nearly 90,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a condition that can present a variety of symptoms and life-altering setbacks — including losing the ability to speak and swallowing complications.
Now, thanks to funding from the Parkinson Voice Project, UB is one of 17 universities across the country that have named sites for the “SPEAK OUT!” program to help patients regain and retain their communication skills throughout the progression of Parkinson’s.
UB is New York State’s only SPEAK OUT! therapy and research center, which is housed in the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Clinic in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences (CDS), College of Arts and Sciences.
The $280,000 grant from the Parkinson’s Voice Project will support training, services, supplies and equipment over five years.