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Help us STOP the 2021 Medicare cuts!

Tell congress to stop the 2021 Medicare cuts! Your input as Medicare beneficiaries and/or friends and family will hopefully serve to enlighten them on the negative impact these cuts may have on your health and well-being.

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Navigating Masks and Parkinson’s disease – keeping yourself heard!

Explore tips and resources for people with Parkinson’s disease that may help when communicating with a mask.

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The effects of intensive speech treatment on intelligibility in Parkinson’s disease: A randomised controlled trial

Combined with improvements to acoustic measures and communicative efficiency reported in previous studies, our findings suggest that SLPs’ patients with PD will experience improvements in speech communication and quality of life if treatment targeting voice is included in their patients’ care plan.

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Effects of an intensive voice treatment on articulatory function and speech intelligibility in children with motor speech disorders: A phase one study

Our results indicate that by focusing on a single target (healthy vocal loudness), clinicians may also observe positive therapeutic changes to articulatory function and intelligibility.

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LSVT Global’s Statement on Black Lives Matter

LSVT Global will go beyond simply issuing words of support. We will open our eyes and ears to see and LISTEN to the pain and the calls for change. We will do our part to help make change happen.

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A New Way to Learn: Virtual Live LSVT LOUD and LSVT BIG Training and Certification Courses!

The Virtual Live LSVT Training and Certification Course combines pre-recorded components of our online course with some of the content presented live (online) by LSVT LOUD or LSVT BIG instructors. The 8 hours of live learning allows participants to interact with faculty, each other, and even volunteers with Parkinson’s disease.

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Interactive and fun virtual exercise classes for LSVT LOUD and LSVT BIG Graduates!

Keep your LSVT LOUD and LSVT BIG exercises going in a fun, interactive and virtual way! teleLOUD for LIFE and teleBIG for LIFE are internet-based (Zoom), live, group exercise classes for those who have already completed all 16 sessions of the full LSVT LOUD or LSVT BIG treatment programs. The classes are led by speech-language pathologists or physical or occupational therapists who are LSVT LOUD/LSVT BIG Certified and trained to lead LOUD for LIFE or BIG for LIFE classes.

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From LSVT BIG Clinician to Director of Clinical Education for DPT Students

“These students are excited about the option of a great treatment tool to add to their toolbox prior to starting their final clinical experiences! Being the DCE of our program has allowed me to hear about some of those students’ experiences when working with a clinical instructor who is LSVT BIG certified. I love to hear the excitement in their voices when they tell me stories of how they have been able to make a difference in their patients’ lives!.”

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LSVT Global Team Member Spotlight! April DalleNogare

Learn more about our LSVT Global Team member April DalleNogare. April serves as our LSVT Global Finance and Human Resources Manager. Thank you April for your meticulous and dedicated work for LSVT Global and for the care you have for the company, our mission and our people. We couldn’t do it without you!

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Exercises classes, webinars and more: LSVT resources for people with PD

Learn more about our NEW exercise classes that will be free for people with PD during these unprecedented times. We also list existing resources that are available. We will add additional classes as needed and potentially extend our schedule into May.

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