Many clinicians have long suspected there’s a relationship between feeding, swallowing, and speech–language development. This post isn’t about fully explaining that relationship. It’s about why it matters clinically and why it’s worth paying attention to.
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When Gary Rogliano received his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in mid-2018, he found himself in unfamiliar territory. “I’ve never heard of Parkinson’s before that,” he recalled on a recent episode of LSVT Global’s Think BIG and LOUD podcast. “Had no idea where to go, who to talk to or anything.” What followed wasn’t a retreat into uncertainty — it was the beginning of a movement.
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When LSVT BIG first emerged as a rehabilitation protocol for Parkinson’s disease, its core insight was deceptively simple: train the nervous system to move bigger, and daily function follows. The intensive, amplitude-focused program, sixteen one-hour sessions over four weeks, works by retraining sensory perception alongside motor output, helping patients recognize that movements which feel exaggerated are, in fact, simply normal. That principle, it turns out, may travel well beyond Parkinson’s disease.
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