Posts Tagged Speech therapy

Alternative service delivery models for LSVT LOUD® and LSVT BIG® treatment protocols

Join LSVT Faculty as they discuss their unique service delivery models, such as managing a cash-based clinic, delivering sessions via telepractice, and running a mobile practice.

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LSVT LOUD and LSVT BIG Training and Certification Options for Students

Join LSVT Faculty to discuss how students can get certified individually, or how university faculty can easily offer the training to a group of interested students.

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Calibration: The heart of success for LSVT BIG® and LSVT LOUD® Treatments

Join LSVT Faculty to discuss calibration for LSVT BIG and LSVT LOUD.

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Treating Childhood Populations with LSVT LOUD®

Join LSVT Faculty for a discussion regarding how LSVT LOUD may be applied to pediatric clients, with a focus on cerebral palsy and Down syndrome.

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Improve Your Fine Motor Skills through LSVT BIG®

Join LSVT BIG faculty as they discuss how increasing amplitude through LSVT BIG treatment can be used to help individuals with Parkinson’s disease improve fine motor skills such as buttoning and hand writing, typing, and more.

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Get the LSVT Companion – a speech therapy data collection option. Now available for all ages!

The LSVT Coach is a one of a kind device for LSVT LOUD treatment. It consists of a software program paired with an external calibrated microphone that offers valid and reliable acoustic measurement of sound pressure level (SPL), frequency and duration. The data collection is specifically tailored to the LSVT LOUD protocol and offers automated data averaging for fast and efficient summary treatment results.

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LSVT Treatments Applied to Neurological Conditions Beyond Parkinson’s Disease

Join LSVT Global faculty for an informational webinar on how to apply LSVT Treatments to Neurological Conditions Beyond Parkinson’s Disease.

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Life after LSVT LOUD® and LSVT BIG®: Tips to help maintain treatment gains

Join LSVT Global faculty for an informational webinar on Life after LSVT LOUD® and LSVT BIG®.

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You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers! Top 10 questions related to LSVT treatments

Join LSVT Global faculty for an informational webinar on the top 10 questions related to LSVT treatments.

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Building a database for automatic speech recognition in Parkinson’s disease

Disordered speech and voice may limit access to everyday voice activated devices (e.g., mobile phones, computers). These devices have automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that have been trained on non-disordered speech. This makes it frustrating for individuals with speech disorders such as those accompanying Amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Down Syndrome and Parkinson’s disease (PD) to utilize these devices. Project Euphonia is an initiative by Google to make speech technology more accessible to individuals with non-standard speech. The first step in this process is to gather large numbers of speech samples from disordered speakers in order to train speech recognition systems. This paper reports initial work to collect speech data from individuals with PD to contribute to this project. 

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