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• The road ahead: 2021 January 25, 2021 # # # # At the start of each year, it is a useful practise to layout what is planned over the next 12 months. The events that are scheduled for the year to come, so that we can keep an eye out for them. Obviously, where 2021 will end actually is unpredictable, but an outline of what is scheduled…
• A serious game for speech training in dysarthric speakers with Parkinson's disease: Exploring therapeutic efficacy and patient satisfaction March 26, 2022 Int J Lang Commun Disord. 2022 Mar 26. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12722. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The increasing need for speech therapy due to our ageing population raises the demand on therapeutical resources. To meet this demand, innovative delivery of speech training is required. eHealth applications may provide a solution, as intensified and prolonged training is only possible and affordable in patients'…
• A serious game for speech training in dysarthric speakers with Parkinson's disease: Exploring therapeutic efficacy and patient satisfaction March 26, 2022 Int J Lang Commun Disord. 2022 Mar 26. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12722. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The increasing need for speech therapy due to our ageing population raises the demand on therapeutical resources. To meet this demand, innovative delivery of speech training is required. eHealth applications may provide a solution, as intensified and prolonged training is only possible and affordable in patients'…
• A serious game for speech training in dysarthric speakers with Parkinson's disease: Exploring therapeutic efficacy and patient satisfaction March 26, 2022 Int J Lang Commun Disord. 2022 Mar 26. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12722. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The increasing need for speech therapy due to our ageing population raises the demand on therapeutical resources. To meet this demand, innovative delivery of speech training is required. eHealth applications may provide a solution, as intensified and prolonged training is only possible and affordable in patients'…
• A serious game for speech training in dysarthric speakers with Parkinson's disease: Exploring therapeutic efficacy and patient satisfaction March 26, 2022 Int J Lang Commun Disord. 2022 Mar 26. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12722. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The increasing need for speech therapy due to our ageing population raises the demand on therapeutical resources. To meet this demand, innovative delivery of speech training is required. eHealth applications may provide a solution, as intensified and prolonged training is only possible and affordable in patients'…
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• [Webinar Recording] Speech, Voice, and Parkinson’s January 28, 2021 Speech and voice impairments are common among people living with Parkinson’s. As many as 90% of people with Parkinson’s experience difficulties such as “hypophonia” (soft speech) or a more monotone, raspy, or breathy voice. Speech can become less intelligible and can make communication difficult, especially if paired with facial masking (a decrease in facial expression). It will come as no surprise then that speech and voice impairments…
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