Voice Aerobics Talking 2 You

Many older Americans suffer from acute and chronic communication disorders resulting from stroke, head and neck cancer, and neurological diseases, and although speech and language therapy can often improve symptoms and mitigate the impact of communication disorders, access to qualified providers may be limited for some patients due to: poor social supports, finances, or geographical constraints.For patients with limited physical access to speech-language pathology services, Telehealth, the process of providing services by videoconferencing or web interfaces is becoming an increasingly popular avenue for ensuring patients obtain necessary care from home.Join us as we explore the current and potential benefits and barriers for treating communication disorders using the telehealth platform.Guest/s:Erica  James, MA, CCC-SLP. The Voice and Swallowing Center, Waldo Hospital, Maine, the only program in the US to be accredited to provide speech telepractice training by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA).  Er

John Pepper was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1992 and,ten years later, while serving as President of the South African Parkinson’s Association, he wrote the first edition of his book: There is LIFE after Parkinson’s. He developed the idea that exercise might help his condition and through self-experimentation he developed an exercise and movement protocol that includes vigorous walking.John's personal story about his journey through Parkinson's disease, his setbacks, achievements, discoveries, disappointments, and ultimate triumph, may fly in the face of how a Parkinson's diagnosis is viewed by others, who may see it as a grim prognosis of unavoidable and relatively rapid decline. John believes that the lack of hopeful information only feeds depression and negative attitudes, stating: "you cannot maintain or improve your quality of life if you don't believe it's possible."John was featured in Norman Doidges' book "The Brain's Way of Healing" as A Man Who Walked off His Parkinsonian Symptoms, and today at 82,

Aphasia impairs a person's ability to process language, and/or their ability to speak and understand others, but does not affect intelligence.As a result of their difficulty communicating, people with aphasia may experience great isolation and frustration in their daily lives, which is often made worse by the lack of information that they receive about their condition, and the majority leave the health care system without referrals to resources in their own communities.Voices of Hope for Aphasia, is a community based program that was the brainchild of a patient and his wife, and it was designed to provide the communication bridges that will help people with aphasia do the things that are most important to them, and take part in their own life. Voices of Hope for Aphasia reconnects people, living with aphasia, with their lives through innovative programs.Guests: Jackie Hinckley, PhD, Executive Director, Voices of Hope for Aphasia, and Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida, has over 25

Upon graduating from New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Kathryn landed the ingénue lead in the classic Gothic daytime drama Dark Shadows, and later wrote My Scrapbook Memories of Dark Shadows to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the show. While writing the book and continuing her acting career, Kathryn launched Pomegranate Press, Ltd.Last Dance at the Savoy, her recent book, is a touching memoir and love story that chronicles the challenges of living with her husband’s medical diagnosis of PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy). Kathryn’s active and creative life nearly came to a halt when her husband, Geoff Miller, founding editor of Los Angeles magazine, was diagnosed with PSP.PSP is often a Parkinson’s look-alike in the initial stages, but, once its unique characteristics are recognized, the course is often more rapid and less amiable to treatment. Unfortunately, PSP has not received the same attention as some related neurological diseases, and yet, as our population ages, prime-of-life diseas

If the day you were diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, you thought it was the end of the world, you need to tune into this month's podcast. Why? Because, John Baumann, diagnosed with Parkinson’s at the age of 40, while practicing law, will tell you how, for him, a diagnosis of PD became a life saving event. John will reveal his success formula for living an amazing life-with or without Parkinson’s disease.“My basic message is that, whatever hand life deals you (whether your fault or not), whatever life-changing adversity you have to endure, you still have some control over it, to not just live well, but live an AMAZING LIFE. It takes faith in yourself, discipline, determination, desire, intensity, inner strength. For me, it was having Parkinson’s disease in my 30’s; I am 54 today and have very few symptoms. John, author of: DECIDE SUCCESS: Twelve Action Steps to Achieve the Success You Truly Desire, will join me to discuss the “secrets” of living well with Parkinson’s or any other adversity facing you. He wi