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JUlie You may want to go to the Mohammed Ali Project website, it has some speech therapy tips on it. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Wilson" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 7:12 PM Subject: Re: Hello > Julie, since you are a speech specialist? let me share some experience. > Brother is PD...has been since 94 (probably before that). Officially > diagnosed PD in 98. Had all the beginning symptoms as you are familiar with > in PD. I saw his speech gradually deteriorate to a whisper and then > nothing. He can moan now...but no speech. His swallowing became a problem > about 98-99. He would gorge his mouth with food but could not swallow > unless he forced it. He got pneumonia March 2002 because he swallowed into > his lungs. He had to go into a nursing home. > > Now the observation. Our speech therapist appeared to be very elementary by > getting him to recognize symbols and point to them...he could not speak. > The therapist did not attempt to do anything with his neck muscles nor his > mouth muscles (movements) to help with speech (which probably would have > helped with his swallowing). There was no effort to revalidate his muscles > or to strengthen his neck muscles which "may" have helped with his speech > (and his swallowing). He was taken off speech therapy after 3 weeks. > > I am not asking for an opinion nor an answer to this e-mail. But sometimes > in your future you may want to look into that stage of PD and see if there > are exercises to help with speech and swallowing. Again, no need to answer, > but I see this as an area that needs to be researched. > > Larry Wilson > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn