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Dear Tom, Thanks for telling me about the speech "machine" which you have found and use yourself - it is probably a great deal less expensive than the Speech Enhancer. I have seen biofeedback type of things, and I think they would be a great adjunct to anyone undergoing speech therapy for PD such as LSVT. Sadly, for Bob, I think he may have gone beyond the sort of device which you use. Nevertheless I am VERY interested in what you use because there is certainly room for all sorts of equipment. So I will look up your site and let our Speech Pathologist know about it. I wonder why SP don't pull out all the stops when they take someone on for Speech therapy? Cheers JOY Graham >I am unfamiliar with the "speech enhancer" but I have been using what >sounds like a very similar device for over 2 years now since I descovered >this phenomenon at my local science exhibit hall. You can find numerous >posts by myself on this list if you do a search of the archives requesting >"speech and riess". In a nutshell the device I have built is called a DAF >(delayed audio feedback) and it allows one to hear one's own speech about >600 milliseconds delayed. This forces one to attend to the task of >speaking rather than speech. >...The device can quite magically convert garbled (disartric) speech >into normal speech. By the way a similar rationale can be applied to >overcomming writing problems. > >Regards, > >Tom