Speak Out

Speak Out is a voice therapy for Parkinson's patients. Parkinson's sufferers have trouble projecting volume and reading with inflection, so repetitive practice helps them retain normal speech patterns.

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Tue., April 5, 2016

Speech therapist Doreen Nicholas, left, holds a sound meter and gets a grimace from client Pam Spino each time she reminds Spino to speak louder during a speech therapy group for Parkinson's disease patients, Thursday, March 24, 2016, at the WSU-Spokane Riverpoint campus. Parkinson's sufferers have trouble projecting volume and reading with inflection, so repetitive practice helps them retain normal speech patterns.

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Speech therapists place sound pressure level meters around the table during a speech therapy group for Parkinson's disease patients, Thursday, March 24, 2016, at the WSU-Spokane Riverpoint campus. Parkinson's sufferers have trouble projecting volume and reading with inflection, so repetitive practice helps them retain normal speech patterns.

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Speech therapist Doreen Nicholas, right, coaxes longer and louder tones from Bill Hustrulid, left, during a speech therapy group for Parkinson's disease patients, Thursday, March 24, 2016, at the WSU-Spokane Riverpoint campus. Parkinson's sufferers have trouble projecting volume and reading with inflection, so repetitive practice helps them retain normal speech patterns.

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Bill Hustrulid focuses on speech pathology graduate student Kristin Milton as he recites series of numbers and words as practice during a speech therapy class aimed at helping Parkinson's disease sufferers preserve their speech capabilities even as the disease continues to degrade other abilities, Thursday, March 24, 2016, at the WSU-Spokane Riverpoint campus.

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As speech pathologist Doreen Nicholas, right, holds a sound meter, Patsy Wright, left, concentrates on volume and inflection as she reads a passage from a book as an exercise during a speech therapy class aimed at helping Parkinson's disease sufferers preserve their speech capabilities even as the disease continues to degrade other abilities, Thursday, March 24, 2016, at the WSU-Spokane Riverpoint campus.

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