LSVT-LOUD

Someone appropriate for LSVT-LOUD may experience...

- Others asking you to repeat yourself often

- Less quiet voice compared to previously

- Monotone voice

- Being understood less

- Less steady voice

- Running out of air when talking

- Parkinson's

- parkinsonism

- Ataxic dysarthria

- Multiple system atrophy

- Down syndrome

- One evaluation + 16 sixty minute sessions (4 consecutive days/week for 4 weeks)

- Treatment sessions consist of daily exercises + hierarchical speech exercises

- Functional homework outside each session

- Increased vocal loudness

- Improved articulation and speech intelligibility

- Improved intonation

- Improvements in facial expression

- Changes in neural functioning related to voice and speech