by Yonca Berk-Giray, SLP Eighty-nine percent of individuals with PD have speech and voice difficulties at the onset of the disease. As the disease progresses, this number rises to 100%. Most individuals with PD also experience varying degrees of swallowing difficulties. Speech and voice difficulties are often overlooked by the patients and their physicians until … Continue reading The role of the speech pathologist in the treatment of speech, voice, and swallowing disorders associated with PD