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Does Speech Therapy Help With Word Finding?
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My mom was recently diagnosed with PD. We have suspected it for some time, but finally through ruling out everything else, they gave us this diagnosis.

Physically she is in really pretty good shape, has shaking in one hand and one foot, slow movements, and problems returning to standing after sitting, but otherwise pretty good.

Her main problem is communication. She has a terrible time trying to tell us anything. It's like she starts a sentence and before she's done, she can remember what it… read more

posted March 28, 2018
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A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

I don't think speech therapy will help with remembering what she wanted to say - it's for swallowing, volume, intelligibility, and if you do your exercises can really help. I can't remember words, a common PD problem, and either describe the word I want or just wait for it to come to me - speech therapy did not address this. What we have is a cognitive problem.

posted March 28, 2018
A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

Yes. Speech Pathologists DO work on cognitive issues, word finding, recall, memory strategies in addition to voice and swallowing (dysphagia) therapy, etc.

Marc Mitnick, MS, CCC-Speech Pathologist
Parkinson’s Advocate
Parkinsonsflorida @yahoo.com

posted February 11, 2021
A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

Yes speech therapy will help the muscles !

posted March 28, 2018

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