SPEAK OUT!® Therapy

The SPEAK OUT!® Therapy Program, developed by Parkinson Voice Project, helps people with Parkinson’s and related disorders REGAIN and RETAIN their speech and swallowing. The program can improve volume, articulation, breath support for speech, vocal quality, intonation, and facial expression. Patients and families also report reduced drooling and improved swallowing. This highly effective, research-based treatment combines education, individual and group speech therapy, and daily home practice. The “Circle of INTENT” outlines the various therapy components and emphasizes that this program is lifelong.

For more information on the SPEAK OUT! ® Therapy Program, please visit the Parkinson Voice Project website. 
 

Our SPEAK OUT!^® Therapy Program is generally offered on Monday-Thursday mornings between 9:00 am and noon, but schedule changes may occur across different semesters. Please contact the Robert L. Douglass Speech-Language Clinic for specific scheduling information. You can email us, or call  (323) 343-4690.   All sessions take place either in our on-campus clinic or virtually through telehealth. Telehealth group therapy sessions are offered on Tuesday and Wednesday each week.

The SPEAK OUT!^® Therapy Program at the Robert L. Douglass Speech-Language clinic is offered in both Spanish and English. All sessions are conducted by graduate student clinicians and supervised by Masters and Ph.D. level clinicians, all of whom hold the Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and are Certified SPEAK OUT!^® providers.

To learn more about our services, please email us.

This free of cost SPEAK OUT!® Therapy Program can be provided to anyone in California either in-person or via teletherapy thanks to a generous grant from Parkinson Voice Project.