Parkinson Voice Project Awards 2022 SPEAK OUT!® & LOUD Crowd® Grant to Elite Therapy & Wellness

Parkinson Voice Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the voices of individuals with Parkinson’s, has named Elite Therapy & Wellness, 2137 William St Cape Girardeau, MO 63703 as a recipient of its 2022 SPEAK OUT! & LOUD Crowd Grant Program.

Grant recipients include hospitals, universities, private practices, and other speech therapy clinics across the United States and abroad. Each clinic receives speech therapy workbooks and free training for their speech-language pathologists and graduate students. Elite Therapy & Wellness is committed to offering Parkinson Voice Project’s “SPEAK OUT! & LOUD Crowd” program to their Parkinson’s community, along with additional services targeting wellness.

“Up to 90% of people with Parkinson’s are at risk of losing their ability to speak. In ad-dition, swallowing complications account for 70% of the mortality rate in this patient population. Our vision at Parkinson Voice Project is to make quality speech therapy ac-cessible to people with Parkinson’s worldwide,” said Samantha Elandary, Parkinson Voice Project’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer.

This grant program honors the late Daniel R. Boone, Ph.D., a world-renowned speech-language pathologist who recognized in the 1950s that individuals with Parkinson's could improve their communication by “speaking with intent." Parkinson Voice Project’s highly effective speech therapy program is based on Boone’s teachings and combines education for the patient and family, along with individual and group speech therapy.

ABOUT PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT:

Parkinson Voice Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization solely dedicated to improv-ing speech and communication in individuals with Parkinson’s. The organization is headquartered in Richardson, Texas and has trained more than 10,000 clinicians in more than 40 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ethiopia, India, Israel, South Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

ABOUT Elite Therapy & Wellness

Elite is a holistic-based speech therapy clinic and wellness center. Elite is the only specialized clinic in Cape Girardeau for voice and swallowing disorders. In addition, Elite offers infrared sauna sessions, salt therapy, assisted stretching, balance personal training, and more!

https://wwww.elitetherapywellness.com

https://www.ParkinsonVoiceProject.org