Speech telerehabilitation in Parkinson's Disease

• Grant number: 11/51667-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: January 01, 2012
• End date: December 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Wu Tu Hsing
• Grantee: Alice Estevo Dias
• Host Institution: Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP (HCFMUSP). Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition associated with significant motor impairment including tremor, rigidity, akinesia, and speech disturbances. Patients with PD face difficulties in accessing speech pathology services for speech rehabilitation. Telerehabilitation could be a way to solve this issue, since it can ben lemented online through new developments in communication and computer technologies. One study demonstrated favorable results with speech telerehabilitation and this method should be further explored. AIM: To investigate the efficacy of speech rehabilitation in PD patients with the utilization of on line methodology and comparing the results with the traditional methods. METHODS: Patients with PD and speech disturbances will be randomized into two groups and treated by the same speech therapist. Group I will be treated through telerehabilitation and Group II will be treated with the traditional method. All patients will be evaluated before treatment witn perceptual-auditive analysis) vocal quality, articulatory precision and speech intelligibility) and acoustic (sound pressure levei, fundamental frequency) by biinded speech therapists from recorded registries. AH patients will be treated with the Lee Silverman method and re-evaluated thereafter. We hope that our results may contribute to the implementation of more effective health politics aiming to treat a larger proportion of patients. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ALICE ESTEVO DIAS; JOÃO CARLOS PAPATERRA LIMONGI; EGBERTO REIS BARBOSA; WU TU HSING. Telerreabilitação vocal na doença de Parkinson. CoDAS, v. 28, n. 2, p. 176-181, 2016-04-00. (11/51667-0)

DIAS, ALICE ESTEVO; PAPATERRA LIMONGI, JOAO CARLOS; BARBOSA, EGBERTO REIS; HSING, WU TU. Voice telerehabilitation in Parkinson's disease. CoDAS, v. 28, n. 2, p. 6-pg., 2016-03-01. (11/51667-0)