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An estimated 90 percent of those afflicted with Parkinson鈥檚 disease suffer from a diminished sense of how audible their voices are. It leads to problems being heard on the telephone, at the grocery store and in conversations with loved ones.

But a special vocal therapy program developed by CU-Boulder professor Lorraine Ramig of speech, language and hearing science is proving effective. Called the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, it involves an hour a day in treatment sessions plus homework.

The goal is to get patients to become comfortable using their perceived 鈥渓oud鈥� voice and to cue them to know it is the right voice, despite their initial misperceptions that they are shouting.

鈥淎s a faculty member, it鈥檚 wonderful, thrilling and all of that to do the science, but what鈥檚 also exciting is seeing the application of discovery in real patients,鈥� Ramig says.