Clinical insights into speech amplification device usage for Parkinson disease: A mixed-methods approach

Kelly Gates, Thea Knowles, Helen Mach, Jeff Higginbotham

Kelly is presenting our mixed methods work on speech amplification devices for management of hypophonia in San Diego, CA this week at the Motor Speech Conference!

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