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Why the bridge between Hearing and Speech Sciences and Neurology takes a good listener

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Imagine meeting a patient who is believed to have a progressive neurodegenerative disease. What diagnostic methods might be useful? Would that person need to walk in a straight line, pick up an object or demonstrate grip strength?



What about listening for abnormalities in the patient’s voice and speech?



Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences often go underrecognized for their collaboration with multiple areas of medicine. Many people only assoc

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