Nearly a year ago, Michele Demarest, MS CCC-SLP, CBIS, the owner and Director of Morris Speech Therapy Associates in New Jersey, was invited to a…
Ashley AstiApril 10, 2024
Adam DePorter was doing an undergraduate summer internship at York Hospital in Pennsylvania when his mom came in for neck pain. She was scheduled to…
Ashley AstiMarch 28, 2024
It was awful timing. Sandra Abrevaya had just given birth to their second daughter and they were about to come home from the hospital. Her…
Ashley AstiFebruary 14, 2024
For a couple of years after being told I had Parkinson's, I was lost in the "Desert of the Recently Diagnosed." And it was a…
Laura CrawfordJanuary 12, 2024
When Karen Malkin got married, she switched from Wall Street to teaching. “I thought it’d be a quieter career,” she said, laughing. Turns out, teaching…
Ashley AstiDecember 14, 2023
“When people hear they have Parkinson’s and they’re told it’s neurodegenerative”—that it’s going to get worse and worse over time—“they might get a stereotypical picture…
Ashley AstiDecember 8, 2023
Waiting. The definition of waiting is: "to stay in place in expectation.” It was the middle of Covid, and I found myself waiting in the…
Kathleen GleiterDecember 6, 2023
Long before Jose Cabassa, MD, chose to specialize in movement disorders, his grandmother planted a seed in him. “My grandmother was a master at making…
Ashley AstiNovember 30, 2023
“Health care was always meant to be for people,” Megan Dooley, OTD, an occupational therapist and the owner of Innovative Therapy Solutions & Consulting LLC,…
Ashley AstiNovember 21, 2023
