Nina Santus

Parkinson Voice Project, SPEAK OUT!; The LOUD Crowd. This grant aims to make quality speech treatment accessible to people with Parkinson’s across the globe. Grant sites receive free SPEAK OUT!, LOUD Crowd, and Teletherapy training for SLPs, graduate students, as well as speech therapy supplies and funding for LOUD Crowd groups.

Parkinson Voice Project, SPEAK OUT!; The LOUD Crowd. This grant aims to make quality speech treatment accessible to people with Parkinson’s across the globe. Grant sites receive free SPEAK OUT!, LOUD Crowd, and Teletherapy training for SLPs, graduate students, as well as speech therapy supplies and funding for LOUD Crowd groups.

Gender Affirming voice training is a type of voice therapy that is used to modify aspects of a person’s voice to align more closely to one’s authentic self. Services are provided safely by skilled speech-language pathologists and are part of student practicum experiential learning. Health insurance often does not cover voice training and this can lead to lower retention and completion rates among transgender clients who seek services. The GSHFoundation Community Impact Grant was utilized to fund the provision of voice screenings, evaluations and sessions as well as two community workshops designed to increase awareness of the availability of Gender Affirming Voice Services from the University of Georgia (UGA) Speech and Hearing Clinic.

Developed and awarded a grant through external proposal with University of Georgia Speech and Hearing Clinic’s clinical director for the 2015-2016 National Sertoma Community Grant. This grant supports Sertoma’s hearing health mission. This grant included a proposal to support our ongoing speech and hearing screenings in our local community by funding supplies needed such as testing forms, audiometers, pocket talkers, and hearing protection. To continue to perform these screenings in various settings in our local community as well as expand to new locations such as nursing homes would impact the community exponentially. Principal Investigator. Developed and distributed survey. Outcomes included feedback from current community partners as well as finding four more sites that were interested in a partnership.