Events at this location

In the spirit of health and safety, the club will be held virtually at this time.

The Parkinson’s Communication Club meets every Tuesday. Led by Susan I. Wranik, the Club establishes a wellness and prevention program for individuals with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners, with a focus on maintenance of communication skills. It stresses the importance of speaking louder to be heard in social settings. This program is a collaboration between The Kensington and The Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area (PFNCA.)

The Parkinson’s Communication Club is led by a licensed speech-language therapist, Susan Wranik, who has been trained in LSVT LOUD therapy (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, which improves vocal loudness by stimulating muscles of the voice box and speech mechanism through systematic exercises). The Club, however, is not therapy. Rather, it is a group approach to applying the exercises and skills of LOUD and/or other therapies.

Upon RSVPing for this event, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with a link to sign up and join The Parkinson’s Foundation Northern Capital Area (PFNCA). Please use the special offer code provided for a complimentary subscription to PFNCA’s wellness program including this event and many others.

Music Therapy Thursdays will explore a variety of ways participants and their caregivers can use different elements of music to maintain cognitive functioning, support healthy lung capacity, and encourage exercise all while interacting socially in a virtual setting. During the music therapy sessions, participant-preferred music will motivate participants to reminisce, challenge encoding and recall skills, practice deep breathing, give opportunities to use focused and divided attention, and keep up muscle strength from lips to toes.

Jessica Channell, a Board-Certified Music Therapist with Helping Harmony Music Therapy. A Fairfax native, Jessica received her degree in Music Therapy from Shenandoah University in Winchester, finishing with an internship at Westminster Canterbury of the Shenandoah Valley. Jessica’s love for working with gerontology and with those with dementia started while caring for her great aunt during college and became her specialization thereafter. Jessica co-founded Helping Harmony with her sister and brother in-law and is happy to serve not only those with dementia, but a wide variety of populations, including being one of the few Music Therapy Assisted Child Birth certified therapists on the East Coast. Jessica is now settled back in Winchester with her husband and two children where she enjoys cooking, gardening, and caring for her flock of chickens.

Join us on Thursday’s for Music Therapy Thursdays!

In the spirit of health and safety, the club will be held virtually at this time.

The Parkinson’s Communication Club meets every Tuesday. Led by Susan I. Wranik, the Club establishes a wellness and prevention program for individuals with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners, with a focus on maintenance of communication skills. It stresses the importance of speaking louder to be heard in social settings. This program is a collaboration between The Kensington and The Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area (PFNCA.)

The Parkinson’s Communication Club is led by a licensed speech-language therapist, Susan Wranik, who has been trained in LSVT LOUD therapy (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, which improves vocal loudness by stimulating muscles of the voice box and speech mechanism through systematic exercises). The Club, however, is not therapy. Rather, it is a group approach to applying the exercises and skills of LOUD and/or other therapies.

Upon RSVPing for this event, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with a link to sign up and join The Parkinson’s Foundation Northern Capital Area (PFNCA). Please use the special offer code provided for a complimentary subscription to PFNCA’s wellness program including this event and many others.

Music Therapy Thursdays will explore a variety of ways participants and their caregivers can use different elements of music to maintain cognitive functioning, support healthy lung capacity, and encourage exercise all while interacting socially in a virtual setting. During the music therapy sessions, participant-preferred music will motivate participants to reminisce, challenge encoding and recall skills, practice deep breathing, give opportunities to use focused and divided attention, and keep up muscle strength from lips to toes.

Jessica Channell, a Board-Certified Music Therapist with Helping Harmony Music Therapy. A Fairfax native, Jessica received her degree in Music Therapy from Shenandoah University in Winchester, finishing with an internship at Westminster Canterbury of the Shenandoah Valley. Jessica’s love for working with gerontology and with those with dementia started while caring for her great aunt during college and became her specialization thereafter. Jessica co-founded Helping Harmony with her sister and brother in-law and is happy to serve not only those with dementia, but a wide variety of populations, including being one of the few Music Therapy Assisted Child Birth certified therapists on the East Coast. Jessica is now settled back in Winchester with her husband and two children where she enjoys cooking, gardening, and caring for her flock of chickens.

Join us on Thursday’s for Music Therapy Thursdays!

In the spirit of health and safety, the club will be held virtually at this time.

The Parkinson’s Communication Club meets every Tuesday. Led by Susan I. Wranik, the Club establishes a wellness and prevention program for individuals with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners, with a focus on maintenance of communication skills. It stresses the importance of speaking louder to be heard in social settings. This program is a collaboration between The Kensington and The Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area (PFNCA.)

The Parkinson’s Communication Club is led by a licensed speech-language therapist, Susan Wranik, who has been trained in LSVT LOUD therapy (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, which improves vocal loudness by stimulating muscles of the voice box and speech mechanism through systematic exercises). The Club, however, is not therapy. Rather, it is a group approach to applying the exercises and skills of LOUD and/or other therapies.

Upon RSVPing for this event, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with a link to sign up and join The Parkinson’s Foundation Northern Capital Area (PFNCA). Please use the special offer code provided for a complimentary subscription to PFNCA’s wellness program including this event and many others.

Music Therapy Thursdays will explore a variety of ways participants and their caregivers can use different elements of music to maintain cognitive functioning, support healthy lung capacity, and encourage exercise all while interacting socially in a virtual setting. During the music therapy sessions, participant-preferred music will motivate participants to reminisce, challenge encoding and recall skills, practice deep breathing, give opportunities to use focused and divided attention, and keep up muscle strength from lips to toes.

Jessica Channell, a Board-Certified Music Therapist with Helping Harmony Music Therapy. A Fairfax native, Jessica received her degree in Music Therapy from Shenandoah University in Winchester, finishing with an internship at Westminster Canterbury of the Shenandoah Valley. Jessica’s love for working with gerontology and with those with dementia started while caring for her great aunt during college and became her specialization thereafter. Jessica co-founded Helping Harmony with her sister and brother in-law and is happy to serve not only those with dementia, but a wide variety of populations, including being one of the few Music Therapy Assisted Child Birth certified therapists on the East Coast. Jessica is now settled back in Winchester with her husband and two children where she enjoys cooking, gardening, and caring for her flock of chickens.

Join us on Thursday’s for Music Therapy Thursdays!

In the spirit of health and safety, the club will be held virtually at this time.

The Parkinson’s Communication Club meets every Tuesday. Led by Susan I. Wranik, the Club establishes a wellness and prevention program for individuals with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners, with a focus on maintenance of communication skills. It stresses the importance of speaking louder to be heard in social settings. This program is a collaboration between The Kensington and The Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area (PFNCA.)

The Parkinson’s Communication Club is led by a licensed speech-language therapist, Susan Wranik, who has been trained in LSVT LOUD therapy (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, which improves vocal loudness by stimulating muscles of the voice box and speech mechanism through systematic exercises). The Club, however, is not therapy. Rather, it is a group approach to applying the exercises and skills of LOUD and/or other therapies.

Upon RSVPing for this event, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with a link to sign up and join The Parkinson’s Foundation Northern Capital Area (PFNCA). Please use the special offer code provided for a complimentary subscription to PFNCA’s wellness program including this event and many others.