News Release

WARSAW — Parkinson’s Support Group of Warsaw will meet from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, at the Administrative Classroom of Lutheran Kosciusko Hospital (formerly Kosciusko Community Hospital), 2101 E. DuBois Drive, Warsaw.

“Let’s Talk Speech Therapy” by Mary Jane Lyga, physical therapist, will provide general tips to improve speech and ways to work in practice during day-to-day activities. She will introduce exercises to help improve and maintain speaking ability and touch on compensatory means of communication.

Lyga is a physical therapist and has practiced for 30 years in pediatrics, outpatient, skilled nursing facility and home health settings. She has been in Warsaw for 17 years and has worked as regional manager for Theracare since 2014.

Participants have an opportunity to learn more from professionals and specialists in the community, along with receiving answers to questions, sharing experiences and encouraging one another.

Open to all members of the community, the support group meets the second Friday of each month (except December), from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the Administrative Classroom of the hospital, door No. 20. A parking lot is located on Provident Drive.

For information, contact Pam Baucom at (574) 370-5709.