10th Anniversary for Tampa NSDS Group

The Tampa National Spasmodic Dysphonia Support Group proudly celebrated 10 years on Saturday September 21^st at the War Veteran’s Memorial Park in St. Petersburg, FL.  The group was started by Darla Freeman-LeVay, Clinical Instructor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Spasmodic Dysphonia is a disabling voice disorder resulting in a strain-strangled voice and has no known etiology or cure. This group, sponsored by the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association, has raised over $10,000 in the past two years in support of research.  Our members are locally as well as nationally involved in continuing to educate the community and students here at USF.  For more information on Spasmodic Dysphonia go to www.dysphonia.org. (Pictured: Group Leaders, Ron Langdon and Jim Anderson accepting the recognition award from the NSDA.)