Silicon Republic April 10, 2024
Vish Gain

Founded by Clare Meskill and Dave Calnan in 2020, Telea connects speech and language therapists with patients to monitor their treatment remotely.

A pilot study of Irish digital speech therapy platform Telea has found that patients of Parkinson’s disease using the technology recorded a 10pc increase in their vocal function.

Announced a day ahead of World Parkinson’s Day tomorrow (11 April), the study conducted by Health Innovation Hub Ireland (HIHI) offers hope to around 15,000 Ireland-based patients of the neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects speech and movement.

Telea is a start-up based in Cork that developed a platform and an app to provide home-based therapy for people with Parkinson’s. It connects speech and language therapists (SLTs) with patients of the...

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