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Dr. Yael Manor

Senior lecturer in the Department of Communication Disorders

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About

A speech therapist in the Movement Disorders Unit at Tel Aviv Medical Center, she leads the multidisciplinary team and was recognized as an outstanding speech therapist in 2023. She serves as the Chair of the Swallowing Committee for the Israeli Association of Speech Therapists and is a member of the Health Professions Committee at the Movement Disorders Society. She is active with the Parkinson’s Foundation, the European Huntington Disease Network, and the Israeli Parkinson’s Association. Her research and clinical focus include voice, speech, and swallowing disorders in neurological diseases, collaborating with national and international bodies.

Education

PhD

Brain Research - Hebrew University of Jerusalem

.M.A

Speech pathologist

.B.A

Communication sciences and disorders

Teaching Areas

Voice, swallowing, supervision of seminar papers.

Research interests

Respiratory functions and their relation to swallowing functions in Parkinson's disease, vocal characteristics as markers for neurodegenerative diseases, telemedicine in the field of communication disorders, characteristics of swallowing disorders in Huntington's disease.

Selected Publications

Manor, Y., Giladi. N., Cohen, A., Fliss, D., and Cohen. Y. (2007). Validation of a swallowing disturbance questionnaire for detecting dysphagia in patients with Parkinson's disease. Movement Disorders Vol. 22, No. 13, P. 1917–1921
Manor, Y., Balas, M., Giladi. N., Mootanah, R., and Cohen. J. T., (2009). Anxiety, depression and swallowing disorders in patients with Parkinson's disease, Parkinsonism.Relat Disord., Jul;15(6):453-6
Manor, Y., Mootanah, R., Frued, D., Giladi. N. and Cohen. J. T. (2012). Video assisted swallowing therapy in patients with Parkinson”s disease, Parkinsonism.Relat Disord. 19(2):207-11 Times Cited: 94
Manor, Y., Posen, J., Elboum, L., Rauf, O., and Gurevich. T., (2016). Group speech therapy using humor enhances speech intelligibility and communication skills of people with Parkinson’s disease. International Journal of Parkinson’s Disease 113;130-137
Cohen, N*., Manor, Y*., Green, Y., Tahel, G.. Badichi, I., Ben-Or, G., Shtainshlaifer, N., Shiffer, A., Gabso-Rajuan, M., Kurtzman, H. Shtraifler, L, Furst, T., Shtein, S., Shulman, J., Levin, I., Inbar, N., Hilel, A., Peled, R., Gheriani, N., Ezra, A., Naor, S., Geva, N., Giladi, N. Gurevich, T. (2021). Multidisciplinary Intensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Program for Patients with Moderate-to-Advanced Parkinson’s disease. Neurorehabilitation. 49(1):47-55