At Parkinson Movement, we offer psychotherapy for Parkinson disease. Check out the positive reviews for our movement disorder counselor and Parkinson support group in Atlanta.
Maureen has been my mom's personal trainer for several years now. We first met Maureen at the Dunwoody Baptist Gym and were very happy with the progress my mom made while working with her. Once COVID hit, we realized we were not comfortable taking my mom to the gym, so we asked Maureen if she would be willing to come to our home. That was in early 2020, and we have never been happier that we made that decision. My mom just turned 90 and is still able to move around without a walker, take walks, get herself in and out of her tub every night, and dress. Maureen's workouts are a perfect combination of strength training, balance, and memory. We absolutely credit Maureen with helping ensure that my mom stays physically and mentally strong and is very likely a key reason why she is still healthy and happy at 90!”
Maureen McCord has been my physical trainer for the last 5 years. She sees me twice a week for 1 hour. She is extremely knowledgeable about all parts of the body and how to exercise and stretch my body in ways that help body stiffness and sore muscles. She is very helpful with attention to my back and stiffness due to Parkinson's and my need for overall physical fitness. I fully recommend her.
Maureen McCord was magnificent in working with my husband who had Parkinson’s Disease. She taught him life-saving skills such as how to get himself up from a fall and increased his muscle strength and exercised his mental skills. She adapted her instruction to deal with his individual needs and developed a great rapport. I highly recommend Maureen McCord who will make a positive impact with anyone who is fortunate enough to work with her.
I have been a client of Maureen for 10 years. She is very knowledgeable about body mechanics and how to incorporate ways to motivate her clients into her sessions. Through her sessions, I have improved my strength, my mobility and my balance. I went from a person who did not exercise at all to one who looks forward to her sessions. She can adapt exercises to your goals, your ability and age. I highly recommend her if you are looking for a person who can motivate and assist you to reach your exercise goals..
Maureen McCord! She offers the perfect exercises and nutritional education for those of us with a diagnosis of PD. Maureen is an excellent communicator and fitness instructor. The short, concise program is valuable in terms of dietary education and movement of the body which is so very important with this movement disorder. Contact Maureen for a professional approach to enrich your life!
Parkinson Movement
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to