ALS Learning Series

Covering a wide range of topics, the ALS Learning Series is designed to empower the ALS community through the latest information and insights from financial planning to respiratory care and more. These educational webinars and interactive Q&As are hosted monthly by the Les Turner ALS Foundation and archived for later viewing below.

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Upcoming Webinar

ALS Learning Series

Voice Preservation Beyond Recording: Creating and Using My Preserved Voice 

Thursday, July 24, 2025, at 12pm CT

Join us for a comprehensive review of current best practices and tools in Message Banking, Voice Banking, and Voice Cloning, including the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in voice preservation. After a diagnosis of a progressive condition that impacts speech, an urgent priority is preserving one's voice.  However, recording your voice is only the first step. Part of the feature matching process is to determine compatibility and integration of one's preserved voice into communication apps and software. We will cover the full process from recording through integration, updates on current technologies, including AI’s role in voice preservation, and treatment recommendations for using one's preserved voice most effectively and efficiently for functional communication. 

The Les Turner ALS Foundation is proud to offer this webinar at no cost to the ALS community. Thank you to the Gilbert & Jacqueline Fern Foundation & Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America for sponsoring this webinar. 

About the Speaker: Lane Rials, MS, CCC-SLP 

Lane RialsLane Rials is a Speech-Language Pathologist with a passion for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and helping others. I've been privileged to work closely with many people living with ALS and their caregivers/families as a speech pathologist, regional AAC consultant, and now as an AAC Specialist with the team at Bridging Voice.

Lane has been a speech-language pathologist for 22 years in a variety of settings, from schools, private clinics, acute care, skilled nursing facilities, and home health for adults. Before joining Bridging Voice, she was a regional AAC consultant for a communication device manufacturer for 3.5 years. Her interest in working with people living with ALS more directly developed in her time there, but her interest in AAC started about 10 years ago.  


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The ALS Learning Series is made possible by a generous donation from the Gilbert and Jacqueline Fern Foundation and our industry partners.
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