Valsalva
Stuttering Therapy: A Brief Introduction,
by William D. Parry, CCC-SLP.
Stuttering
Blocks Explained (VIDEO)
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If you stutter, do words sometimes feel like "brick
walls"? Do you repeat, prolong, or force on initial consonants? Do your
blocks get stronger the harder you try to break through them? In this
video, William Parry, a licensed speech pathologist, explains these
common stuttering behaviors, based on his clinical research on Valsalva
Control Therapy. It will show that the problem is not in saying the
consonant, but rather the neurological substitution of effort in place
of phonation of the word's vowel sound. This reaction may be triggered
by the anticipation of difficulty or the urge to use effort to reduce
anxiety.
Stuttering
Blocks and the "Speech Alarm System,"
by William D. Parry, CCC-SLP.
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The Neurological Triggering
of Stuttering
Blocks,
by William D. Parry, CCC-SLP.
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Results of Bill Parry's first clinical study
of Valsalva Control Therapy - plus video showing dramatic initial
results of Phase 2 intensive therapy study - presented at the
National Stuttering
Association annual conference in Ft. Worth, Texas, July 7, 2011.
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Stuttering
and the Valsalva Mechanism: Introduction, by William D. Parry.
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Why is stuttering usually worst when the words
are most important? This article shows how a natural bodily function - the
Valsalva mechanism - may turn our efforts to speak into the very blocks we
are trying so hard to avoid. This introductory article is based on Bill Parry's
presentation to the 1995 World Congress for People Who Stutter
in Linköping, Sweden.
Results of Bill Parry's first clinical study
of Valsalva Control Therapy, presented at the International Stuttering
Association 9th World Congress for People Who Stutter, in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, May 2011.
Detrimental Self-Talk and
Stuttering - A Flow Chart,
by William D. Parry, CCC-SLP.
Diagnosing Valsalva
Stuttering: Suggested Criteria,
by William D. Parry, CCC-SLP.
Stuttering and
the Valsalva Mechanism: A Hypothesis in Need of Investigation, by
William D. Parry in Dec. 1985 issue of Journal of Fluency Disorders.
Being Your Own Best Advocate,
by William D. Parry, Esq. -
based on a pamphlet previously published by the National Stuttering
Association while Bill Parry was a member of its Board of Directors and Chair
of its Advocacy Committee.
Stuttering as a
Disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act, by William D.
Parry, Esq.
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