This page is intended to provide information for persons
wishing to explore the Valsalva Control
approach to reducing their stuttering blocks. It is not a substitute
for individual diagnosis, stuttering therapy, and counseling by a
qualified speech-language pathologist or other appropriate health-care
professional.
New
Insights and Tools To Beat Stuttering Blocks,
by William D. Parry, CCC-SLP.
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.
NEW
Results of Bill Parry's first clinical study
of Valsalva Control Therapy, presented at the International Stuttering
Association's 9th World Congress for People Who Stutter, in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, May 2011.
NEW
Introduction to
Stuttering, "Valsalva Stuttering" and Valsalva Control,
by William D. Parry, CCC-SLP.
Stuttering
and the Valsalva Mechanism: A Key To Understanding and Controlling Stuttering
Blocks,
by William D. Parry, CCC-SLP.
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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. It explains why it is so hard for people who
stutter to stop stuttering, and suggests a new approach to stuttering
therapy. This introductory article is based on Bill Parry's
presentation to the 1995 World Congress for People Who Stutter
in Linköping, Sweden.
Detrimental Self-Talk and
Stuttering - A Flow Chart,
by William D. Parry, CCC-SLP.
NEW
William Parry's workshop presentation at
the NSA conference in July 2009:
Video excerpts from the
"Beating Stuttering Blocks" workshop
Beating Stuttering Blocks
(PowerPoint)
Beating Stuttering Blocks
(PDF)
Diagnosing Valsalva
Stuttering: Suggested Criteria,
by William D. Parry, CCC-SLP.
Beating
Stuttering Blocks: Some Basic Suggestions for Valsalva Control Stuttering
Therapyl,
by William D.
Parry, CCC-SLP.
For information on participating the Valsalva
Control research project, go to:
www.valsalva.org/research.htm
For those interested in William Parry's book:
Understanding and Controlling
Stuttering: A Comprehensive New Approach Based on the Valsalva Hypothesis
- Information about William Parry's book, available from
the National Stuttering Association and Amazon.com.
Other Sources of Information
and Support:
The
National Stuttering Association
The Philadelphia Area
Chapter of the National Stuttering Association
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Stuttering Foundation of America
Stuttering
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