A new stuttering therapy to improve fluency by controlling the physiological mechanism that may be causing your stuttering blocks.
William D. Parry, Esq., CCC-SLP
A licensed speech-language pathologist and trial lawyer, with over 25 years experience in stuttering support and advocacy and author of Understanding & Controlling Stuttering: A Comprehensive New Approach Based on the Valsalva Hypothesis.
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□ If you are a person who stutters (stammers), do words sometimes feel like "brick walls"? Do you repeat, prolong, or force on initial consonants? Do you sometimes choke on words that start with vowels? Do your blocks get stronger the harder you try to break through them? □ Are you able to speak fluently some of the time, but find yourself blocking on words when speech is most important (e.g., introducing yourself, ordering in a restaurant, or talking on the phone or to groups or to authority figures)? □ Have you tried various stuttering therapies and fluency-shaping techniques in an effort to stop stuttering, but found them to be ineffective, unnatural sounding, distracting, or too hard to maintain? □ Are you reluctant to spend thousands of dollars on stuttering therapy programs or electronic fluency devices that may not really be the "stuttering cure" you were hoping for? |
Valsalva Stuttering Therapy offers people who stutter a new opportunity to enjoy easy, effortless speech without drugs, without electronic devices, and without unnatural-sounding speaking techniques.
Valsalva Stuttering Therapy is a comprehensive new approach for treating the most common form of stuttering, often referred to as “persistent developmental stuttering.” Valsalva Stuttering Therapy is based on the realization that most stuttering is caused not by a lack of ability to speak, but rather by an interference with that ability. This interference is physiological in nature, but it may be triggered by various psychological factors. In addition to addressing the psychological factors, Valsalva Stuttering Therapy promotes easy, natural speech by controlling the physiological mechanism that causes stuttering blocks.
Rather than focusing on controlling one's speech, Valsalva Stuttering Therapy is aimed at relaxing the Valsalva mechanism and reducing the urge to exert effort, so as to free the person’s own natural speaking ability. This therapy intentionally does not emphasize fluency, because any effort to “stop stuttering” would tend to activate the Valsalva mechanism and be self-defeating. Instead, the goal is to make speech easier and more enjoyable.
I have personally known the agony of stuttering. After many stuttering therapies failed to help me stop stuttering, I discovered a new approach that dramatically increased my fluency and enabled me to become a successful trial lawyer. Over the past 27 years, I have been sharing my ideas and leading support group meetings for people who stutter. To further my goal of helping those who stutter, I am now a licensed and ASHA-certified speech-language pathologist.
I offer a promising new approach to reducing stuttering blocks through Valsalva Stuttering Therapy (which I developed and which has helped me and others). I provide in-person stuttering therapy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and over the Internet by webcam (subject to applicable law). My approach includes both physiological and psychological aspects of Valsalva Control, aimed at achieving easy, effortless speech in all speaking situations.
E-mail me at stutteringtherap@aol.com for further information or to arrange a free consultation.
Learn more about Valsalva Stuttering Therapy and whether it is appropriate for you.
New Insights and Tools To Beat Stuttering Blocks
(NEW ARTICLE based on my presentation at the 2011 NSA conference explaining stuttering blocks and showing results of Valsalva Control Therapy, including video.)
NEW VIDEO
Stuttering and the Valsalva Mechanism: A Key to Understanding and Controlling Stuttering Blocks
Last revised: 1/26/2012