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Are you puzzled about stuttering blocks? Do you wonder why words sometimes feel as if they contain “brick walls” even before you try to say them? Or why blocks often target the most important words – especially when saying them really matters? Or why trying to force out words usually makes blocks even stronger?
If so, here is a book, written in clear, every-day language, that fits together the pieces of the stuttering puzzle more completely than ever before. The key to its approach is the Valsalva Hypothesis – which explains the psychological, neurological, and physiological factors that interfere with a person’s natural speaking ability. It describes how these factors interact to suppress phonation of a word’s main vowel sound and replace it with an impulse to exert force on the preceding consonant or glottal stop by means of a Valsalva maneuver. The blocks are then reinforced and perpetuated through a "Valsalva-Stuttering Cycle."
This Ultimate Expanded Fourth Edition sheds new light on virtually every aspect of stuttering – its causes, its variability, its paradoxes, and its many forms of treatment. Finally, it provides detailed instructions for exercises that were developed through actual clinical experience and experimentation involving more than 200 participants in Valsalva Stuttering Therapy from all over the world. The resulting exercises and strategies are designed to relax the body’s Valsalva mechanism, promote vowel phonation, dissolve stuttering blocks, and improve attitudes about speaking, thereby allowing you to speak in an easier, natural-sounding way.