Charles Van Riper

Hello World!

"The first thing Charles Van Riper would do every morning of my 14 years of knowing him was command his 'bloody old bones' to walk down the flight of stairs, venture out to the doorstep and call out, "Hello World!" He said with a grin that he'd keep doing it until he'd get a reply." (Andrew Amor).

Especially for People Who Stutter

A Message from Charles Van Riper from the NSP newsletter.
I Swore an Oath Unto a Birch Tree
Letter from Van Riper to Andreas Starke
Basic Experiences for Intermediate Stutterers

His Professional Contributions

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Honors, reported in JSHD, Vol. 22, No. 1 March 1957, p. 134-5.
Complete Bibliography of Charles Van Riper's work
Below are articles from the bibliography that are online:
- Stuttering Therapy in 2050 A.D., in Emerick, L.L., and Hamre, C.I. (ed.) An Analysis of Stuttering, Danville, Ill., 1972, pp. 808-812.
- How Are You Doing, Dr. Van?, WMU Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing , Volume 24, 1987, 1-2.
- Recollections From A Pioneer, ASHA, June-July 1989, p. 72-73
- Guest Editorial: To Our Clinicians, written in 1979, and published, but we don't know where.
- Van Riper, C., "A Handful of Nuts A Handful of Nuts," WMU Journal of Speech Therapy, Volume 11, 1974, II, 1-3.
- Van Riper, C., To the Parents of a Stuttering Child, Staff , Volume 1, 1991, p. 1
- Van Riper, C., An Early History of ASHA, ASHA, November 1981, Vol. 23:11, p. 855-858.
- Van Riper, C., "Again to Cope," Michigan Speech Association Journal, Volume 1, 1966, 2-8.
- Van Riper, C., "The Public School Specialist in Stuttering", Asha, Volume 19, 1977, 467-469.
- Van Riper, C., "Stuttering: Where and Whither", Asha, Volume 16, 1974, 483-487.
- Chapter 2 from Speech Therapy: A Book of Readings, edited by Charles Van Riper, published in 1953 (pages 43-111 of the original book featuring articles of various length by Robert West, Wendell Johnson, Lee Edward Travis, Smiley Blanton, Isador Coriat, George Wischner, Joseph Sheehan, Stanley Ainsworth, Hildreth Schuell, Charles Bluemel, Bryng Bryngelson, Emil Froeschels, Philip Glasner, and many other early pioneers. (in PDF format).
- Van Riper, C., (under the editorship of Wendell Johnson) Stuttering, Chicago, National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, 1949. (PDF)
- The Treatment of Stuttering by Charles Van Riper (1973), Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, pages 203-368. Study notes by Darrell Dodge.
An ASHA Convention Presentation (warning - this is 5 huge jpgs of the actual pages CVR used for his presentation. For those that cannot view the presentation this way, it is also available as text. JAK).
Therapy for the Severe Older Adolescent and Adult Stutterer by George G. Helliesen, a retired SLP explains Van Riper treatment strategies in a 70 page online book, made available online by Journal of Stuttering Therapy, Advocacy & Research (JSTAR)

Audio presentations

1957 - ASHA convention panel on "recovery."

and responding to a few questions

Added June 4, 2003. Updated Nov. 14, 2016
1959 - Concepts of Group Therapy (35 minutes) - Part of a lecture at a Symposium on Stuttering sponsored by the UW-Madison

Added May 5, 2004. Updated November 14, 2016
1962 - Causes, Nature and Development of Stuttering refers to the famous Birch Tree

Added February 1, 2004. Updated November 14, 2016 (permission of Luther Sies, who produced and edited the original tape).
1975 - interview by Anders Lundberg and Lennart Larsson from Sweden.

Added June 4, 2003. Updated November 14, 2016
Date unknown - Treatment of the Young Stutterer
Nov. 20, 1966 - Presentation for the Council of Adult Stutterers "I am a member of the clan of the Tangled Tongue"

Added April 18, 2004. Updated November 14, 2016

Peter Reitzes' StutterTalk Podcasts about Charles Van Riper.

Charles Van Riper: A Voice from the Past (Ep. 164) Dec. 6, 2009 StutterTalk podcast with Peter Reitzes and Eric Jackson discussing an interview with Charles Van Riper from the Voices: Past and Present section of the Stuttering Homepage.
Crucial Stuttering Experiences (Ep. 385) Feb. 10, 2013 StutteringTalk podcast featuring Peter Reitzes with Reuben Schuff and Joel Korte discussing Charles Van Riper's list of 15 crucial stuttering experiences in speech therapy.

Up close and personal - biography, personal story, interviews

The Riper Family genealogy page. First page of "VAN RIPER FAMILY" (1980 but never published) by Charles Gage Van Riper (1905-1994) is a part of this interesting website.
Van Riper - some interesting Van Riper genealogical and family information written by Joseph Edwards Van Riper III (Trey), the great-grandson of Dr. Paul Van Riper who was Charles Van Riper's father.
The Van Riper Legacy by Ed Litwin as part of the History of the Marquette General Hospital Regional Medical Center, provides some information about Charles Van Riper, as well as his father, Paul.
Charles Van Riper -- His Curse Became His Acclaim, article by Tom Thinnes, Encore, January 1990, pp. 9-20
Charles Van Riper 1905-1994 - biography by Judy Duchan
A photo album - pictures taken by Andrew Amor.
Books by Cully Gage - Van Riper's pen name for the popular stories he wrote about the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
A Spiral Notebook of some of Van Riper's journaling - previously unpublished material to our knowledge.
A woodcut by Charles Van Riper.
Tale from the Northwoods a poem by Barbara Goldberg.
The Van Ripers remember Bryng Bryngelson
Other Late-life Thoughts of Dr. Charles Van Riper from Hospice News.
Good-bye World.

His friends, family, and former clients remember

Former Clients of Charles Van Riper Remember - Joe Agnello, Gretchen Fifer, and Jerry Johnson prepared for the International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conference, Oct. 1-22, 1999
Change: Potential Qualities Become Actualities by Joseph G. Agnello, who studied under and had therapy with Charles Van Riper.
The Joyous Pathfinder: Charles Van Riper 1905 - 1994 by Albert T. Murphy
On Charles Van Riper by Bob Erickson
A Man Who Blessed Others by Gail Wilson Lew (first appearing in Letting Go)
Things Remembered - a place to post your own Van Riper stories.
Tributes to Charles Van Riper - a place to post your own tribute.
Wendell Johnson And Charles Van Riper: A Remembrance of Them and Their Era by Dave Williams
A few pictures taken by Gretchen Fifer after the Celebration of Life Memorial Service.
The Man Changed My Life - - As a Writer by Jeb Waldschmidt
A Tribute to "Dr. Van" by Dr. C. Woodruff Starkweather
Dr. Van by Gerald and Maxine Johnson
I owe him the greatest gratitude - by Fred Murray
Van Riper information from Frances Freeman's Blog Communicating Life2