Foundations in Manual Therapy:
Voice & Swallowing Disorders with Walt Fritz

Friday & Saturday 4-5 July 2025, 9.00-17.00
Venue: Bridewell Centre, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4 8RQ

This two-day course teaches you to understand and apply manual therapy (MT) as a
multifactorial tool for treating voice and swallowing disorders. Using a biopsychosocial
approach to evaluation and intervention, you will gain hands-on experience of the value of
MT. The course is ideal for speech language therapists and anyone working with singing or
spoken voice, who is dealing with such issues as swallowing problems, oral-motor disorders,
tongue dysfunction, jaw opening and function, breathing, pain, and performance limitations.

Three weeks in advance of the course, participants will receive a two-hour introductory video
which must be watched before attending.

The maximum number of places available is 29.

Cost: Early Bird BVA Member: £350.00; Non-member: £380.00 (until 16 May)
BVA Member: £380.00; Non-member: £410.00 (from 17 May onwards)

Queries to: administrator@britishvoiceassociation.org.uk

Walt Fritz is a leading educator in the practice of Manual Therapy in
speech pathology/therapy and voice intervention for laryngeal and breathing disorders, oral motor
dysfunction and related issues. Unlike some more historical practices, which can be more aggressive
and assumes a single-cause view of problems, Walt’s approach includes newer models that point to
multifactorial causes and effects. It does not position the practitioner as expert, but uses a shared
decision-making process that empowers the patient and improves outcomes.

Through workshops all over the world, Walt has taught thousands of SLPs, vocal coaches, dental
hygienists, physical therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, massage therapists,
osteopaths, chiropractors and ENT specialists. He holds an MA in Professional Practice from the
University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UK), a BS in Physical Therapy, and a BA in Community
Mental Health through the University at Buffalo (NY). Walt is a research supervisor at the Voice Study
Centre (UK), spearheading research into MT’s place in voice and related disorders. His Upstate New
York practice treats patients with voice and swallow-related problems, as well as other conditions.