Bryng Bryngelson
1892-1979
Bryng Bryngelson was a key historical figure in the profession because he was among the early founders and past president of the national organization and because he studied at Iowa in its heyday, working on a dissertation under the direction of Wendell Johnson.
Bryngelson’s specialty was stuttering and his research was to support the dominance theory of stuttering which held that stuttering originated in people because they did not have a left-dominant brain hemisphere.
Bryngelson was born in Otisco, Minnesota on April 22, 1892.
His undergraduate degree was from Carleton College in 1916. He attended Yale University Graduate School from 1920-1921. From there he went to the University of Iowa from 1924-1926 receiving masters’ degree from the in 1926. In 1926-1927 he served as a research fellow at the Department of Speech at the University of Wisconsin. After his time in Wisconsin, Bryngelson took a position at the University of Minnesota. During his tenure there he returned to Iowa for a Ph.D. which he obtained in 1931.
Among Bryngelson’s contributions in Minnesota were the establishment of a number of speech clinics. In 1927 Bryngleson was hired by the University of Minnesota to start a clinic in the Speech Department (1927) and later in the Department of Pediatrics (1931). Finally, in 1945, Bryngelson began an aphasia clinic at the V. A. Hospital. Founded Minnesota Speech and Hearing Association.
Bryngelson became the director of the speech pathology program in Minneapolis in 1933, and was promoted as professor in that department in 1940. He continued in that position until 1960 when he retired.
Bryngelson served the newly formed national organization , the early days of ASHA, in different capacities. He was treasurer from 1933 to 1942 and president from 1943-1944. He became a fellow of ASHA in 1932 and received the highest honors of the association in 1963.
Writings of Bryng Bryngelson, arranged chronologically
Bryngelson, B. (1926). A study of the articulatory difficulties in thirteen stutterers. Unpublished MS thesis, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Bryngelson, B. (1931). Treatment of stuttering. Journal of Expression, 5, 19-26.
Bryngelson, B. (1932). A phonophotographic analysis of the vocal disturbances in stuttering. Psychological Monographs, 43, 1-30.
Bryngelson, B., & Clark, T. (1933a). Left handedness and stuttering. Journal of Heredity, 24, 387-390.
Bryngelson, B. (1933b). The reeducation of speech failures, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 19, 227-229
Fink, W., & Bryngelson, B. (1934). The relation of strabismus to right or left sidedness. Transactions of the American Academy of Opthalmology and Otolaryngology, 3-12.
Bryngelson, B. (1934). The problem of sidedness and its relationship to stuttering. Proceedings of the American Society for the Study of Disorders of Speech, 4, 63-70.
Bryngelson, B. (1935a). A method of stuttering. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 30, 194-198.
Bryngelson, B. (1935b). Now we laugh with stutterers. Journal of Arkansas Education, 9, 20-21.
Bryngelson, B. (1935c). Sidedness as an etiological factor in stuttering. Pedagogical Seminary and J. Genet Psychol., 47, 204-217.
Bryngelson, B. (1935d). Speech problems and speech care. Hygeia, 13, 888-890.
Bryngelson, B. (1935e). Voluntary stuttering. Proceedings of the American Society for the Study of Disorders of Speech, 5, 35-38.
Bryngelson, B. (1935f). Speech problems and speech care. Hygeia, 13, 1-3.
Bryngelson, B. (1937). Psychological problems in stuttering. Mental Hygiene, 21, 631-639.
Bryngelson, B., & Rutherford, B. (1937). A comparative study of laterality of stutterers and non-stutterers. Journal of Speech Disorders, 2, 15-16.
Bryngelson, B. (1938a). The interpretive symbol. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 24, 569-573.
Bryngelson, B. (1938b). Prognosis of stuttering. Journal of Speech Disorders, 3, 121-123.
Bryngelson, B. (1938c). Psychologic factors in the management of the exceptional child. Journal of Exceptional Children, 5, 65-67.
Bryngelson, B. (1938d). Treatment of stuttering in children. Speech (London), 3, 9-12, 17-10.
Bryngelson, B. (1938e). Unaccustomed as I am... Hygeia, 16, 968-970.
Bryngelson, B. (1939). A study of laterality of stutterers and normal speakers. Journal of Speech Disorders, 4, 231-234.
Bryngelson, B., & Brown, S. (1939). Season of birth of speech defectives in Minnesota. Journal of Speech Disorders, 4, 319-322.
Bryngelson, B. (1940a). A study of laterality of stutterers and normal speakers. Speech, 5(3), 13-16.
Bryngelson, B. (1940b). A study of the laterality of stutterers and normal speakers. Journal of Social Psychology, 11, 151-155.
Bryngelson, B. (1941). Prognosis of stuttering. Journal of Speech Disorders, 6, 121-123.
Hull, H. & Bryngelson, B. (1941). A study of respiration of fourteen spastic paralysis cases during silence and speech. Speech Monographs, 8, 114-121.
Bryngelson, B. (1942). Investigation in the etiology and nature of dysphemia and its symptom, stuttering. Journal of Speech Disorders, 7, 15-27.
Bryngelson, B. (1943a). Exploitation of stutterers. Journal of Education (London), 126, 78-79.
Bryngelson, B. (1943b). The stuttering personality and development. Nervous Child, 2, 162-171.
Bryngelson, B., & Chapman, M. (1944). Treatment of stuttering. Know yourself--a workbook for those who stutter. Minneapolis, MN: Burgess.
Bryngelson, B. (1958). Speech of stutterers, before and after treatment [Sound Film]. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota.
Bryngelson, B., Chapman, M., & Hanson, O. (1949, 1955, 1958, 1966). Know yourself: A workbook for those who stutter. Minneapolis, MN: Burgess.
Bryngelson, B. & Mikalson, Elaine (1959). Speech correction through listening: A program of stories and games for retraining children with articulatory problems. A teacher resource book. Chicago, IL: Scott Foresman.
Bryngelson, B., & Galaspy, E. (1962). Improving articulation. Chicago, Il: Scott-Foresman & Co.
Bryngelson, B. (1964). Personality development through speech: Getting next to yourself. Minneapolis, MN: T. S. Denison & Co., Inc.
Bryngelson, B. (1966). Clinical group therapy for problem people: A practical treatise for stutterers and normal speakers. Minneapolis, MN: T. S. Denison.
Web information about Bryngelson:
From the website of Judith Kuster:
http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/pioneers/bryngelson/cvrbryng.html Charles Van Riper remembers Bryng Bryngelson
http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/pioneers/bryngelson/bryngbib.html: Bibliography
http://www.mnsu.edu/dept/comdis/kuster/pioneers/bryngelson/brynghonors.html: Honors of ASHA.
http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/pioneers/bryngelson/bryng.html: Biographical Notes
Writings about Bryngelson
Hahn, Eugene & Hahn, Elise (1943/1956). Bryng Bryngelson. In their book Stuttering: significant theories and therapies. (pp. 14-23) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Obituary ASHA, 22, 1980, p. 107.