Light Contacts Strategy

This physical speech strategy audio recording explains what Light Contacts are and how to create them. Listen to this 48 minute audio recording to learn how all of the sounds of English are created with the articulators and vocal folds. Listen and repeat after me as you learn how to create tension free contacts on each sound at the word level and then at the sentence level. Initially you hold the sound out as you feel the light contact in your mouth.

The accompanying 15 page pdf includes all practice exercises and also has a hierarchy for you to create and use as you transfer the use of this strategy out into your real-life. You will rate all of your speaking situations from the easiest to the most challenging and then use this with the real-life practice worksheet. There is a homework sheet included to structure your practice along with the real-life practice sheet to plan how you will daily little by little bring this way of talking out into your real-life speaking situations. This is a speech control strategy. Not every strategy or approach is helpful or appropriate for every person who stutters. This is a self-therapy activity for adults and teens. You must be highly self-motivated to implement this on your own.