>Something I (as a person with a mild stutter with solely blocks/pauses) have used quite succesfully is 'soft contacts' (1), making sure breaths are not shallow (2) and when I block, just immediatly stop 'pushing' and carry on saying the rest of the word (3). This! I agree that light articulatory contacts, normal breathing and interrupting tension or excessive air pressure (when blocking), and skipping sounds is effective to improve stuttering. Each letter has multiple sounds like pronouncing the letter /P/, first mouth position is closed where lips touch each other, and the second mouth position is open and you hear 'Pee'. If I block on the first sound /P/ (when my mouth position is closed), then I skip this sound but I continue on the next sound of the same letter. I prefer skipping a sound (over skipping a letter) because, if I block on the first 'sound', then basically I already 'said' this sound so even if I call it 'skipping' a sound, in reality I never skipped a sound. I hope this makes sense and thus I never perceive avoidance-behavior leading to more confidence that I was able to pronounce all the sounds