Begin vibrating your vocal folds quietly, and gradually increase your volume. This gradually increases vocal fold tension. When a word starts with a consonant, lightly touch your lips or tongue to make the sound, for a moment, quietly, and then stretch the vowel and increase your volume on the vowel. Some fluency shaping programs use biofeedback computers to display your loudness contour . The computers also give you error messages when you make a mistake.
Stretched vowels are usually the most effective fluency technique.
With gentle onset, you stretched the first vowel of a phrase. With the stretched vowel target, you stretch all your vowels. Because your vocal folds vibrate to produce vowels, stretching your vowels keeps your vocal folds vibrating, and you don't stutter. If you listen to a tape your stuttering, you may notice that you shorten the syllable before a stuttered block. You speed up to get a running start into a feared word.