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There are four senses through which we can develop awareness of our speech instrument - sound, sight, touch and tension. In this page, we are going to focus our attention on the sensation of touch (tactile) on our tongue, as well as the touch on the various regions of the roof of our mouth. This touch awareness is most relevant for creating different consonant sounds, as they are usually articulated by touch one part of the speech instrument to another. For each exercise, be sure to practice silently with eyes close, so you can focus all of your attentional resource on the touch sensation. For sharing to #practice or your small group, I recommend working with the tongue touch map at the bottom of this page, and showing the viewers of your loom what you are moving with your mouth.

Sensing Touch with the Palate

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Up until now, we’ve only focused on sensing touch with the Tongue, as the tongue is both the more active articulator and more sensitive organ to touch. But we also have touch receptors in our palate, the place that the tongue is touching. In this video, I walk you through the various regions of the palate and show you how the sound.

Touch Points

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Try recording a loom of yourself moving through these different points, verbally stating to the viewer which part of the tongue you are moving to which part of the roof, and then creating sounds from that point. Share to #practice or your small group for feedback.