Media Kit on stammering & TISA

Here is a ‘media kit’ for anyone to translate or adapt and send it to local newspaper or share with media in other ways. It briefly introduces the problem of stammering and TISA’s role. You can email us your translations, so that we can put it up here, for further distribution. Translation credits will be […]

Running Self Help Groups / support groups

“A ship in harbour is safe but that is not what ships were built for” – William Shedd, 19th Century author Following resource material was gratefully adapted from a write up from Michael Sugarman, National Stuttering Project, USA. This article covers two related and important areas: how to counsel others facing speech issues? Second- how […]

Stammering : FAQ

This is a work in progress. If you do not find here what you are looking for, send us an email (satksri@rediffmail.com, akash.acharya@gmail.com). Following info has been collected from diverse sources. In particular we wish to acknowledge the following sources: The Stuttering Homepage (Judith Kuster, Minnesota State University) www.stutteringhelp.org British Stammering Association Indiastammering.com wikipedia.org 1. […]

TISA History

This is a short story of complex social and personal events leading to the beginning of The Indian Stammering Association (TISA). Help from Overseas Up to March/April 2006, several Indian people who stutter had contacted other National Associations (British, American) asking for help. These requests filtered to the International Stuttering Association. Keith (representing ISA and […]

Chennai group- Wonderful!

Chennai group of PWS have met at Marina beach, Chennai between 6.15 & 7.30 PM on 4.5.08 (Sunday). Amazing!Everybody talked about 10 min each. They shared their experiences. After the meeting they decided (their words):“1.Every fortnight, let us meet at Marina beach.2.Add more numbers to our group. For this, one member will give anAD in […]