Chandigarh Workshop Final Day

The 3rd day started with a 45 minute meditation in complete silence.The aim was to give some rest to the speech organs which had been excessively used in the 1st two days of the workshop.Then the stuttering ice-berg was explained that how the visible aspect of this disability forms only about 5% and the major […]

Chandigarh Workshop 2nd day

The 2nd day kicked off with a session on cognitive(thought process) distortions related to stuttering.The facilitator Mr Jai Prakash Sunda thoroughly explained the impact of one’s attitude towards this disability.The participants realized that irrespective of their age,they could still pursue their life-long dreams which earlier they had given up in the name of stuttering.After this,the […]

आशा है जिन्दगी…

हमारे जीवन में अनेक उतार चढाव आते रहते हैं. कभी खुशी, कभी गम. अगर जीवन में दुःख न हो तो हम खुशी का महत्त्व नहीं समझ पाएंगे. हकलाने वाले व्यक्तिओं (मेरे भी) के मन में अक्सर यह विचार आता है कि अगर मैं हकलाता नहीं होता तो बहुत कुछ कर सकता था, अच्छा करियर, अच्छा […]

Chandigarh Workshop 1st day

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Final Details : Communication workshop at Chandigarh

So, FINALLY everything is set for the communication workshop at Chandigarh. Here are the Venue details – YMCA, SECTOR 11-C CHANDIGARH 160011 U.T INDIA Phones :-+91 172-2746732; 2745644. Rooms have been booked for the participants who have confirmed their participation. Here is the Agenda for three days : http://www.scribd.com/doc/58090786/Chandigarh-Workshop-Agenda One clarification – Rs 1000 is […]

Suchit,The Rockstar

I am writing this article after watching the finale of Roadies 8,a youth based reality show broadcasted on MTV in India.Suchit was a contestant on this show who went on in the Finale.And yes,he stammers.I saw him stammering when he was being auditioned.The judges grilled him mercilessly on purpose to test him and seeing his […]

Cochin SHG Meeting Held

As planned, me (Shorn), Prasad and Vicky met up in Marine Drive, Cochin, today in morning. We were all meeting each other for the first time and i believe, this is the first formal Stammering SHG meet-up in Kerala. We had our formal introductions, shared our experiences related to stammering and talked about and practiced […]

Am join my friend’s Web Hosting…

Hello everyone, How are you,… Now my stammering is ok mean not very bad and i am feeling my confidence is increased. Now I talk almost every person, On call or mouth to mouth.  my stammering took me very dark place but now almost i never feel my stammering and this is why I talk […]

How TISA helped me

Well I must say, being a severe stutterer at times, and not having a Self-Help-Group in my city, I find the TISA blog a shoulder-to-cry-on. Its not that I have been ignorant about stuttering, I have been living with it for the last 11 years. I am 21 now, and stuttering devastated my teenage and […]

I Have Stopped Taking Nonsense

This is regarding an incident that happened when I was at my training a month back.I was talking to a senior (not a senior really,he has done a two year diploma and hence started working 2 years before me,he is like 6 months older than me) about how I had to give a presentation at […]

A Prince who stutters

My cousin brother Parlhad is here for his summer vacations. He is 14 years old, studying in 9th standard and he too stammers! (TOO ? who else stammers ?? I too stammer :-). He read Izabella ( link) and then both of us shared it with the whole family by bouncing and stammering beautifully and […]

Cochin SHG

Me and Prasad(who have been to Pune SHG) have planned to meetup on 18th June, ie the third saturday this month,at Marine Drive, Ernakulam. The said timing is 10.00 AM to 11 AM. The motive is General conversing on topics related to stammering and SHG’s. If anyone interested to join us, please contact Me(8089619366) or […]

Confusion about bouncing in real world

I learnt bouncing from herburtpur workshop and I think that I’ll start it in real life also, because it provide us to speak the hard words with ease and I enjoyed it. But now it seems so much a tuff work for me “to use bouncing”. Sometime I start bouncing and it getting worse and […]

My Quest for Fluency

Ever since I realized that I had disfluency in my speech, I have been craving to find fluency. And thus began an endless journey- a quest for fluency! The first time I was introduced to formal speech therapy was when I was 10. A relative recommended a speech therapist practicing at the Goa Medical College, […]

Does anyone benefited by using mirror?

Hello to all Myself Umesh here, Again I want to share something which I do and which seems benefited to me. In one of stammering book, I read that watching yourself while talking is really helps you to gain control on your speech and speech muscles .It is also know that if we practice in […]