Author: Harish Usgaonker

I am 25 years old, person who stammer (PWS). I took speech therapy first time when I was 17, for 6 months & I was fluent for an year or so, but returned to my old habits soon..This is the same thing which I have observed in a lot of people in my self help […]

I always think what is that what holds us back? Is it our stammer or for that matter any other disability or is it our mental attitude or we really don’t know what we want.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8160700.stm gives a good thought to the subject.

Hi All,We are now meeting every sunday at a new and convenient indoor place at the below mentioned address:Senior citizen’s hall,Opposite Anil Ambani Reliance Communications.Dhole patil road. PunePlease contact me (9881255051) in case of any issue locating this address. The sessions we conduct @Pune are getting really interesting by each passing day. It’s very amazing […]

Dear FriendIt’s not often I email you with a fundraising issue – but this is something quite special:BSA member Rachel Reed is going to cross the Channel in support of the BSA. We’ve had 5km runs, 10km runs, even a Marathon but never a Herculean effort such as this. Just cycling to work for me […]

Akash and Hetal from Surat SHG met on Friday the 31st July evening. This time instead of my boring University office, we decided to meet at ‘A lot can happen over coffee’ place, CCD. Looking to the buzz, I felt like relishing an Irish Coffee but the place was little too exciting and it was […]

Pune SHG have found a new place and are having their regular weekend meet at the below mentioned address on sundays at 3 pm. Senior citizen’s hall. (also known as Desai Hall) Opposite Reliance web world. Dhole patil road. Pune

I want to share the following incidents to this blog.On Tuesday at 11.30 AM, I received a call form one gentle man from Trivandrum (Kerala),came to Chennai today morning for an official work. As the work was over he wanted to meet me. He stuttered mildly. I asked him to come to my office. He […]

The venue for the Pune Self Help Group get together on 4th and 5th July 2009 is an Information Technology firm at Rajiv Gandhi IT Park, phase – 1, Hinjewadi, Pune. Call me for details and registrations. There has been slight modification in the agenda. Now the movies are not on a single day but […]

Yesterday I had a great experience, and I want to share that with you all. I’ve told you earlier that I work in a software product development company as a project manager. Yesterday we had to give a demo/sales presentation of our new product on Knowledge Management, to a leading private insurance company HQed in […]

I read somewhere that in Harry Potter movie (perhaps there are more than one and I am completely ignorant about series) one character Professor Quirrell stutters and he has been portrayed in a way that strengthens the negative stereotypes about stuttering. Looking to the fact that children constitute majority of viewers, many CWS (who are […]

Hi, As you all know we had planned for an intensive therapy camp at Samagra Ashram, Dehradun for 13th – 15th June; due to various reason that camp couldn’t go through. I was kinda depressed due to that, and seeing that Sachin sir invited me to Ashram, and I decided to go there with my […]

Hi, We will be meeting tomorrow i.e. 06-June-2009. Details are: Venue: Central Park, Connaught Place, New DelhiTime: 3:00 PM onwards Anybody who wants to joins us, give me a call at 98183 50799. Cheers Nitin

In last few months I’ve talked to a lot of stutterers, and I’ve found that most of them are letting their lives controlled by their stuttering. It has become the proverbial tail that wags the dog. In my opinion, the first step towards controlling stuttering will be to give it only it’s due importance. Life […]

At the beginning of this year, I made a resolution to be able to control my stuttering. I got on to it on war footing – doing reading practice for 30 minutes in the morning, talking to fellow PWS for two hours in the evening through Skype, and organizing and attending TISA meetings on week-ends. […]

Hi, I’ve been terribly busy in last few days, first due to the birth of my daughter and then work. In last 2-3 weeks, we haven’t been able to have the meets in the way we would like them to be. So from this week, we are back on it with a vengeance  Delhi […]

Hi, Delhi SHG meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, 11-Apr-2009 at Central Park, Connaught Place, New Delhi at 2:00 PM. As planned in the last meet, the agenda for this one will be seminars by every member. Since it won’t be possible to have so many seminars in one meet, we’ll divide it over two weeks. […]

British Stammering Association (BSA) National Conferencehttp://www.stammering.org/conf.html