Bhupendra Singh Rathore from Rajastan has been volunteering with new initiatives. After successfully organizing two virtual SHG meetings on Google Hangouts, he wants to initiate an SHG in the town he studies- Bhilwara. Below is his appeal to the PWS in Bhilwara and nearby areas. Please help him spread the word: Friends, gone are the […]
Face Your Fear workshop was conducted on August 6th, 2017. It was started at scheduled time with 14 participants and 2 HRs- Ms. Bhaveka Arora and Mr. Gurpreet Singh. Both of them hold atleast five years working experience in human resource departments. The workshop was hosted by Dixit Arora. The introduction session started with introduction […]
An online Google Hangout meeting was organised on Sunday on 6 August 2017. Five members attended this meeting: 1. Bhupendra (Ujjain) 2. Dilip (Ahmednagar) 3. Naresh (Jodhpur) 4. Harnesh (Udaipur) 5. Gridhar (Karnataka) We started at 7:30 am with introduction round after that we all shared our experiences regarding stammering and then we discussed about TISA techniques. It was […]
The theme for this self-help meeting in Delhi was ‘Changing Your Stammering Perception’. The agenda was designed in a manner which would help participants gain understanding about stammering i.e. finding answers to- under what circumstances they stammer more, different emotions that trigger stammering, misconceptions relating to cure (rather, management) of stammering, how does stammering affects effective communication and […]
My Son is a stutterer. He is 20 years of age now. The stuttering emerged when he was about 7 years old. His infancy was marked by frequent hospital admissions due to asthmatic problems and skin problems. He spent quite a lot of his infancy in Hospitals during my service in the Indian Army. As […]
TISA has received the following mail: ——————————————————————— According to The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill 2016,The types of disabilities have been increased from existing 7 to 21. The reservation increased 3 to 4 percentage.(1% for Learning disabilities,Autism,Intellectual disabilities) But reservation not given to some disabilities like Speech and language disabilities. Now […]
SHG Meeting 18th June’2017 Cubbon Park, Bangalore It was a well spent Sunday morning. We met at Cubbon Park, the same old place that I’ve seen in earlier report pics of Bangalore SHG where PWS usually meet. It was my first day in TISA and I reached there by 11AM where I met Anupam, the SHG coordinator and Soumyajit, […]
On Tuesday morning, I woke up to the sad and shocking news of Dr. Akash’s demise. Dr. Akash, who had been a great source of inspiration- humble and down-to-earth, and yet a proud stammerer who opened his presentations accepting he has a stammer. Though it was difficult to digest this development and the circumstances, all […]
30th April 2017..Last Sunday of this month and as always Megaaaaaa SHG was on. It was our 4th Mega SHG which we do constantly on the last Sunday of every Month. The Last 3 Mega SHGs were taken place twice at National Park and once at Pheonix Mall. Also we met once at Bandstand Bandra. […]
Dear All, Bangalore SHG has been consistently doing a great contributions to TISA’s self-help movement for stammering. Times of India (Bangalore) has recognized the SHG’s efforts and featured them in today’s edition. Read here the article on e-paper. Congratulations Bangalore SHG, keep up the great stuff you have always been doing!!
Life is a roller-coaster ride, they say. So is it, for me. Heaving up in joy on days of “easy talk” and tumbling down in anguish on days of “blocked talk”. Life! Right now, I am in a period of relapse. After progress made with tireless toil, I am sliding down. The quiver of lips […]
I am writing this to clarify a couple of misconception that have / may arise. During my past discussions and conversations I often came around two common misconceptions that I want to clarify. Misconception 1: TISA dislikes Speech Therapists TISA doesn’t have any animosity against the Speech Therapists. Our stand about speech therapy is documented […]
Hello, I am Binu and I am a stutterer. Hmm … That felt funny. Even though I know for a fact that my personality, my thoughts, my choices have been mainly influenced by the dreaded stammering, this is probably the first time in my life that I have introduced myself as a “stutterer”. It was always […]
A very happy and joyous Diwali to one and all in TISA family. May the light of Diwali bring joy, prosperity and well being to you and your dear ones. HAPPY DIWALI!
Dear Friends, TISA has been getting lot of enquiries on mail. Most of this enquiries come from internet users looking for help, having a question or just wanting to share. At times, we realize that a person-to-person connection would go a long way in offering a satisfactory help. Moreover, over the years we have seen […]
This ISAD (22nd Oct), TISA launched a brand new website, rich with features and an integrated blog, in line with the changing technology trends. This welcome change was long due, and with rigorous efforts of the TISA tech team – Vishal Gupta, Dhruv Gupta, Dipesh Agarwal and Abhinav Bakshi, it finally saw the light of day. […]
Dont know who started this- but on the third day in Goa, someone said: let us have roll call to see how many of registered participants have actually arrived. During roll call, no one was able to say “Yesss Sirr”! Half of people ran to toilets. So, finally we decided to have a group photo instead […]
Bhawna: Mann Ki Batein… Myself Bhavana Patil from Mumbai SHG. It was my first NC.I was nervous and tense about NC as I was knowing very few people from Mumbai only. But I after reaching Goa I felt a infinite comfort zone when Goa SHG people and other gave us warm welcome . Everyone was introducing […]
After NC I’m feeling enthusiastic and energetic or I can say “I born again”. So I was thinking that why not again I start our Skype calls. And touch base with pws all over the world. Rules, regulations and some suggestion for better output from Skype calls, 1. Be punctual 2. Mute your microphone […]
First of all I would like to thank to all the participants of TISA 6th National Conference and the organisers of the conference who made us feel that we all are family members and are supporting each other in the path of life and shall be standing along with each other in the ups and […]