from the battle front!

A little insight into the kind of commitment we need, in order to help ourselves… “….Namaste sir, please find the following the month long activity from first week of dec(had talked to you after my brother’s marriage) to first week of january. I am stil at village with java mobile,which unables post on tisa blog. […]

Manpreet’s blog helps a young pws…

Friends, we have received a genuine sharing from a young pws. It is also a very good example of self help, hence we are offering it here, as it is. Please excuse the language. ………………… Satsiakal frnds i am lovely from panjab..today i telling u my stammering story..a road to fluency..stammering is started when i […]

AMU Communication workshop

27th Dec. : I arrived on the evening before (26th Dec); Sikandar had arranged for our stay at the guest house on the campus- thanks to Disability unit (thanks a lot, Dr Abdul Fazli!). Next day, we started at 10 am. About twenty participants were there in inaugural session, presided by Dr Abdul Fazli (link). […]

Inspiring and True!

Add caption “My incapacity for spontaneous speech led to a highly developed skill for improvisation. My adaptations were so successful that most of my peers and professors probably did not even know I stuttered. Later, I would learn that hiding my stutter only perpetuated my anxiety and frustration with my speech. The skills I acquired […]

The interview

Another true incident: Hi guys!  I wanna share my experience. My technical interview started at 11 am. The interviewer was a kind man. First he asked me to introduce myself. I said my name fluently,  first time in my life I guess. Then I got stuck on my college name. The interviewer asked me are […]

To tell or not to tell?

(Ed: We have anonymised the post, just to be on safer side.But we all know who this old TISA friend is. All power to you, K!) Hi folks, I know I have not written for a while in this group and new folks here would not know me. This is K from B. Yesterday I […]

One more prisoner escapes..

” HAYLEY Rawlings has always tried to hide her stammer. But after attending a youth conference in Holland and meeting other sufferers in the summer, she wants to shout out loud about it. ” Read http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/lifestyle-opinion/how-ive-learned-live-stammer-8121141

Alernatives..

Is therapy the only way out? Or the best way out in every situation for pws? Hmmm.. check this post and reach your own conclusions.. http://nashvillepublicradio.org/blog/2014/11/14/people-stutter-public-speaking-group-helps-find-voice/ Here is another hero, who made it – apparently without “therapy”… http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/the-apprentices-pamela-uddin-reveals-she-has-battled-racism-dyslexia-and-a-stammer-30744230.html And here is something similar to what some tisa members are doing in educational institutions.. http://www.videtteonline.com/index.php/2014/11/09/students-start-local-chapter-for-those-who-stutter/

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द इण्डियन स्टैमरिंग एसोसिएशन (टीसा) यदि आप हकलाते हैं, तो आप अकेले नहीं हैं ! द इण्डियन स्टैमरिंग एसोसिएशन (टीसा) भारतीय हकलाने वाले लोगों का एक संगठन है। इसका उद्देश्य, हकलाने के विषय में प्रासंगिक, सही और निष्पक्ष जानकारी को एकत्र कर जन-जन तक फैलाने के साथ ही हकलाने वाले व्यक्तियों, उनके परिवार, दोस्तों और […]

Vipassana – feedback.

Dear Tisa; I just finished my first vipassana course. Briefly here are my thoughts..         Vipassana is the type of meditation. It is the combination of  sheel ( morals ), samadhi ( fully concentrate our own mind) and pragya ( knowledge which got from your own experience ).         […]

IIT Roorkee

Ankit and Mukesh organised a day event at the beautiful campus of IIT Roorkee. About dozen students participated – two from Meerut, one of whom was a young teacher. We saw Julia Irani’s famous interview, discussed it , shared and practiced some techniques –  here and there discussing some serious and deeper issues. what is […]

Ahmedabad aces..

last Sunday we did first Shg meeting in ahmedabad… It was a very nice moment v shared… We are three members .. Vipul from ahmedabad he is mba and doing marketing job..   Rajesh from Jammu .. He just shifted in ahmedabad , posted in canara bank.. And I also just shifted last week from […]

NC Central (2014)

Before we lose track of what happened (yes, life must move on!), we are putting here all the relevant links related to NC 2014 for easy retrieval and reference. All this information has been provided by Virendra Shirse, very kindly. We thank PUNE SHG for pulling it off, so well and all the participants for […]

Oh my God!

While everything went like a dream at NC, there was one event which surprised me. One participant, who had just arrived, wanted to leave on day one! Virendra and I spoke to him, to find out if he was facing any logistics or financial issue, which TISA could help him with. Nothing of the sort. […]

A new take on stammering!

http://www.didistutter.org/ Friends, check this website. A warning however- this is not “easy to grasp” stuff. But after couple of reading, when you do understand, you might say: Wow- never thought of that! While there are plenty of websites, promoting usual approach to stammering (“Stop stuttering in seven minutes!” etc.), Zach and Joshua ask some basic […]

Patna begins a self help group!

TISA is very happy to announce that Suraj, who has attended communication workshop twice, has decided to pass on the gift by starting a self help group at:   SURAJ DOJO, JACKSON DANCE ACADEMY NEAR BARIK GROUND, DANAPUR CANTT PATNA, BIHAR, INDIA EVERY SUNDAY 14:30 TO 17:00 HRS Please get in touch and encourage him […]

Proud to be different..

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { } Apple chief executive Timothy D Cook declared “I’m proud to be gay” on 30th Oct 2014. Effect in that part of the world is probably same if he were to anounce in a press conference in Delhi, called to launch their latest I Phone “I am […]