Friends, we encourage you to start contributing to our TISA website ( http://stammerindia.org/ ) by sending your announcements, stories, poems, case studies, write ups and pictures etc. to info@stammerindia.org or harishusgaonker@gmail.com . Dont we deserve a full fledged website now after 9 years? This blog is being powered down. However, it will be around as […]
Role plays can be lot of fun and they are a very HOLISTIC approach to learning communication, whether you stammer or not.. Role plays come nearest to natural demands of communication- unlike “slow reading” or “presentations”. They dont require always script- just a situation. In the above role play, Dehradun SHG was given a situation: […]
For many new comers, it is difficult to believe that a group of pws – with no therapist – can help a pws. How? It is good to ask these questions and try and get to the bottom. The secret is: SHG creates an atmosphere where certain attitudinal changes can happen. “Can happen” – yes […]
Kisan Bhawan, Chandigarh Accounts Shared Brief Report: Main activities conducted were Stammering Interviews (first among participants, then with strangers) and Mutual videography while phoning. Most participants reported that Interviews with strangers (Rose garden and Sukhna lake) was more challenging and rewarding. But yes, discussions, feedback round and other indoor activities in an AC conference room, […]
Received from our Pune Self Help group volunteer: A workshop was conducted this afternoon at Pune Girls Blind school with an objective to increase the IT skills to help visually challenged students. Highlights of the workshop : * 80 odd students mainly from 9th and 10th class attended the workshop. * One hour time was […]
Acceptance – the stumbling block for the worthy of the worthies! I too am still learning it.. :)) Not given up yet! Why is it so difficult? If we listen to this answer given by Eckhart, about acceptance, it might help. He is talking about acceptance in a much bigger dimension: and it has a […]
If stammering could be compared with a bog (“daldal”), it can be safely said that there are many paths leading to this bog- and there are MANY paths leading out of it! Amit, the writer below, attended a communication workshop in 2013. He got hold of one idea: I must get rid of shame and fear. And this […]
Friends, while the jury is still out (on whether there is a cure or not!!), let us check this story: “And reluctantly with trepidation, he started going on-stage, knowing well that he may not be able to deliver a single line without a stutter. “After some initial hesitation, instead of struggling to speak, I found […]
I have often wondered why my hospital bills came down dramatically, after I joined TISA..!! Today, watching this Ted Talk, I found it out. The great secret! https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend#t-516959
(From left to right: Sudanshu, Rajkumar, Ravi sharma, Pratheek, Subrath, Ravi teja, Amarnath and Hari Krishna.)….. It was another fine Sunday morning. Rajkumar(Myself), Subrath, Amarnath, Hari Krishna and Sudanshu were gathered in small hut. We were waiting for our co-ordinator(Ravi teja). Hari Krishna started the meeting with introductory round. Subrath introduced himself as a software […]
Just received a whatsapp question: Dear sir, मैं मानता हूँ stuttering कोई handicap नहीं है और यह प्रोपर देखभाल से ठीक हो सकता है । पर समाज के लोग इसे जब handicap ही मानते हैं और अधिकांश स्थितियों में PWS को मज़ाक व्यंग्य कटाक्ष एवं हीन भावना का शिकार बनने में कोई कसर उठा नही […]
Go-go-goa…(Video 1, Video 2) This is just an early update. Someone from Dehradun SHG will write at more length soon. So, 29th (Sunday), we met a group of students from University of Boston, facilitated by Operation Groundswell – at Sita Ram Ashram. In a nutshell, we interacted freely; encouraged everyone to ask questions (many of […]
Just returned from a three day residential Osho Dhyan shivir. Great experience! Came away with a great metaphor, related by Osho. Let me share: A man went to visit a friend at his house. His two children were sitting and playing in the balcony, overlooking a busy road, below. The father (the friend) was not […]
Friends check this: http://www.didistutter.org/blog/every-word-i-speak-is-resistance Amazing insights!
“I was born with a speech defect. Stammering haunts me; it is like a shadow that never deserts me except during sleep. Many inadquacies can be compensated for, but how does one keep a speech defect a secret? I was perhaps the only student with a stammer in my school. A stammerer is always on […]
“When I was two and started talking, my parents had realized that I have a speech-related problem to an extent of stammering. However, I was told that it’s temporary and might go away as I will grow up. My life moved on and the complications and comparisons increased and eventually with that pressure, my speech […]
If you are in Dehradun and if you stammer (lol!), you are welcome to join Dehradun SHG, for a day long interaction with American University students (30) from Boston – at Sita Ram Ashram on 29th May (Sunday). It will be a rich experiential session – no lectures, no presentations! – just genuine discussions, leading […]
If you are in Dehradun, I invite you to an interaction with some MacMaster Students (from Canada) at Samagra on 6th and 7th May (10 am to 12 noon). It will be more like a free social interaction.. But of course you are welcome to discuss themes around, education, communication, cross-cultural insights (may be “dating” too?) etc. […]
An interesting development, along the lines of genetic origins of stammering- just in case someone is interested: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/researchers-genetically-engineer-mice-to-stutter-laying-basis-for-model-of-the-human-speech-disorder
I received a very relevant question from a young pws. After removing the names etc. I am sharing the answer here, because it may be of some use to many others: Question Dear sir, I want to ask you something. The story goes like this. I always wanted someone to stay with me. So as […]