Bouncing Correctly

As a part of my facilitation training assignment,I am bouncing with two or more strangers on a regular basis.I have been doing this since thursday on non feared words only and with strangers.Now till now,i have been doing two kinds of bouncing.One is with strangers in which I bounce 3 times as part of my […]

Bouncing with Strangers

It was about 6.30 pm in the evening, Ashish , a PWS was on his way from office to his room. After getting out of factory gate, feeling a bit relaxed & cheerful (confirmed salary for 1 more day of boring work 🙂 greeting gate keepers, other known persons, he was on his way to […]

Der lagi lekin…..

A song dedicated to all my herburtpur workshop friends, from movie ZNMD. Der lagi lekin Maine ab hai jeena seekh liya Jaise bhi ho din Maine ab hai jeena seekh liya Ab maine Yeh jaana hai, khushi hai kya, gumm kya Dono hi, do pal ki hai ruttein Na yeh thehre na rukey Zindagi do […]

Stutter-Mind-Body – Part 2

This post is the 2nd & I guess the last post J towards my review of blog “Stutter-mind-body”. In further posts, the author has further discussed various drugs, proposed to be fluency improver. However, most of them are under trial stage only. He also pointed out various side effects belonging to these drugs, such as […]

ADVERTISING MY STAMMER

Yesterday,i done the things that feared me to accept my stammer..firstly,i share the info. related stammering with college friends after lots of hesitation.believe me,it takes off a lots of pressure from me..previously,i always tried not speak about anything related to stammer..secondly,i have started to post stuff related to stammer from yesterday onwards..now,i’m feeling much relaxed […]

Stutter-Mind-Body – Part 1

This post is the 1st installment towards my review of blog “Stutter-mind-body”. The anonymous author started this blog in July’10.In this post, I have tried a suitable review on all the articles posted from July’10 to Dec’10. The author has tried to explain how body & then mind affects stuttering & its intensity. At many […]

हंसना मना है…!

आजकल टीवी पर कामेडी सीरियल्स की भरमार है. हर चैनल पर दर्शकों को हंसाने की होड़ लगी हुई है. इस कोशिश में प्रोग्राम के निर्देशक और कलाकार ऐसी कॉमेडी पेश कर रहे हैं जिसमे हास्य कम समाज के लोगों की बेबसी और लाचारी का मजाक उड़ाया जाता है. विकलांगों और हकलाने वाले व्यक्तिओं का माखौल […]

Role plays & Communication

Practicing speech techniques for PWS can be a very boring task at times! Role plays offer a very interesting alternative. In role plays we learn holistic communication: reading & memorizing dialogues, recalling, improvising, emoting, use of body language, throwing our voice back to the audience, being alert and alive to the moment, working with a […]

HBT CommWS 3rd day

First exercise- everyone made a long list of “Difficult words”- then, we practiced different ways of dealing with them. Next, everyone was given a news paper item: they had to paraphrase and summarize the news, with own comments, in five minutes. Third challenge was watching oneself stammering on video… Participants, in pairs, videographed each other, […]

Herbertpur- day 2

Anupinder from Patiala joined us today. We had a recap of four basic tools and the three block correction techniques. While Pawan carried the group through a hierarchy of increasingly difficult motor tasks, some participants had quick 101 session with sachin in a side room.The group had ex-tempore sessions on random topics picked from a […]

Dont just put up with it- go out and EDUCATE!

Mini Communication workshop at HerbertpurDr O P Yadav from Varanasi, Saurabh and Rajesh from Dehradun, Rakesh from Faizabad, Umesh and Abhishek from Faridabad assembled this morning in Anugrah meeting hall. Pawan was the Assistant facilitator, helping sachin. Since most of participants had some exposure to basic techniques, we went through a rapid recap and practice […]

Osho on stammering

Today i suddenly googled to check if OSHO (Rajneesh), one of the enlightened souls of modern time had also sparkle his divine thoughts about stammering.Below mention is the abstract of the resultant:- “I was reading the biography of a man who had the habit of stammering.Being the son of a rich man, he consulted a […]

Chennai meet

Dear All The next Chennai Chapter meeting will be held in Anna Nagar Tower Park between 10.00AM and 12.00PM on 31st July (Coming Sunday). Please attend and share your experiences. Please contact me at 98414 12850 if you need more information about this meeting.. Thanks and Regards Francin Prabhu

hi……… Dis is Chakit Samanta, an engineer 4m kolkata, presently doing my post graduation 4m nagpur. i am a stammering person and i have controlled dis 2 a greater extent. thanks 2 Dr. Sachin and Rajendra sir, who have helped me a lot 2 learn certain techniques- pro…..longation and b..b..bouncing and certain block correction techniques. […]

Chennai meets..

Dear All, The Chennai chapter meeting was held today in Anna Tower Park with 7 PWS participating. Mr. Amirtraj attended for the first time. We had a nice discussion on a nice lawn. Many things were discussed including the importance of acceptance and attending meetings regularly. It was adjourned after deciding to meet again next […]

The Big Decision

As a child,I didn’t know about the various stuttering treatments available to the pws and just though it was all about speaking slowly .That’s it.As I grew up and with the introduction of internet in my life,I became more aware about the vast research being done in this area.It wasn’t just slow talk,it was much […]