Siddharth and Mohit are two children facing speech issues: stammering and mis-articualtion. Last Sunday, I got them together in one group with Nisha, a girl their age but no issues. Nishu ofcourse was there to help me and also to learn. Nishu, BTW has passed class 12 from open school and joined college in Dak […]
I got myself invited to a meeting of community health workers of Anugrah on 31st July 2010. Anugrah is a organization working for children with special needs. They have also kindly provided us a hall to conduct our TISA SHG activities on Sundays for free. I was given one hour- and some more, because I […]
On first anniversary of TISA web-site launch, it gives me immense pleasure to announce another initiative TISA has taken and fortunately I am at the forefront of it. There are many IT professionals, designers, Web site developers and people with other talents in TISA, who have not been able to put their skills to use […]
On 07.08.2010 I gave my second speech in Toastmaster club. My topic was corruption , its origin , key players in Indian society, reasons why our society encourages corruption and how we can jointly fight the parasite of corruption making India corruption free. My entire speech of 6.5 minutes went smoothly very well without any […]
A young IPWS from Delhi has told me on phone about good services given by a lady speech therapist in LNJP hopsital; It is heart warming to hear such testimonies. I think we should not forget the government institutions. Many good doctors could be working there. Here is his message (ignore the language, read the […]
Dear friends, It has been decided to hold 2 meetings to overcome stammering in Chennai chapter from the month of July onwards. One meeting at Marina beach near Gandhi statue and another at YWCA guest house. There will be a meeting on 8th July at Marina beach from 5.30 pm to 7.00 pm. we can […]
TISA has tried to share transparent objective information about stammering and its therapy. We have also tried to review and report about the claims “therapists” make. Some of the commercial “therapists/ experts” have been using web in very smart ways- to fool PWS and rob them. Tom Weidig (stutteringbrain) exposes one such Arjun Lal: Good […]
The Pune SHG meeting this sunday was very interesting. We had fun and enjoyed as much as we could. JP had already planned to give us Treat, as it was his Birthday on 22nd July. Although I wished him on that day too but sunday was special. It was raining very heavily from the last […]
Surat SHG welcomes two new members Vishal and Deepak. Both are young, almost at the end of their student life and started trying their luck both in terms of employment as well as marriage. Vishal got in touch via his non-PWS friend who did some web search for stammering for Vishal and furnished him my […]
On 23.07.2010 at 3.45 pm I broke the ice and delivered my first speech at Toastmasterclub Chandigarh. I am grateful to Dr. Sachin and Mr. Manohar from Pune for giving mestrength & courage to disclose before audience that I am a stutterer, which otherwise Iwould not have disclosed. I started with the following words:“ Hi, […]
I had told Harish in our SHG meet that I would like to accompany him to the toastmaster’s meeting. I wanted to learn about public speaking and I had learned from TISA blog that toastmaster’s is a club which aims at excelling in public speaking skills. Here begins the story of my commitments. Commitments, which […]
This Sunday (25th July 2010)- a young child Siddharth came with his mother and aunt. Raju, another recovering PWS spoke to the child – practicing relaxed slow style, encouraging child to talk- at his own rate- while sachin counseled the mother and discussed “indirect” therapy with her. Family has a big role in such cases. […]
TISA is planning to bring out a newsletter (pdf) by 10th August 2010. TISA will welcome any contribution from the readers, SHGs, IPWS, their family / friends. Poetry, Essay, Photograph – anything creative is welcome. Harish Usgaonkar has agreed to be the editor (sachin will be a guest editor for some time).The idea is: not […]
Stammering is a hard to explain and even harder for me because I am the one who stammers. Stammering is one of the biggest medical mysteries that is haunting the medical Science even today. There is no so-called cure for stammer and that is the bitter truth which is hard to accept. Its like living […]
Dear Friends,The Chennai chapter held on 18th July were attended by 9 PWS including 2 new one. Every one talked about their past experiences for about 10 min. IT PWSs are sharing their day to day office problem with each other. 3 PWS told a story each. (Story telling with modulation is the toughest one […]
please see the above speech.As usual, critical comments are welcome. thanks
Keith Boss introduced us all to the Toastmaster’s Club. He vehemently talked about it in his posts and during his visit down here. Manohar of Pune then put in some more light on the Toastmasters by joining it, and uploading some of his videos. All this added to the curiosity, and with the help of […]
It is with some sadness, we reproduce this communication from Jim CAROOPEN, Mauritius; I hope we will learn something from this and brace ourselves for the marathon, so that the spirit of Friends 4 Fluency carries on in Asia: Mauritius: Friends 4 Fluency announces its winding up Dear friends, I am writing to inform you […]
The other day I accompanied Muazzam to a grocery nearby. Big test! He had to enquire prices of a few items with a bounce and eye contact- exactly the way I did. Yes, you must do first what you ask others to do, in your SHG. Even in life. I could sense his excitement and […]
JP has successfully manged the Pune group for about one and a half year. Before that, he worked with IPWS/ CWS in a six month long sabbatical- formally learning counseling, self help, group therapy and group facilitation at Herbertpur (Dehradun). Running a Self help group is often considered easy- but is quite a ‘technical’ task […]