This week we decided to meet on Saturday evening. This time, the meeting was attended by, after a long long gap, Stanley! Rahul and Stanley were meeting for the first time. So we had a brief introduction to start with. Then we found a place to sit, and got started with our discussions. Two things […]
Sharmaofying or Haklaofying…former or the latter..is for us to decide…i always dreaded the words like haklu, haklaofying and all…stuttering and stammering were still fine but not the hindi synonyms which sound very rude. just a few months back i used to keep my words with me, not sharing anything 😛 though my heart saying..c’mon u […]
Bangalore SHG met on 11-Apr-2010 after a gap of two weeks. The meeting had to be cancelled in the last two weeks due to non availability of the members. This week, I got the confirmation from Pramod, Aashish and Tanoy and I reached Cubbon Park by 10 AM. I was joined by Pramod by 10.15 […]
This meet will be facilitated by Ms Sweta and Dr Durba (for their contact details click ‘Kolkata’ under “Contact Self Help Groups at” in the right hand column on this blog); here are the details:Venue: Medica ENT Institute, P12 Nirala Cooperative, Mukundapur,Kolkata-99Time: 24th April,2010, 5pm to 7pmIf you are in Kolkata, please help this initiative […]
TISA has often been asked: should we talk about our stammering during a job interview? No easy universal answers unfortunately. But we can certainly find out how others have coped with it. A Speech therapist who stammers, is under much more pressure (than we, the regular stutterers!) during a job interview: Since they are going […]
I work for an IT MNC, and staying in Pune for the past four years. Running a marathon is not something that we folks do quite often. That is why I jumped at the thought when such an advert was published in our company’s notice board. When the registrations were being accepted at my office, […]
The Pune SHG met on 11 April 14, 2010 at the same meeting place in the morning. It was nice to see the increase in the strength of the people this weekend. We had around 10 people in this meeting. As we were about to start the meeting we came to know that Nikhil’s uncle […]
Next Chennai SHG meetVenue: MINI CONFERENCE HALL,Y.W.C.A.INTERNATIONAL GUEST HOUSE, #1086, E.V.R.PERIYAR SALAI (POONAMALLI HIGH ROAD), NEAR DINATHANTHI OFFICE, CHENNAI-600084.Time: 18.04.2010, 4 PM to 8 PMI kindly request everyone to tell a story on that day The method of story telling should be very very slow which can be easily understood to a child also. Even […]
Shame and embarrassment needs to be conquered to have total acceptance of ourselves with our stammering. How total acceptance of stammering will come if we are not open towards our stammering? The acceptance needs to be achieved at physical and emotional levels. Behaviours like looking down, substituting words or avoidance needs to be stopped if […]
Here is the workshop report, briefly describing the methodology, content and participants at the six day workshop at Kolkata.http://www.scribd.com/doc/29746286 Here are some video highlights as well:
When I was a child, teachers to me, were like Gods on earth. I was small- they were BIG. But of course sometime they were quite disappointing! I think there are two reasons. A teacher does not get the same respect and privileges as a doctor or bureaucrat today, even though the work s/he is […]
Rahul and I met again today. For a long time now, our SHG meetings are held just between two of us. Taking a few lessons from the workshops, and other SHGs, today I had come for the meeting with a few things planned. Rahul turned up a few minutes later. He had a spark in […]
Years ago, during my college days, I was in a phase where my stammering ‘iceberg’ was growing deep down… Acceptance was unknown then. And writing did give me a vent. But writing about stammering upfront? That was something I couldn’t have ever imagined that time. So, I decided to pen down a poem, which symbolizes […]
Here is an announcement in Telegraph:http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100331/jsp/calcutta/story_12284719.jsp
If you are fond of electronic gadgets and their much hyped role in stammering, read this post from a “SpeechEasy (DAF)” user..http://istutterer.blogspot.com/2010/04/speecheasy.html
Hi Everyone,PWS has really grown from what I can see and read. TISA also has made an entrance. I joined PWS on yahoo group as an eighteen year old. I am M- B-, 25 years old from M—. I am working as a content writer in a content writing firm in M-. A lot has […]
It might be little late to post this, but I have heard ‘better late than never’ and JPs Motivation so let me do this. Well….We all met on 4 April 2010 at our regular meet up place, but timing has changed from the past week, i.e. 10 am in the morning. We all came fresh […]
We started at around 6:20 AM, and started jogging. Jogging by definition should have such a speed where you can easily converse with a fellow runner. After a couple of rounds, Sanjeet and Sachin stopped. I for being younger was made to run a couple of rounds more. I obliged happily. After few minutes, Vivek […]
After discussing Shehaan’s stuttering iceberg with Keith and thinking about whether its really a stuttering or a communication iceberg, I also feel like extending this to avoidance. Yes we should work on avoiding all avoidance but then are all avoidance stammering related? Don’t we avoid to speak many a times despite the fact that we […]
We started at 6:30 AM, and left for jogging. We warmed up slowly and did some stretches. Then Sachin did some real tough karate blocks. We played some interesting exercise of pushing each other using our backs and hands. I wrestled and jostled with Sachin. Check out the pics to get more idea. The objective […]