Hi, We will be meeting tomorrow i.e. 06-June-2009. Details are: Venue: Central Park, Connaught Place, New DelhiTime: 3:00 PM onwards Anybody who wants to joins us, give me a call at 98183 50799. Cheers Nitin

Here is an online IBN program on stammering..I have not been able to see it. Can some one review it and write a post? have they been able to go beyond the stereotypes and look deeper?http://features.ibnlive.in.com/zindagilive_view.php?content_id=89568&id=0

A three day Intensive Speech therapy program for stammering is being organised by The Indian Stammering Association (TISA) and Samagra in collaboration from 13th to 15th June 2009. Based on positive experiences in west, it is being organised by recovering stammerers with technical help from a speech therapist. It focuses on three core aspects of […]

Dear friends,The Chennai chapter meet on 31.05.2009 was attended by 9 PWS. The regular 4 PWS are on summer vacation and could not attend the meeting. A new PWS by the name of Alwyn Richards attended the meet. As usual, we started with 5 min speech by everyone and asked Alwyn Richards to speak in […]

In last few months I’ve talked to a lot of stutterers, and I’ve found that most of them are letting their lives controlled by their stuttering. It has become the proverbial tail that wags the dog. In my opinion, the first step towards controlling stuttering will be to give it only it’s due importance. Life […]

It is so nice to know that our friends in Nepal have a national organization devoted to people who stammer. It is heartening to know that they have been well organized and active since 2001.. They have a beautiful website. Please check out. http://www.nsa.org.npSanjay Kumar Jha is the president. We hope that someday, we will […]

This week’s meet is at Peshve park, 3:00 p.m. , Sunday (31 May). For the next week’s meet, hopefully we will have some indoor space. Agenda for this week: 1. Slow reading. 2. Speak on a topic (“What you did this week” or “About your Job” or “Any experience you want to share” or Any […]

Dear friends,The next Chennai Chapter monthly meeting will be held on 31.05.2009 ( not 24.05.2009) from 4 PM to 7 PM at YWCA mini conference hall. A lot of information will be taught in this class which will give new insight about stammering. If we are able to know about stammering well, we can easily […]

Work and relationships are an important part of our lives. In fact, we constitute more than ninety percent of our self-concept based on these two areas: what we do, for whom we do, people we care about etc. Both these dimensions are consistently affected by our stammer. Many of us want to go in a […]

Here is a article discussing the role of other (than speech) variables in stammering:http://www.israelnewsagency.com/barbaradahmdynamicstutteringtherapyspeechonlinefluencydisordersspeakingimpairedcommunications44050809.html

At the beginning of this year, I made a resolution to be able to control my stuttering. I got on to it on war footing – doing reading practice for 30 minutes in the morning, talking to fellow PWS for two hours in the evening through Skype, and organizing and attending TISA meetings on week-ends. […]

My dear Indian friends, It’s been many weeks or months since Sachin asked me to write an article for the TISA blog about how TISA was formed. It is about 1.15 on Thursday morning, and I am waiting for an American webinar to start. The webinar starts at two o’clock my time, but nine o’clock […]

Dear friends,As you know, the Chennai chapter of TISA is conducting monthly meetings toovercome stammering in the fourth Sunday of every month. Many have attendedthe meeting and got benefited. The next meeting will be held on 24.05.2009.I noticed that no other such meetings are taking place in South India. Hence Isuggest those who are living […]

Dear Friends,The Chennai chapter meet on 26.04.2009 were attended by 8 PWS. May be due tosummer holidays, many PWS might have gone to their native places. But one silverlining of the meet was a 18 year Pawan Kumar who came from Bangaluru (320 kmsfrom Chennai) along with his Cousin to attend the meet. Thanks to […]