My friend Hetal from Surat, has sent this very interesting link about active listening… We need to really work on this- may be even more than on our speech..http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/ActiveListening.htm
Chennai Report
Dear Friends, The Chennai chapter has completed a course for adults stammerers after 9th weekly meeting on 29.03.2009. I wanted to share my experience in this course with this group. The following observations are made from this adult group experience only and not from any thing else.. Group strength. Generally 10 pws attended weekly meetings […]
BSA
British Stammering Association (BSA) National Conferencehttp://www.stammering.org/conf.html
Pune Self Help Group Meeting
Pune Self help group met on 29 march 2009. We started with slow reading with pauses after every four or five words to get our breathing normal and feel relaxed. Then we continued with introductions with the same rule as last time i.e. after introducing oneself, one is also required to introduce the person who […]
Book for children
Those children who can read English comfortably and can spend some money- for them there is a book- Nice one, about how to deal with stammering, if you are a child:http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/article969896.eceIf the parents do decide to buy, here is the amazon link; and yes, dont order just one- order two and give one to nearest […]
Delhi Group Meeting
Hi, This Saturday, the group meeting took place at 2:00 PM at our usual place – the Central Park, Connaught Place, New Delhi. We had 10 attendees this time – Myself, Sikandar, Tarun, Kshitiz, Shivam, Sudhanshu, Deepak, Kishore, Pulkit and Vishal. We did the usual bit of introducing each other and sharing our experiences. Vishal […]
How to get Rich
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Nurture the plant- It will outgrow the weeds!
Here is a nice offering from Kiran. What do you do with negative thoughts? Not just those related to speech- but in general? She offers some valid insights.http://kirancabral005.blogspot.com/2009/03/avoid-negative-thoughts.html
delhi meeting
tomorrow there will be a meeting. Come at 2 in central park, delhi.dr kshitiz989142838027.3’09
Please note- Chennai Friends
Dear friends,The last weekly meeting at Chennai will be held on 29th March from 4 PM to 7 PMat YWCA.Try to come at 4 PM as I will be leaving 6 PM (after tea break) on thatday due to personal work. However the meeting will go upto 7 PM asMr.Sivasubramanian will be available. The monthly […]
Pune is upto it again..
Pune self help group is planning to meet at Sambhaji Park on 29 March 2009, 4 p.m. Kindly take this opportunity to meet these wonderful & caring people. Don’t think about winning, we can beat you at stammering on any given day. Kindly get in touch with the following: Jai Prakash Sunda- 9271205627. Pravin: 9970780936 […]
Self Hypnotism and slowing your life down..
Dear friends,There were 9 PWS who attended the 22nd March meeting. In this meeting Mr.Ramesh who came on our request, has demonstrated about self-Hypnotism which was liked by every one. This self-hypnotism is basically meant to feed positive thoughts into our sub-conscious mind. Really a good one. A practical guide to control the stammering which […]
Pune gets cracking! Wow!
Pune SHG met for the first time on March 22, 2009 at Sambhaji Park. Pravin, Prasad, Sanjeet, Rupesh and Jai attended the meeting. We started with slow reading with pauses after every sentence (so that we get our breathing normal and in rythm ) and then with introductions. While introducing oneself, everyone was also required […]
Delhi TISA meet
Hi, After a gap of three weeks, Delhi TISA SHG meetings will be resuming fromtomorrow. We have 7 confirmations till now. Give me a call @ 98183 50799,if interested to join us. DetailsVenue – Central Park, Connaught Place, New DelhiTime – 2:00 PM Regards Nitin
Chennai Meets
Dear friends,The next Chennai chapter meet will be held on 22nd March ie Sunday from 4 PMto 7 PM at YWCA conference hall. Kindly note that there will be one more weeklymeeting in this month. From April onwards, only monthly meetings. Pl make use ofthis opportunity. Regards,V. ManimaranMobile: 098842 89989
Questions and answers
Keith Boss recently replied to a young IPWS. We have left out the questions, because we know them too well. In any case, you can guess them from the answers. We are sharing here these answers because many of us may still have these questions..——————————————————— Good to hear from you.Questions / Answers. CURE OF STAMMERINGThere […]
Attitudes
Jai, from Pune has sent this very interesting link.. it is all about you, me ..anybody.. and not just stammering.. much more than that..http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/harrison9.html
Pune Perks up!
Pune Self help group is planning to meet this Sunday (22nd March). Please get in touch with following for more info; Dont miss this opportunity. Dr Burns says, that clients who participate in self help activities, improve faster than those who depend on clinicians and other outside sources (from Feeling Good Handbook). Jai Prakash Sunda […]
Ajab speech ki gajab kahani!! Straight from Bollywood..
Keith has just sent this link. On the face of it – it seems to be a good development. But a little voice says- WAIT! Sometime people do right things for wrong reasons..Anyway, I want the ‘great’ actors, not only to stammer but do other things, considered ’embarrassing’ by society- so that we all can […]
Practice, Practice, Practice…
Dear friends,The 15th March Chennai chapter meeting were attended by 15 PWS with an additionof 2 new members.As usual, everyone sang a song at the beginning.Then each one was asked to tellhis name, Father,Mother,Grand fathers and grand Mother’s name,his qualificationand his place of residence in that order with 3 secs pause between eachone.Barring a couple […]