Any Hindi lovers ?

If you have a little time, please read this google doc and leave your comment (like “unclear”, “Spelling”, “check the sentence” etc.). This will help TISA to finalise the translation of Seven Stories for children who can not read it in English. Many readers in the past have commented – why everything in English on […]

हकलाहट – भ्रम और सच्चाई (Myths about Stuttering)

भ्रम: हकलाने वाले व्यक्ति बुद्धिमान नहीं होते? सच: हकलाहट और बुद्धिमानी के बीच कोई संबंध नहीं है। भ्रम: घबराहट के कारण हकलाहट होती है। सच: घबराहट के कारण हकलाहट नहीं होती है। यह नहीं माना जा सकता कि हकलाने वाले व्यक्ति घबराए हुए, डरे हुए, चिंतित या शर्मीले होते हैं। इनमें भी दूसरे लोगों की […]

Stammerers as sales Executive?

Sounds like a wild proposition. But we, the pws, often challenge the limits. Sometime we succeed, sometime we are richer by the experience. But the bottom line is- we will never know, what we are capable of, who we truly are – unless we do not go out and try. THIS knowledge, no therapist, no […]

Jaipur SHG Meeting report

Hello friends Today we had a fruitful SHG meeting in Jaipur. We were 6 members – Soumya, Chandraprakash, Omjee, Sunil, Abhinav and me (Ravi). Soumya, Chandraprakash and Omjee reached Central Park at exact 2 PM although it was quite hot today. I reached 20 minutes late, Sunil reached 30 minutes late and Abhinav 2 hours late. […]

Delhi SHG Report of 4th Indoor meeting

Delhi SHG Report ……soch rha hu blank chor do…..but chalo choti si report suna hi deta hu……. 🙂                              Meeting again took place in the same venue Natya Ballet Center, CP. First time Dixit Arora was the host with 15 members. Aakash, […]

Bangalore SHG Meeting Report: 15 June 2015

I was nice cool Sunday morning, I reached 10 mins late and found that our place(Regular hut) was occupied.  so we had to conduct meeting in another nearby hut. I was good change this new hut was bigger and good change for all of us. First we all did loud paragraph reading, everyone read one […]

National Coordinator

Taking the SHG feedback SERIOUSLY (!), I announce JP as the Asst National Coordinator, who will replace me in 6 months to a year. We all know him, as one of the founders of TISA, of Pune SHG and as someone who has facilitated Communication workshops, NCs etc. etc.. list is long.. I am sure, […]

2015 : Lessons from SHGs

We did an internal qualitative study of three SHGs – Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore. The objective was to consolidate learning from SHGs and share it back to SHGs, especially new ones. Here are the main lessons: 1. Continuity : Number of participants will NOT keep on growing up since stammering is a variable phenomena and pws […]

Pune SHG Report June 14, 2015

We had 5 members today: Gaurav, Amol, Sanjeet, Rupesh, and Pankaj. This is Pankaj’s second meeting. The meeting started with a round of introduction in which everyone has to give a short introduction including hobbies too.  Pankaj is an engineering student. He loves trekking and horse riding. Next round we had a story telling activity. […]

Crazy Boys club does it again…

Some of TISA gangsters did it right on a busy intersection; Dh-aniram and Ma-niram- the two Delhi police constables are still looking for them; If you see any of them, report to TISA control room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yocnc_A3t8 Here is how music (Rap) can get a pws back to his feet… Check it out! http://www.mtv.com/news/2182430/ed-sheeran-eminem-stutter/ http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/ed-sheerans-emotional-stutter-speech-i-couldnt-express-myself-in-the-right-way-but-being-weird-is-wonderful-293821  And […]

7th June Bangalore

Hello All,            Last Sunday was great in all cases. We started by reading in the reverse that is last word first and last letter first. Mansi told us about her PHD thesis viva. She also described about her experience at a Stammering seminar in Mumbai where Kids along with parents […]

Special guest Harish

Hello Guys, First I would like to thanks Harish. He joined the Skype call. In today’s Skype meeting I invited Harish who is from Goa. He is very active member of Tisa and Goa coordinator. He tell us his full story and how he over come from all that situations. It was really inspiring. And […]

Environment & events can change you!

(Received from Dnyanesh Kenkre, Goa) I had gone to attend the YOUTH Seminar organized by Shri Ram Chandra Mission Meditation with around 500 people. It was of 8 days..On the first day they showed one video clip and they told to speak on the topic which was showed on the video. And it was a […]

Friends : Opportunities Galore..!

The legend goes that a mother wanted to help her child who stutters. In her quest, she reached out to many more children who stammer, their parents and also SLPs. And thus, the idea of FRIENDS convention was born. In 2015, a young man dreamt of replicating the idea of “Friends” in India. The Mumbai […]