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12 APR

Ego: Emotions Gone Overboard…

Ego is bad for people. Sounds clichéd?? Well, It’s more so for pws. The singular factor that can ease the life of a pws is – Confidence. It is when the mind and heart are in unison, without fear, that words flow unhindered. For a pws like me, (teacher with stammering) with nowhere to hide, […]

22 DEC

From TISA TO TOASTMASTER | Journey from zero to hero

I am not a promoter and not a business person but I am a person who stammer and a person who is Toastmaster. “It’s always a magic when you really have full faith on yourself towards what you want to be ~ Vishal Gupta ” I personally feel that faith is a weapon which can […]

22 NOV

Yaadein..

I remember a story shared by a therapist working with children who stammer. She was shocked one day, when during a session, the child said: My father slaps me whenever I block! The therapist decided to confront the father. But the father refused to have ever done that. The family too confirmed that father had […]

What is Self Help?

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Since there is no medical cure and available therapy almost always ends in relapse and self-blame, it makes sense to develop problem solving skills on our own: you would surely learn to fix running repairs if you are going on a world tour, instead of carrying your mechanic with you. It is all the more useful since it is practiced in a group. You develop social and communication skills, instead of chasing fluency alone. TISA promotes four core techniques: Bouncing, Prolongation, Pausing and Voluntary stammering. In addition, we share and practice many more skills/ approaches: listening, Body language, team skills, leadership, self-assertion, peer counseling- above all being a member of a vibrant community, through fair give and take.