TISA Women Who Stammer Meet-Up – 26-Oct-2024 – Report

Date: 26th October 2024; Time: 09:30 PM (IST) Host: Vidya Lalgudi Jaishankar         Number of Attendees: 7 1. Introductions of all participants 2. Breathing and Relaxation Meditation led by Deepika Goyal. 3. Special mention to Manasi for her efforts in spreading awareness and initiating discussions on stammering in neighbouring schools. 4. Discussions on New Initiatives […]

SpeechCraft 2- 11th August

TISA Bangalore Shg meeting: 11/08/24. Note: The following is the report from the self-help meeting in Bangalore on 11th August. The report is from Praneeth Gadari, one of the participants. These self-help meetings happened across India- Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, etc. More information can be found on the TISA website. The joining details are at the end. Participants: (From […]

Symphony in Stammer: Koi Farak Nahi Albatta

It was a regular Wednesday workday at my IT job, but a milestone evening for me. I had already canceled my students’ evening music classes and asked everyone to meet at the Troy High School auditorium. It was the annual high school symphony orchestra concert night at a Troy School District high school in Michigan, […]

TISA Bootcamp held at Chakrata

The first of it’s kind Bootcamp was organized by TISA at Chakrata, near Vikasnagar. This was facilitated by Dr. Satyendra (Sachin) Srivastava. This week-long boot camp was focused on an inward journey- instead of stammering or communication. We had four meditation sessions daily plus two mindful walks in the mountains, to watch the sunrise and sunset. […]

Chennai SHG Kick-Off Meet

Hello, I’m Vidya Jaishankar, and this is my first TISA SHG meeting. It’s a pleasure to recount this memorable event, which marks the revival of the Chennai SHG. The evening was warm in Chennai, with a rare forecast of slight rains, and the streets were bustling with people frequenting cafes and juice bars. ‘Chai Galli’, […]

The Girl In Green Gown (Part-2)

This blog is a continuation of my previous blog, Kindly go through it before continuing – https://stammer.in/the-girl-in-green-dress/ I could’nt stop thinking about that girl, her face was always in my mind. Even when I closed my eyes, I could see her laughing, nodding in agreement, and carefully ear locking her hair looking at me as […]

Spark Plug

TISA Bangalore Shg meeting: 13/08/23. Note: The following is the report from the self-help meeting in Bangalore on  13th August. The report is from Tapan, one of the participants. These self-help meetings happened across India- Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, etc. More information can be found on the TISA website. The joining details are at the end.   […]

Serendipity

TISA Bangalore Shg meeting: 30/07/23. Note: The following is the report from the self-help meeting in Bangalore on 30th July. The report is from Promod, one of the participants. These self-help meetings happened across India- Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, etc. More information can be found on the TISA website. Attendees: Sudhanshu, Vivek, Dr. Arjun, Keerthan, Labani, Akshay, […]

TISA Patna SHG Meeting

Hello friends! Today it was Sunday started the day with full of cold, as we were planned last night to hold a SHG meet. When we reached Gandhi maidan (venue of SHG) there was entry prohibited for common man we lose hope. As we reached after having long suffer like somebodies was coming from Gaya […]

Jaipur SHG Meeting on 16.10.2022

Hello everyone On 16th October 2022 an SHG meeting was conducted in Jaipur.Prior intimation was shared in the group about the date and  time. The meeting was scheduled at 11:00 a.m. and me and my nephew Vansh reached Central Park at 11:00 a.m. Before us Aditya have already reached the place. We gathered at a […]

Bengaluru SHG -Oct 9th ,2022

Hello everyone, I am Ravi. It was a pleasant Sunday morning, and I came to Bangalore from Mysore for a short trip. I saw in the Bangalore shg group that there will be a self-help group meeting on Sunday. My stay was very near to the venue at which the meeting was to be conducted […]

Closed-Ended Practice : The sane way of doing things..

The Role of Speech Tools or Techniques in Managing Stuttering: Importance of Closed-Ended Practice  In TOPG we talk a lot about the importance of practicing speech tools or techniques to achieve more forward-moving speech. There are many questions to explore on this topic. First, what is the purpose of the speech tools or techniques? Second, how […]

The Girl In Green Gown

It was Tuesday evening, after many days of an extreme heatwave, Nagpur finally witnessed its first rainfall of 2022. The rain continued for almost 4 hours, there was a cold breeze. It was a perfect evening to hang out with friends, we decided to meet at a restro bar after our office. We sat at […]

Curse of Bhadra

CURSE OF BHADRA. Many say Ravana was a strong, devoted bhakt, sanskrit scholar, high class brahmin, wonderful person and respected women because he did not touched goddess Sita. But what must have been the reason he did not even touched her. Well, he did wanted to do more than touching but was stopped by a […]

PA..PA.. PALGHAR.

Pa..Pa.. Palghar. The day was friday. As a lawyer by profession I was excited since morning because of the weekend. I had already started to day dream two days of relaxing, sleeping, eating and doing nothing. The excitement was shortlived as I had to cross a valley of fire. No, not exactly fire but for […]

Ahmedabad SHG Meeting

  After a long time we had a in person meeting at our old venue Vastrapur Lake with new vibes. So much is changed in last few years people get engaged, got new job roles, simply life become hectic for everyone. But still in this rush we miss something, we miss a family/stamily in this […]

IT HAPPENED TO ME

(A SLOW LEARNER) It was an incident 3-4 years ago. When I was in 10th STD.  It was just a normal school day from my school life. It was my history class going on in that 2nd lecture of that day. Our history teacher was very talkative & funny. So, they were asking some questions […]

My life, My Ambition

My Name is Tapok Kena, iam 21 years old, from Arunachal Pradesh. Here I want to share about my life in a brief. At the age of 15 years I gave attention on my stammering as it was created hinder to communication, I used to substituted my word widely and life goes out as it […]