Below are various resources developed or curated by TISA over the years; Feel free to copy and share freely. You may (we will be very happy) translate them in regional languages and different formats too- like, you could read out “Apna Hath Jagannath”, the self-help manual, and share it as a series of podcast. Feel free to share the link with us.

Apna Hath Jagannath, a self help manual, which many pws have found useful. It discusses the true nature of the problem, what can be done, various tools and approaches to recovery, how acceptance helps and life beyond recovery. (pdf: Hindi, English)

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Published in 2007 with valuable help from Samagra Trust, Dehradun, this booklet offered answers for common questions about stammering. It was used an entry point activity: a hard copy was donated to school library as an introduction to TISA, before working with children in the school. A good primer. (Hindi, English)

A mini book in Hindi to explore various shades and nuances of acceptance- and how it sets you free psychologically, to move ahead and grow. In TISA workshops, we explore various dimensions of acceptance: at psychological level, it might mean being no more “touchy” about stammering; at cognitive level it may mean going beyond obsessive need to monitor one’s own fluency and listener’s reactions all the time. At emotional level- it may mean- giving up all sadness and “victimhood” and participating in the joy of life; stop postponing things. At physiological plain, it may mean- that we no more tense up, hold our breath and struggle in that moment of difficulty: we stammer effortlessly. Acceptance simply means: accepting what IS. Being at PEACE with this moment and move ahead calmly. The writer, Amit Kushwaha, is a prolific Hindi writer. (Hindi) (English)

A brief essay which explores what is stammering and what can be done about it – written for general audience. Three pages as JPG images, can be printed and shared. (link)

The Child: A mythological fantasy (Part 1, Part 2)

Can children differentiate between fact and fantasy? Are the capable of lying, as we adults are? A little lie

A recollection of a pet dog, named after a BBC presenter – Tim Sebastian

Three micro-stories on lock down in Hindi – तीन लघु कथाएँ 

We tinkered with this medium too! Here are some early efforts by some of us..

https://youtu.be/cjwuC–drg4  (Jasbir Sandhu gives a talk on Radio)

https://soundcloud.com/onetakerecording/podcast-hr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksGGfGbunkw  (FM radio)

http://stutteringiscool.com/sound/cool124.mp3

http://stammerfreely.com/?p=123

Many of us have been contributing to Online Conference to commemorate International Stammering Awareness Day (22nd Oct.). It was initially started and organised by Judith Kuster, and later by ISA. Here are some links. Of course other papers are also worth reading. Viren Gandhi has been creating a single file of all the conference papers ever since 2002 (like this).

Prakhar Sachan (2006 ISAD paper).

Prem Kumar (2007, ISAD, Intro video)

Translation by Sachin (2007 ISAD, Link)

Self Vs self by Sachin (2008 ISAD, link)

Manimaran and JP ( 2010, ISAD paper on Self Help groups)

Sachin’s paper (2010, ISAD, What we actually need)

Vivek Singh, Pune, (2011, ISAD, My journey)

Harish Usgaonker (2011, ISAD, The Magic Interview)

Dhruv Gupta (2013, ISAD, Turn Around Thinking)

Sachin (2014 ISAD, The Indian Story)

Vipul Patil (2016, ISAD, Mind war)

Pune/Mumbai SHG (2016, ISAD, People who buffer)

Abhinav Bakshi (2016, ISAD, School Chale ham)

Even though we did not have to report to any monitoring agency (!), TISA has produced many reports for future reference and our own learning.

Alternative-routes to Recovery

First mumbai meet (April 2008)

kolkata Communication workshop

First communication workshop at Herbertpur

tisa-nc-2014-khandala

Goa NC report

first_nc_report

NC2014_TISA_v02(by vikas ranga)

TISA Delhi CW 22-23 April, 2017 Report in Hindi

Jaipur CW March 2017 Report in Hindi

What lies beyond stammering? Who am I when I am neither fluent, nor stammering? What role am I playing when I am just quiet? When I am in deep sleep? These are some of the questions we ask, when we have gone beyond the misleading binary of fluency Vs Disfluency, set up by the society and our own expectations. Some of us did so, and were greatly helped in our inquiry by many great teachers, from east as well as west. Many of us have tried Vipassana, Brahma Vidya and other paths based on meditative traditions. We actively encourage pws to explore these paths because one of the phenomena seen in stammering is “Loss of self” or alienation: we do not belong anywhere because we stammer (that is what we believe). And this leads to a lot of inner suffering. This can lead to a deeper search but often is stifled by such notions: Just fix your stammering and everything will be ok!

It is quite legitimate and useful to ask: who am I beyond my stammering? It will be quite unfortunate if we went away happily after getting some relief thru Stuttering modification, fluency shaping, DAF/FAF gadget stuck in our ears, CBT, “life altering workshops” teaching us to be our authentic  (but fluent) self – without exploring the nature of Self itself. Who are we? Who is it who wants to be fluent at any cost? and then what?

To be an Indian pws and not wonder about these questions, is like being an American who never saw Disneyland!

Here we share some resources:

A beautiful story from Beata Akerman of Romania (her ISAD paper), for siblings and the family of a child who stammers. You may take turns at reading it at bedtime. Great story for practicing a role play with friends or siblings and to have fun. Captures well the feelings and expectations of children who stammer.

Hindi picture book; Hindi text without pictures,

English Picture book, English text without pictures

Hindi Animation Video, Podcast

Meant for children, these fun stories share some common sense ideas, which if understood, can help a child in recovery. (English, Hindi)

Samwad means communication in Hindi. This bilingual magazine was brought out with great joy and care by Harish and Amit, between 2011 and 2015. It showcased events and sentiments from various SHGs, with write ups from our overseas friends too. Here are all the issues as pdf files:

Volume 1 – Aug, 2010
Volume 2 – Nov, 2010
Volume 3 – Jan, 2011
Volume 4 – May, 2011
Volume 5 – Aug, 2011
Volume 6 – Oct, 2011
Volume 7 – Dec, 2011
Volume 8 – Apr, 2012
Volume 9 – Aug, 2012
Volume 10 – Nov, 2012
Volume 11 – Jan, 2013
Volume 12 – May, 2013
Volume 13 – Oct, 2013

Volume 14 – Sep. 2018

My Silent Pause ( Hunter Adair ) An interesting biography of a scotsman, who worked through his own difficulties and perfected his own technique – a pause and then start again when the audience looks at you.. Perhaps the first documentation of successful self help attempt.

My Experiments In Conquering Stuttering and Stammering  Can a stammerer fly a plane? Biography of a pws who became a fighter pilot.

What about your biography? Write and share here.