Here is a very interesting transcript of a phone interview with a recovered PWS; Some significant features in this story are: sometime a deeper change in life (changing jobs, city, friends etc) can help; self-knowledge, calmness and looking inwards can also help.. and what about Martial arts like Karate? Read on this very frank and […]
The workshop (13-14 Sept 08) has left us with these insights, lessons and thoughts, derived through the two sub group activities, discussions, feedback and the Question answer sessions. PWS do not come forward for therapy, self help etc because of conservative negative social attitudes. Some young PWS worry about the possibility of their offspring inheriting […]
F—–F..FriendsGet ready for the online conference (starts 1st October), hosted by Judith Kuster of Minnesota! She has been doing it for last so many years and has perfected it to a fine art (and science).. Check out the home page for more about it. Above is the logo for this year’s conference… http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/stutter.html And here […]
Check out this very touching story of Senator Joe Biden, a candidate for Vice President of the United States. He talks very frankly about his childhood stuttering and experiences..http://www.nsastutter.org/newdetails/index.php?id=212 A heart warming tale..
Here is something interesting: DRAFT BILL OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PEOPLE WHO STUTTER…http://www.stuttering.ws/bill_of_rights.htm
“Passing Twice” is a community of Gay and Lesbian people who stutter. Their website is very interesting and full of insights. Check out the story of Jeff Pulling,the inspiration behind it:http://passingtwice.com/7341.htmlsachin
The Journal of Stuttering Therapy, Advocacy and Research- is an online journal. It offers recent advances in our understanding of Stammering and what can be done about it. One of its recent issues has an interesting article on role of essays in therapy by Dale F. Williams, Ph.D., CCC-SLP. Here is the abstract: Using essays […]
FriendsStutterTalk is a website which offers you recordings (free of course) of interesting discussions on stammering as podcasts. Podcast is basically an MP3 file which you can play on your computer, MP3 player etc. Typical size is 20 mb which can take some time to download under Indian conditions. But once you download it, it […]
Post on Stutt-L. Guys and gals, The first list of adult and family workshops for the NSA Parsippany/NYC conference is now available on the NSA website at www.WeStutter.org. Click here for that listing. As always, six weeks before the conference, this list is very tentative and subject to change without notice. However it will give […]
Here is a ‘media kit’ for anyone to translate or adapt and send it to local newspaper or share with media in other ways. It briefly introduces the problem of stammering and TISA’s role. You can email us your translations, so that we can put it up here, for further distribution. Translation credits will be […]
“A ship in harbour is safe but that is not what ships were built for” – William Shedd, 19th Century author Following resource material was gratefully adapted from a write up from Michael Sugarman, National Stuttering Project, USA. This article covers two related and important areas: how to counsel others facing speech issues? Second- how […]
These three pictures provide basic information on stammering in Hindi. These can be printed like any graphic or can be read off the screen
This is a work in progress. If you do not find here what you are looking for, send us an email (satksri@rediffmail.com, akash.acharya@gmail.com). Following info has been collected from diverse sources. In particular we wish to acknowledge the following sources: The Stuttering Homepage (Judith Kuster, Minnesota State University) www.stutteringhelp.org British Stammering Association Indiastammering.com wikipedia.org 1. […]