In last few months I've talked to a lot of stutterers, and I've found that most of them are letting their lives controlled by their stuttering. It has become the proverbial tail that wags the dog.
In my opinion, the first step towards controlling stuttering will be to give it only it's due importance. Life goes much beyond stuttering and we must learn to feel pride in whatever we've achieved. I believe it'll go a long way in changing pur persona and will help in our speech :-)
Cheers
Nitin
May 29, 2009
Nepal Stutters Association
It is so nice to know that our friends in Nepal have a national organization devoted to people who stammer. It is heartening to know that they have been well organized and active since 2001.. They have a beautiful website. Please check out.
http://www.nsa.org.np
Sanjay Kumar Jha is the president. We hope that someday, we will be able to collaborate. By the way, Dr Akash is trying to get in touch with other organization and individuals- ie. he is networking on behalf of TISA..
http://www.nsa.org.np
Sanjay Kumar Jha is the president. We hope that someday, we will be able to collaborate. By the way, Dr Akash is trying to get in touch with other organization and individuals- ie. he is networking on behalf of TISA..
Pune SHG Meet
This week’s meet is at Peshve park, 3:00 p.m. , Sunday (31 May). For the next week’s meet, hopefully we will have some indoor space.
Agenda for this week:
1. Slow reading.
2. Speak on a topic (“What you did this week” or “About your Job” or “Any experience you want to share” or Any other thing you are interested in).
3. Question answer round.
4. Impromptu speech.
Jai Prakash, Coordinator PUNE SHG
May 22, 2009
Mumbai meets
Dear Friends,
Kindly find the details of the next meeting given below,
Venue:Shivaji Park,Dadar
Date :24 May 2009
Time :6:30 p.m.
-------
Thanks & Regards,
Ajit Potdar,
9930066424,
TISA-Mumbai.
Kindly find the details of the next meeting given below,
Venue:Shivaji Park,Dadar
Date :24 May 2009
Time :6:30 p.m.
-------
Thanks & Regards,
Ajit Potdar,
9930066424,
TISA-Mumbai.
May 19, 2009
Chennai meet
Dear friends,
The next Chennai Chapter monthly meeting will be held on 31.05.2009 ( not 24.05.2009) from 4 PM to 7 PM at YWCA mini conference hall. A lot of information will be taught in this class which will give new insight about stammering. If we are able to know about stammering well, we can easily tackle it.
Pl make use of this opportunity.
Regards,
V. Manimaran
Mobile: 098842 89989
The next Chennai Chapter monthly meeting will be held on 31.05.2009 ( not 24.05.2009) from 4 PM to 7 PM at YWCA mini conference hall. A lot of information will be taught in this class which will give new insight about stammering. If we are able to know about stammering well, we can easily tackle it.
Pl make use of this opportunity.
Regards,
V. Manimaran
Mobile: 098842 89989
Rumblings of a SHG from Banglore
A Self help group is about to take off through the initiative of Amithap and Dr Munishankar. This is a great beginning. We wish them God speed and all the best.
May 14, 2009
Do what you love!
Work and relationships are an important part of our lives. In fact, we constitute more than ninety percent of our self-concept based on these two areas: what we do, for whom we do, people we care about etc. Both these dimensions are consistently affected by our stammer. Many of us want to go in a certain profession, but end up somewhere else- simply because this other job is considered not to be communication-intensive. And then, spend rest of our lives thinking- wish I could have done that- not this!
So, Here is good news! You can do anything and everything: check this excellent website, referred by Ajit, who coordinates Self help group in Mumbai. Than you, Ajit!
http://www.stammeringlaw.org.uk/employment/jobs.htm
So, Here is good news! You can do anything and everything: check this excellent website, referred by Ajit, who coordinates Self help group in Mumbai. Than you, Ajit!
http://www.stammeringlaw.org.uk/employment/jobs.htm
May 9, 2009
New approaches to therapy
Here is a article discussing the role of other (than speech) variables in stammering:
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/barbaradahmdynamicstutteringtherapyspeechonlinefluencydisordersspeakingimpairedcommunications44050809.html
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/barbaradahmdynamicstutteringtherapyspeechonlinefluencydisordersspeakingimpairedcommunications44050809.html
May 8, 2009
Relapse
At the beginning of this year, I made a resolution to be able to control my stuttering. I got on to it on war footing - doing reading practice for 30 minutes in the morning, talking to fellow PWS for two hours in the evening through Skype, and organizing and attending TISA meetings on week-ends.
And all this benefited me immensely, the improvement in my speech was evident for all. People commented how I was more fluent than ever, and I was feeling good about myself.
Then the inevitable happened, I became complacent. I began skipping reading practice, and finding excuses to skip the Skype sessions, finding refuge behind being busy. Then in April, my wife had a daughter, and I had another valid excuse to skip TISA meetings and Skype session.
I didn't realize how much this was affecting me, until one day while talking to a fellow PWS - Anuj, he commented on how much I was stuttering. Then I realized that relapsed had occurred with a vengeance. Now is the time to fasten my seat-belt and get back to it with the same intensity. So here I come....
Cheers
Nitin
And all this benefited me immensely, the improvement in my speech was evident for all. People commented how I was more fluent than ever, and I was feeling good about myself.
Then the inevitable happened, I became complacent. I began skipping reading practice, and finding excuses to skip the Skype sessions, finding refuge behind being busy. Then in April, my wife had a daughter, and I had another valid excuse to skip TISA meetings and Skype session.
I didn't realize how much this was affecting me, until one day while talking to a fellow PWS - Anuj, he commented on how much I was stuttering. Then I realized that relapsed had occurred with a vengeance. Now is the time to fasten my seat-belt and get back to it with the same intensity. So here I come....
Cheers
Nitin
If you are in Pune..
Hi all,
Pune self help group (SHG) is planning to meet at Peshve Park at 3:00 p.m. on
10th May 2009.
Please contact me, if you wanna join.
Cheers,
Jai
9271205627
Pune self help group (SHG) is planning to meet at Peshve Park at 3:00 p.m. on
10th May 2009.
Please contact me, if you wanna join.
Cheers,
Jai
9271205627
May 1, 2009
Our common history
My dear Indian friends,
It's been many weeks or months since Sachin asked me to write an article for the TISA blog about how TISA was formed. It is about 1.15 on Thursday morning, and I am waiting for an American webinar to start. The webinar starts at two o'clock my time, but nine o'clock in the evening American time. It is a weekly webinar about how to make money on the American stock market. This is one of the journeys I decided to make because of the changes in my life since February 2006. I ran out of time, so I finished this on Friday the first of May.
In 2006 I made a momentous decision to avoid avoidance. This meant that I would no longer avoid speaking, or avoid going to places where I might have to speak, or avoid particular words. One of the first tasks I set myself was to telephone every member of my family and talk about my stammer and tell them I was going to seek out ways to reduce the amount I stammered. With hindsight this was a very good thing to do, but also contained one flaw. I had a goal to reduce the amount I stammered. By making this goal I was thinking about Stammering. Every successful person will tell you that what you think about you tend to focus on and that tends to happen. I only really learned this lesson during 2007/2008. But it started me on my path which has led to an amazing life and a goal of improving my communication. This is a more resourceful goal, because it looks ahead to what I want and it does not look backwards at what I want to leave behind.
The second thing I did was to look on the Internet about Stammering and I found an organisation called the International Stuttering Association (ISA). I e-mailed the chair, Mark Irwin, and asked if there was any way that I could help the ISA. He replied to me that the ISA and many national associations had received requests for help from people who stammered in both India and Pakistan. He asked me if I would raise the Stammering awareness in both India and Pakistan. My first instinct was to say no I had no idea how to do that, because I suspected that it would mean doing a lot of talking. But then I listened to my thoughts and I reminded myself that I had said I would avoid avoidance. So I replied to Mark, that I would begin in India and I would do the best that I was able to.
I had joined a number of Internet Stuttering groups. So I began by talking about this project in the Stuttering group's, one of which was IndianPWS. Slowly people began to respond and I formed a team of people willing to work on this project. They were Indians living in India as well as Indians living in different parts of the world. They had a range of skills and a range of time available to help on work.
The first thing we decided we needed was a website of our own, specifically for Indians. This needed to be the beginnings of an Indian National website that all Indians wherever they lived would be happy to visit regularly and to keep alive and active. So we needed a Webmaster who was able to design such a website. We had a volunteer and the website was formed (http://www.indiastammering.com/).
There were many speech language pathologists (SLP) in India. Many of which were trained in India at AIISH (see http://www.indiastammering.com/content/view/52/43/). But there was also evidence that some Indians who trained in this profession left India to work in other parts of the world. One reason given for doing this was because of the stigma attached to Stammering in India. The SLPs in India as well as in many parts of the world did not automatically have detailed experience and expertise in treating Stammering. This resulted in little coordination.
Because there appeared to be no central place for people who stammered in India to go to, we decided that we needed to form The Indians Stammering Association (TISA). Now it is one thing to have an idea like this and to say that an association like this was needed, but it's another thing to actually think how such an association might function and work to the benefit of every stammerer in India. So I spent time looking at how some other national associations were set up and operated. Based on this kind of information I thought of what things might be useful for TISA. I then suggested how TISA might be set up and might work and I explained my thoughts on our website . You may be interested to know that there are 627 people registered in our website. If you are interested in looking at the ideas I suggested please go to http://www.indiastammering.com/isa-stammering-awareness-project/plans-for-tisa/. This will give you direct access to many of the ideas that I suggested during this planning stage in 2006.
During the succeeding months since this work was done some of the initial planning team had to move on to other tasks in their lives. But that initial impetus, given to help Indians to organise themselves to provide help to any Indian who stammered, has continued and grown under the guidance of Sachin. There are now self-help groups in several cities and there is an increasing dialogue with parts of the media. And as always, more hands make light work (?600 hands?), so the more people there are, who give a little of their time to help TISA, the faster TISA will grow.
TISA needs a lot of publicity. So the more every one of you (?600?) can talk or write about TISA inside India or in the world; in your local media or your national media or in any of the chat groups discussion forums you belong to, the faster TISA will grow.
To paraphrase a quote made by a famous American President, "ask not what TISA can do for you, but what you (?600 of you?) can do for TISA". The more you do for TISA, the faster TISA will grow.
In 2006, TISA was just an idea. Now in 2009, TISA is a living, growing National Association. I thank everybody who has played a part in taking the idea, the dream, and producing the fine bouncing baby it is today. Different people have helped in many different ways and I think you should all congratulate yourselves. TISA has been born and thrives. TISA needs a lot of love and attention to grow into adulthood where it will have a life of its own.
So what lies ahead? This is purely in your own hands. For my own part I would expect that you will increase the number of self-help groups in different cities and increase the cooperation between the self-help groups. When the time is appropriate you will have more meetings or conferences. These will begin with half a day or a day meetings and in time with more interest could expand into two or three-day conferences. To begin with, the conferences might be regional, and then sometime you will have national conferences. When you manage to find a good fundraiser you will be able to pay for some people who stammer to begin setting up the physical structure of TISA.
I will be watching with a great deal of interest to see how TISA develops and at what speed you can increase the help given to more people who stammer in India. Can you reach another 500 people in 2009? If there is any way I can help in this process I will be very willing to do so.
A few weeks earlier I advised Sachin that I was starting a new project to raise Stammering awareness in Asia. So I'm looking forward to a time when TISA will be comfortable holding an Asian Stammering conference. Again if anybody reading this would be interested in helping in such a project please do not hesitate to contact me at keithmaxkb@yahoo.com.
I wish you all well and I welcome any work that any of you (?600+?)can do for TISA. As I have said before the more you can do for TISA, the faster TISA will grow.
Keith
It's been many weeks or months since Sachin asked me to write an article for the TISA blog about how TISA was formed. It is about 1.15 on Thursday morning, and I am waiting for an American webinar to start. The webinar starts at two o'clock my time, but nine o'clock in the evening American time. It is a weekly webinar about how to make money on the American stock market. This is one of the journeys I decided to make because of the changes in my life since February 2006. I ran out of time, so I finished this on Friday the first of May.
In 2006 I made a momentous decision to avoid avoidance. This meant that I would no longer avoid speaking, or avoid going to places where I might have to speak, or avoid particular words. One of the first tasks I set myself was to telephone every member of my family and talk about my stammer and tell them I was going to seek out ways to reduce the amount I stammered. With hindsight this was a very good thing to do, but also contained one flaw. I had a goal to reduce the amount I stammered. By making this goal I was thinking about Stammering. Every successful person will tell you that what you think about you tend to focus on and that tends to happen. I only really learned this lesson during 2007/2008. But it started me on my path which has led to an amazing life and a goal of improving my communication. This is a more resourceful goal, because it looks ahead to what I want and it does not look backwards at what I want to leave behind.
The second thing I did was to look on the Internet about Stammering and I found an organisation called the International Stuttering Association (ISA). I e-mailed the chair, Mark Irwin, and asked if there was any way that I could help the ISA. He replied to me that the ISA and many national associations had received requests for help from people who stammered in both India and Pakistan. He asked me if I would raise the Stammering awareness in both India and Pakistan. My first instinct was to say no I had no idea how to do that, because I suspected that it would mean doing a lot of talking. But then I listened to my thoughts and I reminded myself that I had said I would avoid avoidance. So I replied to Mark, that I would begin in India and I would do the best that I was able to.
I had joined a number of Internet Stuttering groups. So I began by talking about this project in the Stuttering group's, one of which was IndianPWS. Slowly people began to respond and I formed a team of people willing to work on this project. They were Indians living in India as well as Indians living in different parts of the world. They had a range of skills and a range of time available to help on work.
The first thing we decided we needed was a website of our own, specifically for Indians. This needed to be the beginnings of an Indian National website that all Indians wherever they lived would be happy to visit regularly and to keep alive and active. So we needed a Webmaster who was able to design such a website. We had a volunteer and the website was formed (http://www.indiastammering.com/).
There were many speech language pathologists (SLP) in India. Many of which were trained in India at AIISH (see http://www.indiastammering.com/content/view/52/43/). But there was also evidence that some Indians who trained in this profession left India to work in other parts of the world. One reason given for doing this was because of the stigma attached to Stammering in India. The SLPs in India as well as in many parts of the world did not automatically have detailed experience and expertise in treating Stammering. This resulted in little coordination.
Because there appeared to be no central place for people who stammered in India to go to, we decided that we needed to form The Indians Stammering Association (TISA). Now it is one thing to have an idea like this and to say that an association like this was needed, but it's another thing to actually think how such an association might function and work to the benefit of every stammerer in India. So I spent time looking at how some other national associations were set up and operated. Based on this kind of information I thought of what things might be useful for TISA. I then suggested how TISA might be set up and might work and I explained my thoughts on our website . You may be interested to know that there are 627 people registered in our website. If you are interested in looking at the ideas I suggested please go to http://www.indiastammering.com/isa-stammering-awareness-project/plans-for-tisa/. This will give you direct access to many of the ideas that I suggested during this planning stage in 2006.
During the succeeding months since this work was done some of the initial planning team had to move on to other tasks in their lives. But that initial impetus, given to help Indians to organise themselves to provide help to any Indian who stammered, has continued and grown under the guidance of Sachin. There are now self-help groups in several cities and there is an increasing dialogue with parts of the media. And as always, more hands make light work (?600 hands?), so the more people there are, who give a little of their time to help TISA, the faster TISA will grow.
TISA needs a lot of publicity. So the more every one of you (?600?) can talk or write about TISA inside India or in the world; in your local media or your national media or in any of the chat groups discussion forums you belong to, the faster TISA will grow.
To paraphrase a quote made by a famous American President, "ask not what TISA can do for you, but what you (?600 of you?) can do for TISA". The more you do for TISA, the faster TISA will grow.
In 2006, TISA was just an idea. Now in 2009, TISA is a living, growing National Association. I thank everybody who has played a part in taking the idea, the dream, and producing the fine bouncing baby it is today. Different people have helped in many different ways and I think you should all congratulate yourselves. TISA has been born and thrives. TISA needs a lot of love and attention to grow into adulthood where it will have a life of its own.
So what lies ahead? This is purely in your own hands. For my own part I would expect that you will increase the number of self-help groups in different cities and increase the cooperation between the self-help groups. When the time is appropriate you will have more meetings or conferences. These will begin with half a day or a day meetings and in time with more interest could expand into two or three-day conferences. To begin with, the conferences might be regional, and then sometime you will have national conferences. When you manage to find a good fundraiser you will be able to pay for some people who stammer to begin setting up the physical structure of TISA.
I will be watching with a great deal of interest to see how TISA develops and at what speed you can increase the help given to more people who stammer in India. Can you reach another 500 people in 2009? If there is any way I can help in this process I will be very willing to do so.
A few weeks earlier I advised Sachin that I was starting a new project to raise Stammering awareness in Asia. So I'm looking forward to a time when TISA will be comfortable holding an Asian Stammering conference. Again if anybody reading this would be interested in helping in such a project please do not hesitate to contact me at keithmaxkb@yahoo.com.
I wish you all well and I welcome any work that any of you (?600+?)can do for TISA. As I have said before the more you can do for TISA, the faster TISA will grow.
Keith
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)