The Indian Stammering Association

7 Oct 2014

Stammering Freely (Ep. 476)

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Vishal Gupta with Jacquelyn Revere

Vishal Gupta joins Reuben Schuff from the 2014 National Conference of The Indian Stammering Association (TISA). They discuss stammering freely, acceptance of stuttering, facing speaking fears, taking on speaking challenges at work such as adverting stuttering at work and much more. Mr Gupta shares that being a self help leader in the stuttering community has helped him become a leader at work.

VISHAL GUPTA is coordinator of TISA’s Self Help Group (SHG) in Delhi. He runs the popular Stammer Freely website.

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4 Oct 2014

Breaking Free from the Clutches of Stammering (Ep. 473)

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Shri Tarak Goradia

Shri Tarak Goradia joins StutterTalk host Reuben Schuff from the 2014 National Conference of The Indian Stammering Association (TISA). Dr. Goradia discusses the power of constructive feedback, effective public speaking skills which go well beyond stuttering and stammering and breaking free from the clutches of stammering. Tarak shares that the power of TISA is:

  • TISA brings stammerers together in a nonjudgemental platform,
  • TISA brings about importance of acceptance in the role of effective communication, and
  • TISA gives people hope – together people will not get rid of stammering, but work towards getting rid of stammering’s impact on the pursuit of excellence in their lives.

TARAK GOADIA holds a Ph.D. in computer science and is an experienced Leader in SW Architecture, Process, Quality, and Data Analytics in Bengaluru Area, India. Read Shri Goradia’s article Breaking Free from the Clutches of Stammering from TISA’s newsletter.

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5 Jul 2014

Dhruv Gupta of the Indian Stammering Association from the National Stuttering Association’s 2014 Annual Conference (Ep. 459)

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Dhruv Gupta

Dhruv Gupta joins Joel Korte, Caryn Herring and Roisin McManus of the StutterTalk B Team at the 2014 annual conference of the National Stuttering Association (NSA) in Washington, DC. DHRUV GUPTA is the newly appointed Executive Director of The Indian Stammering Association (TISA).

Dhruv is very active in the stuttering community. Today on StutterTalk Mr. Gupta is asked to discuss his participation in self help organizations for people who stutter including TISA, SAY: The Stuttering Association for the Young, the American Institute for Stuttering and Toastmasters. Dhruv discusses how relapse in stuttering treatment is normal and expected which is why self help groups for people who stutter are so important. Caryn noted that, as in a recent episode, all four speakers on today’s episode received speech therapy at the American Institute for Stuttering in Manhattan.

“How I mange my stuttering is, I try to stutter. I try to voluntarily stutter.” -Dhruv Gupta

Joel mentioned this StutterTalk episode on air today: Does Charlie Stutter? (Ep. 231)

You may contact Dhruv Gupta directly at dhruvg05@gmail.com. Join the Indian Stammering Association’s Facebook group here.

This StutterTalk episode was recorded and published Saturday, July 5th on the fourth day of the NSA’s annual conference.

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16 Sep 2012

Stammering is Okay with Dr. Satyendra Srivastava (365)

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Satyendra Srivastava

Dr. Satyendra Srivastava, a medical doctor and stammerer in India, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss his new self help manual for people who stammer (stutter) which will be available from The Indian Stammering Association (blog and website). Dr. Strivastava, known to his friends as Sachin, writes in his new manual:

“You are changed, not by what you know, but by what you do.”

Sachin and Peter discuss the power of doing, acceptance, highlights of the manual, gender issues for people who stammer in India and a few differences of opinion. During today’s episode, Sachin discussed an article titled Towards a Notion of Transfluency by Cristóbal Loriente.

Dr. Satyendra Srivastava was born in 1959 in India and worked as a General Practitioner in hospitals until 1993. Sachin founded The Indian Stammering Association (TISA), a self-help association, in 2007 and has conducted free workshops for people who stutter based on communication skills, acceptance and self help ideas. Dr. Srivastava has conducted training in Health Management and worked as Program Manager with a large Non Governmental Agency in Garhwal. Sachin has conducted social research, documentation, program evaluation and facilitated workshops on health, gender issues, disability and more.

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