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From: Judy Kuster
Date: 18 Oct 2004
Time: 14:22:50 -0500
Remote Name: 134.29.30.89
Joe, I'm sure this is a very upsetting time for you and I am really glad you found this conference and wrote to us. Maybe some of the others will also have some more ideas for you, but I will start by saying that there is support and therapy for people who stutter (stammer) in India. Contact Mr. J. C. Nigam, C/O Fluency Club, in Delhi. I will send you his address and phone number in a private email message if you contact me. Hopefully he will be able to guide you to a speech therapist who will be able to offer you some advice. There are also three people from India listed on http://stuttersfa.org/reflists/ref_indi.htm Even if you do not live close to them, they may know of someone who does. The Stuttering Foundation of America has some books that I would recommend to start learning more about stuttering - Advice to Those Who Stutter and Self-Therapy for the Stutterer. If you email me privately with your mailing list, I will send them to you. There is a mailing list on the internet where people from India also share their ideas and information. The person who started the list made the file of the entire conference. His name is Viren and his group information is online at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndianPWS/ I know dentists here in the U.S. and also one in Australia who stutter. The one in Australia has written a short article on this year's conference about a project he helped with to help children who stutter. He also wrote a nice article for the online conference a couple of years ago. His name is Mark Irwin and you might want to read about him and about what he wrote at http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad5/papers/irwin.html Good luck, Joe, and I'm glad you wrote. Judy Kuster