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From: Lisa LaSalle
Date: 03 Oct 2005
Time: 20:24:19 -0500
Remote Name: 134.29.31.126
Sonali, As I understand how this online conference works, I am not the only professor on the panel, but I’ll begin to answer your question. First off, I am so sorry that your stuttering began after a slap from a school teacher. It could be that you were predisposed to stutter, and/or this unfortunate event plus an understandable fear of speaking that resulted from it triggered the onset of your stuttering at age 10. You are not alone in saying that you stutter more when you are “nervous,” and that you get stuck on words that begin with certain sounds. These reports are common across many people who stutter. It would be helpful to know what aspects of therapy that you got 8 years ago that seemed to help your stuttering. Knowing this would help you to answer your question if there is anything you can do at home to help your stuttering. I came up with the following sites when I “googled” on stuttering and India, so it might help you to: (a) decide which description is closest to the therapy you got previously, and (b) whether there is a different approach that you might be able to benefit from. As I scan these sites, I notice that the fourth one is a self-help group for people who stutter. I think support groups can be very beneficial experiences, simply to find out what has helped others who stutter, and for the camaraderie involved. The Speech Foundation - http://www.speechfoundation.com Intensive short courses and self-help audio-cassette programs for treatment of stammering/stuttering, in Pune, India. Developed by Ajit Harisinghani, MS(USA),CCC-Sp.(USA). StammeringIndia.com - http://stammeringindia.com Online source of information about stammering and its treatment with psycho-speech therapy. Presented by speech pathologist Dyal Chhabra of Chandigarh, India. SpeechTherapyIndia.org - http://www.speechtherapyindia.org/ Stuttering treatment, by combination of speech, group, and maintenance therapies, in New Delhi. Adlakha's Self-Help Group for the Treatment of Stammering/Stuttering - http://www.geocities.com/swarsudharsociety/ Meeting to overcome stammering/stuttering by way of speech therapy, psychotherapy, and group-maintenance therapy. One more thing. Under the ISAD announcements, Indra Shrisreth states that "I want to inform you that in occasion of "International Stuttering Awareness Day", Nepal Stutters' Association is going to conduct two days workshop for strengthening the NSA in Nepal. The workshop will be held with the theme "Planning of NSA activities for 2006 to 2008" in October 19 & 20 at Marshyandi Hotel, Thamel, Kathmandu. This program is going to held with collaboration of The Association of Stutterers in Denmark. Mr. Hermann and Mr. Torben from Denmark is participating this program. The main objective of this workshop is to prepare the plan for increasing the activities of NSA and opening the branch offices outside the Capital." Hope this helps. Best of luck to you, Lisa R. LaSalle, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Professor Communication Sciences & Disorders Dept. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI 54702