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Academic
- Doctoral program in speech language pathology and Audiology
- Short term clinical training
to post-graduates and Diploma in ENT
- Clinical internship programs to under-graduates in
Speech and Hearing
Research
Several research studies are
in progress which includes doctoral as well as other research projects. Following are the current
research studies initiated at the department:
Doctoral Research:
- Aravindkumar: Central Auditory Processing in patients with complex partial seizures of medial
temporal lobe origin with and without medial temporal lobe sclerosis – Guide: Dr.N.Shivashankar;
Co-Guides: Dr Satishchandra P and Dr Sanjeeb Sinha, Dr Subbakrishna D
- Priya Kayastha :
Early intervention for reading difficulties among first standard students – Guide: Dr Uma H; Co-Guide:
Dr N.Shivashankar
- Madhuri Gore:under the Bangalore University – Guide: Dr Nagaraja MN;
Co-Guide: Dr N.Shivashankar
- Pradeep Y: Identification of subgroups of subjects with
auditory dys-synchrony who may benefit from hearing aids – Guide: Dr M Jayaram
- R. Neeraja
Karthi: Characteristics of reading and writing in aphasics and their parallels with spontaneous speech
and auditory verbal comprehension – Guide: Dr M Jayaram Co-guide: Dr D. Nagaraja
- Praveen
Kumar: MRI study of perception of short segments of speech in auditory dys-synchrony – Guide:
Dr M Jayaram Co-guides: Dr D. Nagaraja; Dr Jerry M.E Kovur
Other Research Projects:
Department of Science and
Technology (DST) top-down research project: Brain organization of language in normative
multilingualism.
The above multidisciplinary
and multicentered research project has been initiated with department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
as the coordinator under Dr. N. Shivashankar. The research component with which the department is
engaged in is: "Code switching in normative bi/multilingualism".
Health Care
The department offers services
to patients referred from other departments in NIMHANS, outside organizations and self referred.
Following are the areas of speech-language-hearing disorders to which the services are being offered:
- Developmentally delayed speech and language,
- Developmentally deviant speech and
language,
- Regressed speech and language,
- Aphasia,
- Dementia,
- Phonological disorders,
- Voice disorders,
- Dysarthria,
- Learning disability,
- Fluency disorders
- Speech and language disorders of
psychogenic origin,
- Dysphagia,
- Neuro-auditory disorders,
- Central auditory
processing disorders, and
- Pseudo-hypoacusis.
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