Audiology & Speech Language Pathology

Academic Qualification

• MASLP

Professional Record

• Lecturer 2014 till date

Area of Interest

• Child language disorders
• Neurogenic adult language disorders

Current Activities

• Curriculum preparation for the ASHA and ANUYATRA workers

Membership

• Life member of ISHA (Indian Speech & Hearing Association)
• Member of RCI-Reg No: A49788 (Rehabilitation Council of India)
• Member of KSHA

OngoingProjects

• Co-Investigator in "Evaluation of the effect of training in magical sciences and a variety of art forms and training using conventional therapy in addition on behavioral and other outcomes among differently abled children", a collaborative project by Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences (ICCONS) and Different Arts Centre (Academy of Magical Sciences)"

Organisational Activities

• Organized group therapy for children with language age up to 3years
• Organized camps on disability week
• Organized audiology camp on word hearing day on 2 successive years
• Assessment, diagnosis and management for communicative disorders for all age

Professional Experience

• Screening camps
• Conducted workshop (St Thomas higher secondary school Trivandrum) on teachers training program for the identification and management of children with specific learning disorders
• Vacation training programs for specific learning disorder
• Participated as resource person in teachers training programs
• Organized group therapy for kids starting from the age of 6yrs and above
• Handled sessions CRE programme organized by the institute for communicative and cognitive neurosciences (ICCONS) Thiruvananthapuram
• Handled awareness class for parents organized by BRC
• Organized 2months group therapy during summer vacation
• Involved in the assessment of differently abled children in Magic Planet organized by Kerala social security mission KSSM) & Kerala Development & Innovation Strategic Council (K-DISC)

Presentations

• Paper presentations in CRE Programme on the topic "Development of Play and Social Skills in ASD" held on 16th to 17th December 2022 at ICCONS, Thiruvananthapuram
• Paper presentations was done at department of linguistics and department of psychology based on evaluating the efficacy of stuttering treatment outcome using ABAB research design – A pilot study
• Auditory Word Processing In Children With Visual Priming In Adverse Listening Condition at the 45th national conference held in Chennai
• Effect Of Priming On Coding Mixing And Code Swithcing In Typically Developing Bilingual (Malayalam –English) Speaking Children Of Age 8-9yrs at the 45th national conference held in Chennai
• Establishment Of Acoustic Norms For PRAAT Software In 13–15-Year-Old Boys at the 45th national conference held in Chennai
• Resource person in the CRE Webinar entitled “Learning Disability and its Differential Diagnosis” held on 6 th and 7 th May 2021 at Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences (ICCONS), Thiruvananthapuram.
• Presented a paper in an one day workshop for Special Educators from the Autism Centres (Thiruvananthapuram) was conducted at ICCONS, Thiruvananthapuram on 12th November 2022. This workshop is the part of a project by Sarva Siksha Kerala (SSK).
• Resource person in the CRE Programme entitled “Development of play and Social Skills in Children with ASD” held on 16th to 17th December 2022 at Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences (ICCONS), Thiruvananthapuram.

Invited Talks

• As a subject expert in the development of curriculum for “Speech and Audio Therapy Assistant” course of VHSE organized by SCERT
• Training/ Practical expertise given to catalyst in handling cases on disabilities from age 15 – 40 yrs organized by Kerala Social Security Mission
• As a resource person for continuing rehabilitation education (CRE) of Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) organized by ICCONS in 2020 &2021.
• Conducted workshop on teachers training program for the identification and management of children with Learning Disability at St.Thomas School, Trivandrum
• Training/ Practical expertise given to catalyst in handling cases on disabilities from age 15 – 40 yrs organized by Kerala Social Security Mission