Speech Language & Hearing Sciences
HOD Profile
Areas of Research Interest:
Voice and its disorders, Professional voice, Stuttering, Speech Disorders, Speech/language/communication sciences.
Awards and honours:
International Fellowship: 1. Year 2005-06: Fulbright Junior Research Fellowship, at University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Education/academic awards:
1. Year 2001:“Arati Venkatraman Memorial Gold Medal” for securing the First rank in the University examination 2000, awarded by the University of Mysore.“Dr. P.D. Manohar endowment gold medal” for securing the highest marks in speech pathology in the University examination 2000, awarded by the University of Mysore.
2. Year 2000: “Abhilasha Award for the best student clinician, 1999-2000” awarded by the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore.
3. Year 1995-2000: “Merit Scholarships” awarded by AIISH for securing I Rank in the University exams in B.Sc. & M.Sc. (Speech and Hearing).
4. Year 1999:“Rank Certificate” for securing the First rank in the B.Sc. (Speech and Hearing), awarded by the University of Mysore.
University awards and service recognitions:
1.“Excellence in teaching award -2019”
2.“10 years continuous service medallion” (2010)
Scientific Forums:
1. Year 2014: “Best Paper Award – Speech Acoustics”, National Symposium on Acoustics, Mysore awarded by the Acoustical society of India.
2. Year 2013: “Dr. M. Raghunath award for the Best Paper in Speech language”, ISHACON 2013, Chennai awarded by the Indian Speech and Hearing Association.
3. Year 2011: “Muktesh award for the Best Paper in Speech”, ISHACON 2011, Calcutta awarded by the Indian Speech and Hearing Association.
4. Year 2010: “Muktesh award for the Best Paper in Speech”, ISHACON 2010, Bangalore awarded by the Indian Speech and Hearing Association.
5. Year 2009: “Dr. Abrol’s award for the Best Paper in Voice”, ISHACON 2009, Pune awarded by the Indian Speech and Hearing Association.
6. Year 2005: “Dr. Raghunathan Memorial Award for the Best Poster Presentation in Speech Pathology”, ISHACON 2005, Indore, awarded by the Indian Speech and Hearing Association.
7. Year 2004: “Dr. Raghunathan Memorial Award for the Best Poster Presentation in Speech Pathology”, ISHACON 2004, Mysore, awarded by the Indian Speech and Hearing Association.
8. Year 2003: “Dr. Abrol’s award for the Best Paper in Voice”, ISHACON 2003, Chennai awarded by the Indian Speech and Hearing Association.
9. Year 1999: “Outstanding Presentation of the Scientific Paper” at the V Technical session of the Madras India Regional Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America, Chennai.
10. Year 1998: “Manohar Memorial Young scientist award” for the best paper in speech pathology, ISHACON 30, Puri, awarded by the Indian Speech and Hearing Association.
Research
1.Coinvestigator in “Development of speech-language and neurodevelopmental skills among preterm children: A prospective longitudinal study”, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India , 2016-2019.(Principal investigator: Dr. Lakshmi Venkatesh,Co investigators: Roopa Nagarajan,Binu Ninan)2.Principal investigator in “Ornaments in Carnatic singing”. Project during the Fulbright Research Fellowship at the Voice Performance Laboratory, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA – with Ronald C Scherer, Research Professor,Dept. of Otolaryngology, University of Cincinnati, USA), 2005-2006.
3. Co-investigator in "Quantification of perceived nasality using Nasalence score in Tamil speaking population”. Smile Train Kay Grant - awarded by Kay Elemetrics, 2003- 2006.(Principal investigator: Sunitha V Raman, Co-investigators: Roopa Nagarajan).
Intramural:
1.Principal investigator in “Clinical validation of a multi parametric approach to assessment of voice”, SRU- Gate project, 2009-2010. (Co-investigators: John Samuel, A. Ravikumar & Roopa Nagarajan)publications
