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Paper Presentation in National Conferences / Seminars by Core Faculties 2018  Dr. Dhanshree R Gunjawate presented a paper titled ‘Voice related changes in individuals who smoke - A systematic review of literature’ at America Speech Language Hearing Annual Convention, Boston, USA in November 15th-17th 2018.  Ms. Manita Thomas presented a paper titled ‘Is grass really greener on the other side? A study of analogy perception across age groups’ at 12th International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine World Congress, Paris, France on July 8-12 2018  Ms. Nikitha B Theruvan presented a paper titled ‘Role of TFS in perception of natural and whispered speech’ at the Audiology Australia Network Conference, Sydney, Australia on 20th – 23rd May, 2018.  Ms. Aysha Shalofa, III BASLP, presented a paper titled “Motor Speech Profile Characteristics in Malayalam speaking Young Adults-A preliminary study” at the Manipal Research Colloquium, Manipal between 3rd to 5th April 2018  Mr. Harish S. Dammanagi, III BASLP, presented a paper titled “Knowledge of Voice Care among Individuals with Normal Voice and Dysphonia” at the Manipal Research Colloquium, Manipal between 3rd to 5th April 2018.  Ms. Malavika A.A. presented a paper titled ‘Cognitive Communicative Abilities in Adolescents: A preliminary study in India’ at the 4th International Conference on Social Studies and Humanities, Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka on 22nd and 23rd February, 2018.  Dr. Kaushlendra Kumar presented an oral paper titled ‘Test retest reliability of vestibular evoked myogenic potential across different age groups’ at Bihar chapter of Indian speech and hearing association conference (BISHA-CON), held at Patna between 10-11 March 2018.

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• Ms. Rohana Nair and Ms. Raveena Nair, III BASLP students, presented a paper titled

“Voice in Individuals with Sulcus Vocalis: Case Series Study” under the guidance of Dr. Radheesh Kumar at the Nitte Voice Assessment and Therapeutics Conference held at Derlakatte, Mangalore between 22nd-24th February 2018.

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• Ms. Jeeva Jolly, III BASLP, presented a paper titled “Effect of Double Source SOVT

Exercise on Normophonics” under the guidance of Dr. Radheesh Kumar and Ms. Malavika AA at the Nitte Voice Assessment and Therapeutics Conference held at Derlakatte, Mangalore between 22nd-24th February 2018.

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• Ms. Aysha Shalofa, III BASLP, presented a paper titled “Knowledge of Voice Care

among Individuals with Normal Voice and Dysphonia” under the guidance of Dr. Dhanshree Gunjawate at the Nitte Voice Assessment and Therapeutics Conference held at Derlakatte, Mangalore between 22nd-24th February 2018.

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Ms.Jesty Rajan , III BASLP, presented a paper titled “ Effect of Straw Phonation on Acoustic Measures in Normaphonic Individuals” under the guidance of Dr. Radheesh Kumar and Ms. Malavika AA at the Nitte Voice Assessment and Therapeutics Conference held at Derlakatte, Mangalore between 22nd-24th February 2018.

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• Mr. Harish S. Dammanagi, III BASLP, presented a paper titled “Motor Speech Profile

Characteristics in Malayalam speaking Young Adults-A preliminary study” under the

guidance of Dr. Dhanshree R Gunjawate at the Nitte Voice Assessment and Therapeutics Conference held at Derlakatte, Mangalore between 22nd-24th February 2018.

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• Mr. Harish S. Dammanagi, III BASLP, presented a paper titled “Retrospective Analysis
• f Voice disorders with Phonatory Gap: Variation across Hypo functional and Hyper

functional Voice disorders” under the guidance of Ms. Malavika AA at the Nitte Voice Assessment and Therapeutics Conference held at Derlakatte, Mangalore between 22nd- 24th February 2018.

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Ms.Shibili Parveen, III BASLP, presented a paper titled “Immediate Effect of Gargling and Oral Rinsing in Singers as Vocal Warm Up Exercises ” under the guidance of Ms.Usha K and Dr. Jayashree S Bhat at the Nitte voice Assessment and Theraputics Conference held at Derlakatte, Mangalore between 22nd-24th February 2018.  Dr. Gunjawate D.R. presented a paper titled ‘Can Diabetes Mellitus lead to voice changes? A Systematic review of literature’ at the South Asian Evidence Summit 2018, Public Health Evidence South Asia, Prasanna School of Public Health, MAHE, between 2- 3rd February, 2018.  Ms. Greeshma Jomin, II MASLP, presented a paper titled “Comparison of Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential and Dizziness Handicap Inventory in individuals with peripheral vestibular lesions between pre and post vestibular rehabilitation” under the guidance of Dr. Kaushlendra Kumar at the Kerala ISHA 10 Annual conference held at Kollam, Kerala between 13th and 14th January 2018.  Ms. Alisha Appose, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Assessing the macrostructure of

• ral narratives in children between 6 - 11 years of age’ under the guidance of Dr. Sudhin

Karuppali at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 50) held at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore between 5th and 7th January 2018.  Ms. Sruthi Elezebath James, presented a paper titled “Profiling the play behaviors in typically developing children in the age range of 12-24 months” under the guidance of

• Dr. Jayashree S Bhat and Ms. Megha Mohan, at the Indian Speech and Hearing

Association Conference (ISHACON 50) held at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore between 5th and 7th January, 2018.  Ms Sanjana Poovaiah, II MASLP, presented a paper titled 'The effect of order of frequency in chained stimuli on CAEPs' under the guidance of Mr Mohan Kumar at the Indian speech and hearing Association conference (ISHACON 50) held at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru between 5th and 7th January 2018.  Ms. Saranya B, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Kymographic characteristics of voice in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome’ under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar B at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association Conference (ISHACON 50) held at All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, Mysore between 5th & 7th January 2016.  Ms. Arya S Kumar, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘A study to assess the awareness and attitude of teachers towards primary school children with stuttering’ under the guidance of Ms.Aiswarya Liz Varghese at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 50) held at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing between 5th and 7th January 2018.  Ms. Renu P. Joseph, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Profiling cognitive communicative abilities in adults with Aphasia-case series’ under the guidance of

• Dr. Gagan Bajaj, Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat and Mrs. Vinitha George, at the Indian speech

and hearing Association conference (ISHACON 50) held at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru between 5th and 7th January 2018.  Ms. Anupriya E, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘test retest reliability of vestibular evoked myogenic potential with simultaneous and sequential recording’ under the guidance of Dr. Kaushlendra Kumar, at the Indian speech and hearing Association conference (ISHACON 50) held at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru between 5th and 7th January 2018. 2017  Ms. Sanjana P Hebbar presented a paper titled ‘Role of pre-attentional and working memory resources in a prospective memory task – a correlational study at the International Conference on Audiological Sciences, 2017 at KMC Mangalore.  Ms. Anupriya .E, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Test retest reliability of cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential with simultaneous recording’ under the guidance of Dr. Kaushlendra Kumar at the International Conference of Audiological Sciences (3rd ICAS) held at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore between 21st and 23rd September 2017.  Ms. Sanjana Poovaiah, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘The effect of order of frequency in chain stimuli on CAEP’s’ under the guidance of Mr. Mohan Kumar at the International Conference of Audiological Sciences (3rd ICAS) held at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore between 21st and 23rd September 2017.  Ms. Manita Thomas presented a poster titled “Contribution of Temporal Fine structure cues to concurrent vowel identification: Implication in Cochlear Implant” at the British Academy of Audiology 14th Annual Conference on 16th & 17th November 2017.  Ms. Nawal Palakkal Sathar and Mr. Harish S D III BASLP students presented a poster titled “Does the Clinical Features of Voice Disorders vary with Phonatory Gap? A Clinical Voice Analysis.” at ICHTR Conducted by MUSRF under the guidance of Malavika Anakkathil Anil  Ms. Shaima and Ms Sunaina III BASLP students presented a poster titled “Insight Into The Communication Profile Of Monozygotic Twins With Phenylketonuria (PKU)” at ICHTR Conducted by MUSRF under the guidance of Dr. Sudhin Karuppali and Ms. Manita Thomas in November 2017.  Ms. Fatima Abdul Salam and Mr Mathew Thomas Ettiyathara, III BASLP students presented a poster titled “Guillian Barre Syndrome – Case Reports From A Speech Language Pathologist’s Perspective” at ICHTR conducted by MUSRF under the guidance of Ms Megha Mohan in November 2017.  Ms Hasla Hamza and Ms Fatima Salam III BASLP students presented a poster titled “Test For Auditory Attention” at ICHTR Conducted by MUSRF under the guidance of

• Dr. Arivudai Nambi in November 2017.

 Ms. Jeeva Jolly and Ms. Jesty Rajan III BASLP students presented a poster titled” Effects Of Tongue Trills On Vocal Performance Of Normophonics Individuals” at ICHTR Conducted by MUSRF under the guidance of Ms. Malavika A.A & Dr. Radheesh in November 2017.  Ms. Jeeva Jolly and Ms. Jesty Rajan III BASLP students presented a poster titled “Effects

• f Single Source Semi Occluded Vocal Tract Exercises on Normophonics: An Acoustic

Analysis” at ICHTR Conducted by MUSRF under the guidance of Ms. Malavika A.A & Dr.Radhish in November 2017.  Ms Mary Jose and Ms Rohana M Nair III BASLP students presented a poster titled “Communication impairment in siblings of ASD-a case vignette at ICHTR Conducted by MUSRF under the guidance of Dr Somashekara H S in November 2017.  Mr Mohd Amaan Khan, Ms Raveena M. Nair, Ms Rohana M. Nair and Ms Saranya B III BASLP, II MASLP students presented a poster titled “Voice Characteristics In Individuals With Sulcus Vocalis- Case Series Study.” at ICHTR Conducted by MUSRF under the guidance of Mrs Sonia Babu and Dr Radhish Kumar Balasubramanyam in November 2017.  Ms Zaiba Fatima Khateeb and Ms Nawal Palakkal Sathar III BASLP students presented a poster titled “Perception of American English Phonemes by Native Speakers of Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada” at ICHTR Conducted by MUSRF under the guidance of Mr Mohan Kumar Kalaiah in November 2017.  Ms.Rohana Nair and Ms.Raveena Nair III BASLP students presented an oral presentation titled “ Early Mathematical Skills in Typically Developing Children” at ICHTR Conducted by MUSRF under the guidance of Dr. Somashekara H S in November 2017.  Ms. Malavika A.A presented a paper titled ‘Do Interrupters Interrupt Working Memory Performance? A Study on Young Aged Adults’ at the 7th Emirates Otorhinolaryngology, Audiology and Communication Disorders Congress; which was held at the Inter Continental Festival City Hotel, Dubai, UAE between 18th to 20th January 2017.  Ms. Sonia Babu presented a paper titled ‘Does UES Opening Exercises helps in Pharyngeal Contraction? Evidences using Cervical Auscultation’ at the 7th Emirates Otorhinolaryngology, Audiology and Communication Disorders Congress; which was held at the Inter Continental Festival City Hotel, Dubai, UAE between 18th to 20th January 2017.  Ms. Nikhitha Theruvan presented a paper titled ‘Role of F0 and Harmonics in TFS mediated speech recognition in noise- A probe using whispered and natural speech’ at the 7th Emirates Otorhinolaryngology, Audiology and Communication Disorders Congress; which was held at the Inter Continental Festival City Hotel, Dubai, UAE between 18th to 20th January 2017.  Ms. Vibha Kanagokar presented a paper titled ‘Bilinguals Language Proficiency and Speech Perception in Noise’ at the 7th Emirates Otorhinolaryngology, Audiology and Communication Disorders Congress; which was held at the Inter Continental Festival City Hotel, Dubai, UAE between 18th to 20th January 2017  Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat presented project proposal titled “Development of phonological processing assessment tool for typically developing primary school children” at ERIC meeting held at Delhi on 30.01.2017. 2016  Dr. Radish Kumar B attended RW-103rd International Conference on Arts, Education and social Science (ICAES) and presented a paper titled ‘Phonological mean length of utterance: A new entity for morphosyntax and phonological measurement’ at Bali, Indonesia on 28th & 29th December 2016.

 Dr. Sudhin Karuppali presented a paper titled ‘Does the verbal ability of children with autism spectrum disorders influence the mother’s interactive role? Evidence from using dyadic parent-child interaction coding system’ which was presented during RW-103rd International Conference on Arts, Education and social Science (ICAES) held at Bali, Indonesia on 28th & 29th December 2016.  Ms. Bhavana G, II MASLP PG student presented a paper titled “Kymographic analysis of voice during different phases of menstrual cycle” under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Ms. Sujitha R, II MASLP PG student presented a paper titled “Contribution of Temporal Fine Structure cues to concurrent vowel identification” under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi, at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Ms. Divyashree M S, II MASLP PG student presented a paper titled “Reliability of binaural interaction component using speech evoked auditory brainstem response” under the guidance of Dr. Kaushalendra Kumar at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry

• n 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.

 Ms. Meenakshi Gopinath, II MASLP PG student presented a paper titled “Effect of Sudarshankriya yoga on auditory processing and speech perception in middle aged adults” under the guidance of Mr. Rajesh Ranjan at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Ms. Sreeshma R, II MASLP PG student presented a paper titled “Temporal and frequency resolution among monolingual, bilingual and multilingual children” under the guidance of Dr. Kaushlandra Kumar at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Ms. Sreeshma. R, II MASLP PG student presented a paper titled “Vocal loading and recovery pattern in speech language pathologists” under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Ms. Kavya, II MASLP PG student presented a paper titled “Effect of Menstrual Cycle on Cepstral Measures among Singers and Non Singers” under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Ms. Nandita JP, II MASLP PG student presented a paper titled “Assessment of working memory in individuals with stuttering” under the guidance of Ms. Aiswarya Liz Varghese at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Ms. Akhila.R.N, II MASLP PG student presented a paper titled “Effect of short-term musical training on auditory processing and speech perception in adverse listening conditions in older adults” under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Ms. Ashwini.J, II MASLP PG student presented a paper titled “Effect of level of Musical training on auditory processing and speech perception in noise” under the guidance of

• Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th

November 2016.  Ms. Nikita D Dadlani, II MASLP PG student presented a poster titled ‘Effects of Socio- economic Status on Language Development in Children between 2 to 5 years’ under the

guidance of Dr. Sudhin Karuppali at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Ms. Florida D’souza, II MASLP PG student presented a paper titled “Development and validation of Test for Swallowing Assessment in Neonates (T-SAN)” under the guidance

• f Dr. Radish Kumar at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th

November 2016.  Ms. Saniya Mariyam Rasheeka, III BASLP UG student presented a paper titled ‘Effect of Modified Chin Tuck Against Resistance (CTAR) and Modified Shaker’s on Upper Esophageal Sphincter Opening (UES) in Individuals with Mechanical Dysphagia and Neurogenic Dysphagia – A Case Study’ under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar B at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Ms. Tanya Rukiya, III BASLP UG student presented a paper titled ‘Exploring Parental Concerns towards Developmental Speech Fluency – A Cross Sectional Study’ under the guidance of Mr. Gagan Bajaj at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Ms. Apramita Deshpande, III BASLP UG student presented a paper titled ‘Parent, Child and Plan – Exploring the Dynamics of the Triad using Video Based Analysis’ under the guidance of Mr. Gagan Bajaj at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Ms. Athira, III BASLP UG student presented a paper titled ‘Effect of modified Shakers exercise in individual with reduced pharyngeal contraction: a single case study’ under the guidance of Ms. Sonia Babu at the 6th TANISHACON held at Puducherry on 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016.  Gagan Bajaj, Vinitha George, and Jayashree S Bhat authored the research paper titled “Study of Age Associated Changes in Everyday Cognitive Communication and the Related Well-being” presented at the International Conference on Well-being 2016, held from 31 October 2016 to 1 November 2016 at SIM University, Singapore.  Vinitha George, Gagan Bajaj, and Jayashree S Bhat authored the research paper titled “The Efficacy of Everyday Working Memory Training on Cognitive-Communicative Well-being” presented at the International Conference on Well-being 2016, held from 31 October 2016 to 1 November 2016 at SIM University, Singapore.  Namratha Hullathi, Gagan Bajaj, Vinitha George, and Jayashree S Bhat authored the research paper titled “Combined Effect of Yoga and Conventional Working Memory Training on Cognitive-Communicative Well-being” presented at the International Conference on Well-being 2016, held from 31 October 2016 to 1 November 2016 at SIM University, Singapore.  Mridula Nair, Vinitha George, Gagan Bajaj, Jayashree S Bhat authored the research paper titled “Effect of Age on Working Memory Training in Healthy Adults” presented at the International Conference on Well-being 2016, held from 31 October 2016 to 1 November 2016 at SIM University, Singapore.  Dr. Sudhin Karuppali presented a paper titled ‘Lexical density and diversity in written genre: A developmental perspective in adolescents if India’ at IAFOR International Conference on Language Learning in Dubai held between 27th to 29th February 2016

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 Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat presented a paper titled ‘ A cross sectional study of HRV among medical students with different levels of obesity’ at 2nd Asia pacific conference on

advanced research (APCAR-2016) held at Melbourne, Australia on 27th and 28th February 2016.  Dr. Kaushlendran Kumar attended and presented a paper titled ‘Distortion product

• toacoustic emission findings in industrial worker’ at the NHCA’s 2016 annual hearing

conservation conference on 18th - 20th Feb 2016, San Diego, CA, USA.  Ms. Ananya A, II MASLP student, presented a paper titled ‘Native language influence on syllable awareness in children learning English as a second language’ under the guidance

• f Mr. Somashekara H.S and Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat, at National Conference on Inter–

Disciplinary Disability Rehabilitation held between 12th & 14th February 2016 at MAHE.  Ms. Anjana Hoode, II MASLP student, presented a paper titled ‘Visual word recognition in English and Kannada biliterates: Effect of Frequency’ under the guidance of Mr. Somashekara H.S, at National Conference on Inter–Disciplinary Disability Rehabilitation held between 12th & 14th February 2016 at MAHE.  Ms. Jesna Joy, II MASLP student, presented a paper titled ‘Relationship between phonological processing and reading abilities in typically developing Malayalam English bi-literate children’ under the guidance of Mr. Somashekara H.S at National Conference

• n Inter–Disciplinary Disability Rehabilitation held between 12th & 14th February 2016 at

MAHE.  Mr. Gagan Bajaj presented a poster titled ‘Introduction of case based learning to undergraduate students of Audiology and Speech to ease the transition from preclinical to clinical years’ at session-II of CMCL-FAIMER Fellowship program 2016 held between 6th to 11th February 2016 at Christian Medical College, Ludhiana.  Ms. Priya Pauline Rego, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Assessing lexical breadth and depth in English speaking children aged between 5 .0 to 10.11 years using systematic analysis of language transcripts’ under the guidance of Dr. Sudhin Karuppali at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms. Zeba Raisa Hussain, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Development of Higher Order Theory of Mind Abilities in Binaural 3.0 – 5.0 years of Age’ under the guidance of

• Dr. Sudhin Karuppali at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference

(ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms. Nikitha Francis, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Cognitive Communication Disorders in Traumatic Brain Injury – A Single Case’ under the guidance of Ms. Vinitha George at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms. Nireeksha R. Anchan, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Assessing Spectral and Temporal Processing in Children in Comparison with adults using Spectral Discrimination and ripple noise perception’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms. Teenu Thomas, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Psychoacoustical measures in individuals with ccongenital visual impairment’ under the guidance of Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016

 Ms. Archana Rai, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Development of Norms for Timed Test of Swallowing in Indian Population from age group of 80years’ under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms. Ancy Varghese, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Effect of Modified Shakers exercise in Pharyngeal Contraction during Swallowing ’ under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar and Ms. Sonia Babu at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms. Dasmine Fraclita D’Souza, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Does Tongue Hold Maneuver Affect Respiratory Swallowing Coordination Evidences From Healthy Adults ’ under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms. Ananya A, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Contribution of Envelpoe and Temporal Fine Structure in Cue Combination’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms. Calida Freida Pinto, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Nasal Airflow Monitoring During Swallowing : Evidences for Respiratory Swallowing incoordination in Individuals with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease’ under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms.Pragya Tyagi, III BASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Influence of Fine Structure Dips in Interpretation of DP Gram’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms. Ayshath Mizaz, III BASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Do Student Clinician in Speech Language Pathology Predict Their Fundamental Frequency ?’ under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar and Ms. Sonia Babu at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms. Shibi Varghese, III BASLP, presented a paper titled ‘The Effect of Contral Ateral Noise on Speech Evoked Auditory Brainstem Response’ under the guidance of Mr. Mohan Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms. Anjali Jude, III BASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Effect of Stimulus Repetition Rate

• n Acoustic Change Complex’ under the guidance of Mr. Mohan Kumar at the Indian

Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Ms. Malavika A.A, Asst. Professor, presented two scientific papers titled ‘Feeding and Swallowing in Children With Down Syndrome’ and ‘How Hard is Your Hard Glottal Attack’ at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.

 Dr. Radish Kumar, Assoc. Professor, presented a scientific papers titled ‘“Voice mutation in the adolescents” at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Mr. Somashekara H.S, Asst. Professor, presented scientific papers titled ‘“Comparision between pre-arithmatical concepts and arithmetic skills in early primary schools in typically developing children” at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 48) held at Kokilaben Dhirbhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai between 5th and 7th February 2016.  Mr. Rajesh Ranjan presented a paper titled ‘Correlating conventional working memory task with variant everyday working memory task among young healthy adults’ at the Workshop on methods in cognitive science at silver jubilee 25th convention of national academy of psychology 2015-16 held at University of Allahabad on between 2nd to 5th February 2016. 2015  Mr. Rajesh Ranjan presented a paper titled ‘Association of blood group and fine structure distortion product otoacoustic emissions across age group’ at Audiology- International Master class Series 2015 (AIMS 2015) and Audiology Conference held at Kovalam, Trivandrum between 4th and 6th December 2015.  Dr. Jayashree Bhat presented the progress of the DST project ‘A cognitive communicative self-learning tool’ during the meet held at Mumbai on 22nd November 2015.  Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar presented a paper titled ‘Age related changes in cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials’ at the 1st world congress on ear and hearing Care conference held at India Habitat Center, New Delhi between 12th and 14th February,2015.  Ms. Anuradha Shastry, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Impact of Noise on Hearing

• f Individuals Working in the Temples A Preliminary Study’ under the guidance of Mr.

Rajesh Ranjan at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Mr. Livingston Sengolraj II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Effect of hemodialysis on temporal processing, spectral processing and speech perception in noise’ under the guidance of Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Dashika II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Auditory Spectral, Temporal And Cognitive Processing Deficits: A Consequence Of Aging On Speech Perception In Noise’ under guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal, between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Pashyanti II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Effect Of Aging On Co-Modulation Maskingrelease, Amplitude And Frequency Modulationdetection’ under the guidance of

• Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference

(ISHACON 47) held at Manipal, between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Amrin T.K, Intern, presented a paper titled ‘Contribution Of Selective Attention In Psychophysical Overshoot’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian

Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal, between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Thashmi, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Ocular Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential Testing Using Two Different Procedures Across Different Age Groups’ under the guidance of Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal, between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Linda Sara Babu, Intern, presented a paper titled ‘Association Of Efferent Suppression And Psychophysical Overshoot In Human Listeners’ under the guidance of

• Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference

(ISHACON 47) held at Manipal, between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Monica, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Relationship Between Phonological Processing And Auditory Processing In Children’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal, between 1st and 3rd January ,2015.  Ms. Delora Samantha Serrao, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Role Of Temporal Fine Structure In Cue Combination: A Model Based Analysis’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal, between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Nikitha BT, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Role Of Active Listening And Listening Effort in TEOAE’ under the guidance of Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal, between 1st and 3rd January ,2015.  Ms. Kavya, Intern, presented a paper titled ‘Association Between Vo2 Max And Distortion Product OAE’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal, between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Sameekasha Shetty, Intern, presented a paper titled ‘Does Post Nasal Drip Have An Effect On Voice??’ under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal, between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Sujitha R., Interns, presented a paper titled ‘Discrimination of Malayalam phonemes by Native and Nonnative Listeners of Malayalam’ under the guidance of Mr. Mohan Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal, between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Varsha Prabhu, III BASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Verification of Noise Reduction Rating in Indian Population OAE’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Larisa, III BASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Contralateral Suppression Of Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions For Various Noise’ under the guidance of Mr. Mohan Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Ayshath Sahana, III BASLP presented a paper titled ‘Binaural Interaction Component In Speech Abr With Its Effects On Age’ under the guidance of Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.

 Ms. Carol Melanie, III BASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Contribution of acoustic radiation for abnormal air bone gap at 4000Hz‘under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Dhanya K.M, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Degree Of Harmonic Organization In Healthy Aged Individuals ‘ under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Feby Sabu, Research Assistant, presented a paper titled ‘Degree Of Harmonic Organization In Healthy Aged Individuals’ under the guidance of Dr. Jayashree S.Bhat at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Feby Sabu, research Asistant, presented a paper titled ‘Does Radiation Therapy Swallow Up The Swallowing Abilities ?’ under the guidance of Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Sharon Mariam, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Insight Into Feeding Pattern In Normal Infants Between 0 To 6 Months A Preliminary Report’ under the guidance of

• Dr. Deepa N. at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47)

held at Manipal between between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Priyanka E.M, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Speed Of Swallowing In Healthy Aged Individuals: A New Screening Tool For Dysphagia, under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Anuradha Shastry, Asst Professor, presented a paper titled ‘Speech Intelligibility In Individuals With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease’ under the guidance of Dr. Jayashree S.Bhat at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Krupa Rajan, III BASLP presented a paper titled ‘Respiratory Swallowing Coordination In Individuals With Asthma’ under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Anuradha Shastry, II MASLP presented a paper titled ‘Does Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Impact the Voice-Related Quality of Life? under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Shuraga, III BASLP presented a paper titled ‘Do Singers Modulate Their Harmonics Differentially during Phonation and Singing? under the guidance of Dr. Radish Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Sonia Babu, II MASLP presented a paper titled ‘Dr. Sudhin Karuppali’ under the guidance of Lexical Density And Diversity In Written Genre: A Developmental Perspective In Adolescents at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Shrunga M.S, II MASLP presented a paper titled ‘Assessing age related changes on Twenty Questions Task’ under the guidance of Mr. Gagan Bajaj at the Indian Speech

and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Sreeshma R, Intern, presented a paper titled ‘Exploring Age Related Changes In Prospective Memory’ under the guidance of Mr. Gagam Bajaj at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Ridha Fathima , Intern, presented a paper titled ‘Evaluating the effect of age on Everyday Problem Solving abilities’ under the guidance of Mr. Gagan Bajaj at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Nayana P. Kumar, II MASLP, presented a paper titled ‘Correlating Conventional working memory tasks with variant everyday working memory tasks among young healthy’ under the guidance of Mr. Gagan Bajaj at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Pashyanti Nagendra, II MASLP presented a paper titled ‘Comprehensive Bedside Screening Tool For Adult Language Disorders’ under the guidance of Dr. Deepa N. at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Sruthy Varghese, Intern, presented a paper titled ‘Effect Of Stimulus Abstractness On Problem Solving Abilities In Healthy Young Adults’ under the guidance of Mr. Gagan Bajaj at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Nayana P Kumar presented a paper titled ‘Knowing Without Knowing: Effects Of Subconscious Priming On Word Retrieval’ under the guidance of Dr. Sudhin Karuppali at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Mubsira N, III BASLP presented a paper titled ‘Understanding the Cognitive Linguistic System of an Adolescent with Asperger Syndrome’ under the guidance of Dr. Sudhin Karuppali at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015.  Ms. Thashmi, II MASLP presented a paper titled ‘Does the Verbal Ability of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Influence the Mothers Interactive Role? Evidence from Using Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System (DPICS)’ under the guidance of

• Dr. Sudhin Karuppali at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference

(ISHACON 47) held at Manipal between 1st and 3rd January, 2015. 2014  Mr. Sudhin Karuppali, presented a paper titled ‘Understanding proverbial expressions in

adolescents between 10-15 years of age’ at the 1st TRI-ELE International Conference – “Toward Global English Horizons” which was held at Bangkok, Thailand in June, 2014.

 Ms. Delora Serrao, II MASLP, presented paper titled ‘Software to assess temporal fine structure sensitivity and working memory for the prescription of eclectroacoustic features

• f hearing aid’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi during the Innovation day held

at KMC Mangalore on 20th December, 2014.

 Ms. Nayana P Kumar, II MASLP, presented paper titled ‘A computer based measure of everyday working memory in adults’ under the guidance of Mr. Gagan Bajaj during the Innovation day held at KMC Mangalore on 20th December, 2014.  Ms. Nayana P Kumar, I year MASLP, presented paper titled ‘Communication related working memory deficits – Does the decline begin as early as fourth decade of life’ under the guidance of mr. Gagan Bajaj at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 46) held in Kochi, between 7th and 9th February ,2014.  Ms. Shrunga M.S, I year MASLP , presented paper titled ‘Semantic processing speed and semantic knowledge – Do age differences exist?’ under the guidance of Mr. Gagan Bajaj at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 46) Kochi, between 7th and 9th February ,2014.  Ms. Delora Serrao, I year MASLP, presented paper titled ‘Contribution of amplitude modulations for concurrent stream segregation: A probe through object related negativity’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 46) Kochi, between 7th and 9th February ,2014.  Ms. Harsha Haridas, I year MASLP, presented paper titled ‘‘Association of consonant identification with frequency following responses for harmonic complex and tonal sweeps’ at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 46) Kochi, between 7th and 9th February, 2014.  Mr. Thejaswi D, II year MASLP, presented paper titled ‘Does temporal coordination between onset of swallow & onset of apnea varying in healthy aged population’’ under the guidance of Dr. Radhish at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 46) Kochi, between 7th and 9th February, 2014.  Ms. Ketaki Vasant Phadke, II year MASLP, presented paper titled ‘Nonlinear dynamic analysis of voice in teachers with dysphonia’ under the guidance of Dr. Radhish at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 46) Kochi, between 7th and 9th February, 2014.  Ms. Ketaki Vasant Phadke, II year MASLP, presented paper titled ‘Video kymography : A new approach to portray the vocal fold function’ under the guidance of Dr. Deepa N. at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 46) Kochi, between 7th and 9th February, 2014.  Ms. Aimy Eldose, II year MASLP, presented paper titled ‘Role of fine structure & envelope in the perception of interaural time difference’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 46) Kochi, between 7th and 9th February, 2014.  Ms. Anuradha Shastry, II year MASLP, presented paper titled ‘Acoustic & Perceptual analysis of voice in individuals with COPD and ‘Acoustic & Perceptual correlates of voice in Indian Hindu Purohits’under the guidance of Dr. Radhish at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 46) Kochi, between 7th and 9th February, 2014.  Ms. Nimalka Maria Seqeura, II year MASLP, presented paper titled ‘Measuring VEMP using 2 different procedures’ under the guidance of Dr. Kaushalendra Kumar at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 46) Kochi, between 7th and 9th February, 2014.  Mr. Abin K.V, II year MASLP, presented paper titled ‘Associations of blood group and fine spectral changes in acoustic emissions’ under the guidance of Mr. Rajesh at the

Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 46) Kochi, between 7th and 9th February, 2014. 2013  Mr. Sudhin Karuppali, presented a paper titled ‘Assessment of Figurative Language in

children aged between 10–16 years: Using simile completion tasks’ at the UPALS ICL 2013

which was held at Penang, Malaysia in May, 2013.  Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat presented a paper titled “Effect of blood glucose levels on verbal fluency at the 26th International Academic Conference: Multidisciplinary Intellectual Perspectives - Intellect Base Consortium, held at Bangkok, Thailand between 14th and 16th March, 2013.  Remya. P. Nair presented a paper titled “Visual Word Recognition in Kannada in view of Dual Route Cascaded Model” at the 26th International Academic Conference: Multidisciplinary Intellectual Perspectives - Intellect Base Consortium, held at Bangkok, Thailand between 14th and 16th March, 2013.  Mr. Gagan Bajaj presented a paper titled “Association of self-report of hearing loss and Audiometric Thresholds in Adults – A Cross-Sectional Study” at the 26th International Academic Conference: Multidisciplinary Intellectual Perspectives - Intellect Base Consortium, held at Bangkok, Thailand between 14th and 16th March, 2013.  Mrs. Rashmi Ananth Pai presented a paper titled “Effect of body posture on Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials” on 2nd Singapore Rehabilitation Conference held at Singapore between 27th February and 1st March, 2013.  Ms. Priyanka Jayaram (Intern) presented a paper titled ‘Musical Training and perception

• f Speech in Spectral Gaps’ on 2nd Singapore Rehabilitation Conference held at

Singapore between 27th February and 1st March, 2013.  Mr. Ajit Kumar, II MASLP presented a paper titled ‘Effect of acute sleep deprivation on normal hearing individuals & ‘Effect of open and close eyes on VEMP’ on 2nd Singapore Rehabilitation Conference held at Singapore between 27th February and 1st March, 2013.  Mr. Arivudai Nambi, delivered a guest lecture on ‘Chirp ABR, at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association Conference (ISHACON), which was held at Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Mr. Sudhin Karuppali, presented a paper titled ‘Biological Motion Detection And Theory Of Mind Abilities In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders In Comparison With Typically Developing Children’ at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association Conference (ISHACON), which was held at Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Mr. Livingston Sengolraj presented a paper titled ‘Effect of musical training on spectral resolution, selective attention and speech perception in spectral gaps’, under the guidance

• f Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association Conference

(ISHACON), which was held at Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Priyanka J and Mr. Livingston Sengolraj presented a paper titled ‘Effect of musical training on speech perception in spectral gaps’, under the guidance of Mr. Muthuraj P and, Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association Conference (ISHACON), which was held at Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.

 Ms. Delora Serrao, Ms. Desma Dsouza and Mr. Anshul Arora presented a paper titled ‘Role of temporal fine structure sensitivity and working memory in speech perception in noise’, under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association Conference (ISHACON), which was held at Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Badarunisa Mohammad Basheer presented a paper titled ‘Acoustic information transfer in esophageal and trachea esophageal speech’, under the guidance of Mr. Muthuraj P at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association Conference (ISHACON), which was held at Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Gopika K K and Ms. Priyanka J presented a paper titled ‘Effect of musical training

• n encoding of amplitude modulated sweeps in auditory system’, under the guidance of
• Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association Conference

(ISHACON), which was held at Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Hiral Shah and Ms. Nikhitha M presented a paper titled ‘Can The Acoustic Change Complex Be Used To Determine The Behavioral Frequency Discrimination Threshold’ under the guidance of Mr. Mohan Kumar K at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Nikhitha M and Ms. Hiral presented a paper titled ‘Effect of binaural masking level difference on Speech evoked Auditory brainstem response’ under the guidance of Mr. Mohan Kumar Kalaiah at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Revathy R and Ms. Nikhitha M presented a paper titled ‘Effect of blood glucose level on verbal fluency’ under the guidance of Mr. Gagan Bajaj at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Sruthi M and Ms. Revathy presented a paper titled ‘Perception of emotional expressions with and without a social context’ under the guidance of Mr. Sudhin Karuppali at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Shazia Banu and Ms.Sithara Jahan presented a paper titled ‘Do gestures determine fluency of speech- A cross sectional experiment’ under the guidance of Mr. Gagan Bajaj at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Anjana Hoode and Ms. Pooja Sheth presented a paper titled ‘Auditory measures of Selective attention and working memory in children with learning disability and typically developing children’ under the guidance of Mr. Anshul A. and Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Dasmine Dsouza and Ms. Calida Pinto presented a paper titled ‘Dichotic listening and auditory stroop task in musicians and non-musicians’ under the guidance of Mr. Anshul A. and Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms.Calida Pinto and Dasmine D’souza presented a paper titled ‘Syntactic ambiguity resolution by dominant language users of English and Kannada’, under the guidance of

• Mr. Sudhin Karuppali and Dr. Jayashree S Bhat at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing

Association Conference (ISHACON), which was held at Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Anuradha Shastry presented a paper titled ‘Cepstral analysis of voice in singers and non-singers’ under the guidance of Radish Kumar B, and Dr. Jayashree S Bhat at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association Conference (ISHACON), which was held at Chennai between between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Mr. Thejaswi D presented a paper titled ‘Visuo-spatial orientation across gender: evidence from hand pointing and maze task’ under the guidance of Mr. Sudhin Karuppali and Dr. Jayashree S Bhat at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association Conference (ISHACON), which was held at Chennai between between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Mr. Thejaswi D presented a paper titled ‘Effect of tongue hold maneuver on pharyngeal contraction during swallowing’ under the guidance of Radish Kumar B, and Dr. Jayashree S Bhat at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association Conference (ISHACON), which was held at Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Linda Sara B and Ms. Amrin T. K presented a paper titled ‘Association of self report

• f hearing loss and audiometric thresholds in adults: A cross sectional study’ under the

guidance of Mr. Gagan Bajaj and Dr. Jayashree S Bhat at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Nikita D and Ms. Shrunga M.S presented a paper titled ‘Relation between auditory processing and phonological awareness among poor readers’ under the guidance of Mr. Mohan Kumar K and and Dr. Jayashree S Bhat at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Mr. Ajith kumar, Mr. Deepak raj, Mr. Anshul A presented a paper titled ‘The effect of acute sleep deprivation on temporal processing and frequency resolution in normal healthy adults’ under the guidance of Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar and Dr. Jayashree S Bhat at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Mr. Anshul A, Ms. Delora Serrao, Ms.Desma D’souza presented a paper titled ‘Acceptable noise levels & working memory capacity in individuals with hearing impairment & normal hearing’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Dessai Teja Deepak presented a paper titled ‘Ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials using different test stimuli’ under the guidance of Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar and

• Dr. Jayashree S Bhat at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference

(ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013.  Ms. Sharon Mathew and Ms. Sithara Jahan C S presented a paper titled ‘Active listening and its influence on auditory efferent activity’ under the guidance of Mr. Mohan Kumar K and Dr. Jayashree S Bhat at the 45th Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON) which was held in Chennai between 1st and 3rd February, 2013. 2012

 Mr. Sudhin Karuppali presented a poster titled ‘Mind reading: Designing a Novel Assessment Strategy to study the Visual Processing abilities in individuals with Autism using Remote Eye-Tracking Systems’, on the Innovation Day held at the Innovation Centre, MIT, Manipal on the 15th December, 2012.  Mr. MuthuRaj presented a poster titled ‘Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Indian Languages’ at the Innovation Day held at the Innovation Centre, MIT, Manipal on the 15th December, 2012.  Ms. Dessai Teja Deepak presented a paper titled ‘Comparison of Ocular Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials Elicited by Click and Short Duration Tone Burst Stimuli’, under the guidance of Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar and Dr. Jayashree S Bhat at the Indian Association of Bio Medical Scientists conference (IABMS), which was held at Nitte University, Mangalore between 1st and 3rd November, 2012.  Mr. Thejaswi D presented a paper titled ‘Proverb Recognition in typically developing children’, under the guidance of Mr. Sudhin Karuppali and Dr. Jayashree S Bhat at the Indian Association of Bio Medical Scientists conference (IABMS), which was held at Nitte University, Mangalore between 1st and 3rd November, 2012.  Mr. Radish Kumar presented a paper titled ‘Respiratory swallow co-ordination in geriatrics’ under the guidance of Dr. Jayashree. S. Bhat, at Karnataka Geriatric Association Conference (KARGERICON), which was held at T.M.A. Pai Convention Hall, Mangalore, between 8th and 9th September, 2012.  Mr. Kaushalendra Kumar presented a paper titled “Effect of Aging on Speech Evoked Auditory Brains-tem Response’ at the Karnataka Geriatric Association Conference (KARGERICON), which was held at T.M.A. Pai Convention Hall, Mangalore, between 8th and 9th September, 2012.  Mrs. Deepa. N presented a paper titled ‘Senescence Voice’ under the guidance of Dr.

• Jayashree. S. Bhat, at the Karnataka Geriatric Association Conference (KARGERICON),

which was held at T.M.A. Pai Convention Hall, Mangalore, between 8th and 9th September, 2012.  Mr. Sudhin Karuppali presented a paper titled “Understanding Idiomatic Expressions in children between 11 – 14 Years: A Developmental Study” at the International Conference

• n Asian Studies to be held in Negombo, Sri Lanka between 26th and 27th July, 2012.

 Mrs. Rashmi Ananth Pai presented a paper titled “Communication profiling in client with crossed aphasia: A case report” at “IBIA 9th World Congress on Brain Injury” held at Edinburgh, Scotland from 21st and 25th March, 2012.  Mr. Gagan Bajaj presented a paper titled “Disability oriented practices in communication rehabilitation - where do we stand?” in IARP 2012 conference organized by Indian association of rehabilitation professionals held at New Delhi between 17th and 20th March, 2012.  Nisha Krishnani (IIMASLP), Livingston Sengolraj (IIIBASLP) presented a paper titled “Between session test-retest reproducibility of brief-tone ASSR threshold” under the guidance Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 44) held in Hyderabad dated between 20th and 22nd January, 2012.  Payal D Mukhi and Nisha Krishnani (IIMASLP) presented a paper titled “Comparison of NAL-NL1 and camrest fitting procedures for initial fitting of multichannel hearing aids” under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association

conference (ISHACON 44) held in Hyderabad dated between 20th and 22nd January, 2012.  Livingston S, and Shrunga M.S (III BASLP) presented a paper titled “Cognitive estimation in healthy aged population” under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar and Dr. Jayashree S.Bhat at the National Conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHACON44) held in Hyderabad dated between 20th and 22nd January, 2012.  Desma D’Souza (IIIBASLP)presented a paper titled “Effect of orthographic neighborhood density on reading accuracy in Kannada language: does concreteness play a role?” under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar and Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat at the National Conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHACON44) held in Hyderabad dated between 20th and 22nd January, 2012.  Shrunga M.S, and Desma D’Souza (IIIBASLP)presented a paper titled “Effect of musical training on bottom-up and top-down processing: a dichotic listening study” under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi and Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat at the National Conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHACON44) held in Hyderabad dated between 20th and 22nd January, 2012.  Mr. Anshul and Payal D’Mukhi (IIMASLP)presented a paper titled “Effect of training on esophageal speech in normal individuals: implications for laryngectomee rehabilitation” under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar and Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat at the National conference of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHACON 44) held in Hyderabad dated between 20th and 22nd January ,2012.  Mr. Anshul(IIMASLP) and Priyanka Jayaram (III BASLP) presented a paper titled “Perception and acoustic information transfer in esophageal speech” under the guidance

• f Mr. Muthuraj, P and Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat at the National conference of the Indian

Speech and Hearing Association (ISHACON 44) held in Hyderabad dated between 20th and 22nd January ,2012.  Prathamesh Bailoor (II MASLP) presented a paper titled “The dual route cascaded model

• f visual word recognition and reading aloud in Kannada language” under the guidance
• f Ms. Remya Nair and Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat at the Indian Speech and Hearing

Association conference (ISHACON 44) held in Hyderabad dated between 20th and 22nd January, 2012.  Prathamesh Bailoor (II MASLP) presented a paper titled ‘ Lexical semantic organization: A tool for language proficiency in adults’ under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar and

• Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference

(ISHACON 44) held in Hyderabad dated between 20th and 22nd January ,2012.  Vibha Kanagokar and Sreya N.M (II MASLP) presented a paper titled “Speech motor control in children with downs syndrome: evidences from formant centralization ratio” under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar and Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 44) held in Hyderabad dated between 20th and 22nd January, 2012.  Dessai Teja Deepak (I MASLP) presented a paper titled ‘Test retest reliability of BC ASSR’ under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi and Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 44) held in Hyderabad dated between 20th and 22nd January, 2012.  Prakruthi Datta (I MASLP) presented a paper titled ‘Temporal coordination of swallowing in healthy aged population’ under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar and Dr.

Jayashree S. Bhat at the Indian Speech and Hearing Association conference (ISHACON 44) held in Hyderabad dated between 20th and 22nd January, 2012. 2011  Mr. Gagan Bajaj Presented a paper titled “Metaphonologial skills in Kannada speaking children with cochlear implant” at the 9th Conference of the Cochlearimplant Group of India (CIGICON) Lucknow which was held between 24th and 27th November, 2011.  Ms. Deepa N. presented a paper titled “An investigation into bilingual cognitive mechanism”at the 2nd International Conference on Behavioral, Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Bandos Island Resort, Maldives which was held between 25th and 26th November, 2011.  Mr. Sudhin Karuppali presented a paper titled “Understanding Actions and Intentions: An Insight into Theory of Mind”at the 2nd International Conference on Behavioral, Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Bandos Island Resort, Maldives which was held between 25th and26th November, 2011.  Ms. Remya Nair presented a paper titled “Cognitive representation in the brain: Evidences from semantic tasks”at the 2nd International Conference on Behavioral, Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Bandos Island Resort, Maldives which was held between 25th and 26th November, 2011.  Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar presented two papers titled “Effect of language experience on brainstem processing of speech sounds” and “Effect of aginig on binaural interaction component in speech ABR” respectively, at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Annual Convention 2011, which was held at San Diego, California from 17th and 19th November, 2011.  Dr. Jayashree S. Bhat presented a poster titled “Voice Restoration Following Laryngopharyngoesophagectomy and Gastric Pull Up Procedure: A Case Report” at Quadricentennial Cancer Conference on ‘Improving Outcomes in the Management of Head and Neck Cancer’ held at Manila, Philippines between 29th and 31st August, 2011.  Ms. Mili Mary Mathew Presented a poster titled “Management of Swallowing Problems in an Individual with Malignant Oral Carcinoma: An Indian Experience” at Quadricentennial Cancer Conference on ‘Improving Outcomes in the Management of Head and Neck Cancer’ held at Manila, Philippines between 29th to 31st August, 2011.  Dr. Radish Kumar Presented a poster titled “Management of Voice and Swallowing Disordrs Following Parapharyngeal Space Tunnor Exciion: A Case Report” at Quadricentennial Cancer Conference on ‘Improving Outcomes in the Management of Head and Neck Cancer’ held at Manila, Philippines between 29th and 31st August, 2011.  Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar Presented a paper titled “Contralateral masking effect on 40Hz and 80Hz auditory steady state response” at 7th SAARC ENT congress conference, which was held at Kathmandu (Nepal) between 25th and 27th May, 2011

 Mr. Rajesh Ranjan Presented a paper titled “Cognition and Speech Perception” at 7th SAARC ENT congress conference, which was held at Kathmandu (Nepal) between 25th and 27th May, 2011  Ms. Mili Mary Mathew presented a paper titled “Visual Processing in the Context of Cognitive Flexibility” in the 3rd International Conference on Signal Acquisition and Processing (ICSAP 2011) held at Singapore between 26th and 28th February, 2011.  Ms. Remya P.Nair presented a paper titled “Is Semantics represented in single area or multiple areas in our brain: Evidence from a Case Study”, in a conference on Interdisciplinary aspects on Semantics conducted by Department of Linguistics in Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, between 25th and 27th February, 2011.  Mr. Radish Kumar presented a paper titled “Semantic flexibility in children with Learning Disability”, in a conference on Interdisciplinary aspects on Semantics conducted by Department of Linguistics in Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, between 25th and 27th February, 2011.  Mr. Somashekara presented a paper titled “Lexical Semantic Organization in Monolinguals and Bilinguals using Free Association Paradigm ”, in a conference on Interdisciplinary aspects on Semantics conducted by Department of Linguistics in Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, between 25th and 27th February, 2011.  Ms. Savitha Shastry presented a paper titled “Cross Linguistic transfers and borrowing in Konkani – Kannada – English multilinguals” in a conference on Interdisciplinary aspects

• n Semantics conducted by Department of Linguistics in Aligarh Muslim University,

Aligarh, between 25th and 27th February, 2011.  Mr. Kuryakose Joseph presented the paper titled “Does Obesity cause precocious vocal mutation: Evaluating the critical weight hypothesis in the Indian population” under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January ,2011.  Mr. Kuryakose Joseph and Mr. Anshul Arora presented the paper titled “Acceptable noise levels for different environmental sounds” under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Ms. Suzanna Sajin and Ms. Anitta Susan Jacob presented the paper titled “Effect of training on perception of consonants through frequency lowering devices in high frequency simulated hearing loss” under the guidance of Dr. Ajith Kumar U and Mr. Sangamanatha at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Ms. Pearl Edna D’Costa and Mr. Manav Srivastava presented the paper titled “Effect of polarity on speech evoked auditory brainstem response” under the guidance of Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Mr. Vikas M D and Mr. Hassan P C presented the paper titled “Perception of Spectral Ripples and Speech in noise by Geriatric listeners” under the guidance of Mr. Arivudai Nambi at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.

 Mr. Vikas M D presented the paper titled “Perception of Speech in Music by middle aged adults” under the guidance of Mr. Sangamanatha at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Mr. Muthu Raj and Ms. Souparnya Gopi presented the paper titled “Voice Mutation in Indian population” under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Ms. Christina Jean Vivarthini presented the paper titled “Sub-cortical Processing of Native and Non-native speech sounds” under the guidance of Dr. Ajith Kumar, Mr. Kaushlendra Kumar and Mr. Arivudai Nambi at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Ms. Christina Jean Vivarthini presented the paper titled “Understanding Actions and Intensions: An insight into Theory of Mind” under the guidance of Mr. Sudhin Karuppalli at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Mr. Jinu Jacob and Ms. Asela Chandrasekara presented the paper titled “Formant Characteristics of Laughter in Children” under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Mr. Jinu Jacob and Mr. Muthu Raj presented the paper titled “Effect of Caffeine in DPOAE Microstructure” under the guidance of Dr. Ajith Kumar at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Ms. Anitta Susan Jacob presented a paper titled “Effect of Pregnancy on Voice: A cross- sectional study” under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Ms. Nithya K presented a paper titled “Effect of Priming on Morphological Analysis using Fragment Completion Task in bi-literate child readers” under the guidance of Mr. Somashekara H S at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Mr. Manav Srivastava and Mr. Vikas M D presented a paper titled “Performance Perceptual Task in Kannada” under the guidance of Dr. Ajith Kumar and Mr. Arivudai Nambi at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Ms. Shahika Fahim presented a paper titled “A Dichotic Listening Study of Executive and Non-executive attention in middle aged adults” under the guidance of Mr. Sangamanatha at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Ms. Amrita Bhandarkar presented a paper titled “Swallowing Capacity in healthy aged individuals: A new Screening Tool for Diagnosis” under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Ms. Marwa Mohammed Iqbal presented a paper titled “Phonological Awareness in Kannada-English Bi-literate children” under the guidance of Mr. Somashekara H S at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.

 Mr. Aju Abraham presented a paper titled “Management of Functional Dysphagia: A case report” under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.  Ms. Delora Serrao and Ms. Shrunga M S presented a paper titled “Seeing asn Action is like Doing an Action: Testing the Hypothesis of Direct and Mediated Mapping of perception to Action” under the guidance of Mr. Sudhin Karuppali at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January,2011.  Ms. Desma D’Souza presented a paper titled “Second Formant Transition as an Index for Speech Motor Control: Evidences from Geriatrics” under the guidance of Mr. Radish Kumar and Ms. Deepa Devadiga at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January ,2011.  Ms. Nikita D. Khokhani presented a paper titled “Patters of Code Switching in Children” under the guidance of Ms. Mili Mary Mathew at 43rd ISHA CON held at Kolkata between 21st and 23rd January, 2011.