Associate Professor & Research Coordinator
Mr. Suresh Thontadarya, has over 25 years of work experience. He has worked abroad much of his career. He was responsible for initiating newborn hearing screening, cochlear implant program and vestibular assessment and rehabilitation in the late 1990s. He has contributed to a chapter in a monograph on vestibular disorders published by ISHA in 2018. He serves as a chairperson of BOE (PG) of Bangalore University. He has guided more than 30 Masters Dissertations and has many publications in the area of Audiology.
Associate Professor (Research)
Bhuvaneswari. B holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Mysore. She had earlier completed her post graduation in Speech Language Pathology from All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore and MPhil in Learning Disabilities from the University of Mysore. She has research interest in the areas of Language and Literacy, and has worked on Emergent Literacy for her doctoral thesis. Her publications are in the area of reading, writing and emergent literacy in Indian languages. She has contributed a chapter on Tamil to a book on South East Asian Psycholinguistics.
Assistant Professor (Research)
Ms. Srividya is an alumnus of Dr. SRCISH, having completed UG and PG programs there. She is now pursuing PhD in the department. Her area of interest is acoustic correlates of speech production among implanted hearing impaired children and their association to their speech perception. She is also active in ISHA on academic activities, hosting a series of webinars on current perspectives in audiology. She was also a part of the team responsible for the scientific programme of 51st ISHACON, held in Bangalore, 2019. She has many publications in the area of speech perception and production. Her paper on speech perception and speech acoustic analysis in children with cochlear implants has been accepted fro ASHA convention 2019.
Project Officer and assistant Professor
Project Officer and Clinical Supervisor
Biostatistician
Ms. Praveena is a postgraduate in statistics from University of Kerala, Karyavattom, campus, Kerala. Her skills include SPSS, R statistics and Python. She is well versed in statistical analysis both quantitative and qualitative methods and procedures.