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ACTIVITIES
Professional voice users constitute an ever-increasing segment
of the clinical population in a voice clinic and their need
for expert advice has created a new interest in understanding
the use and misuse of human voice. A need to open professional
voice care center has long been felt in the department. A
step has been put forward in this aspect by starting a full-fledged
"Professional Voice Care Center". Sri S. K. Naik,
Secretary, Min. of Health & Family Welfare, GOI. inaugurated
the Professional Voice Care Center on 13.11.2002. The center
is dedicated to provide special services for professional
voice users: singers, politicians, actors and teachers. The
center caters to the advancement of management procedures
of voice. It intends to conduct intensive evaluation and provide
treatment for certain specified clinical groups like that
of professional voice users, who provide exciting challenges
and a special responsibilities to vocalogists. It also has
a laboratory equipped with state-of-the-art instruments required
for evaluation and treatment of voice disorders.
The department has been involved in forensic voice identification.
For the first time in the history of India, Ms Yeshoda, Lecturer
of the department attended the City civil Court, Bangalore
as an expert for testifying "Speaker verification: report
on 22-3-2003.
The major activities of the department are as follows:
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Teaching and training
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B.
Sc (Sp & Hg)
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M.
Sc (Speech-Language Pathology)
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M.
Sc (Sp & Hg)
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Short-term
training courses
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Refresher
courses
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Clinical services
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Diagnostics
& Rehabilitation
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Professional
voice care
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Auditory
integration therapy for children with autism
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Pre-school
training
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Prevention
of communication disorders
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Research
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Projects
funded by AIISH Research Fund
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Projects
funded by external agencies
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Guiding
doctoral students
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Guiding
master's dissertation
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Public education
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Orientation
programs on voice care
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Orientation
programs on communication disorders
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PHC
doctors program
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Camps
and screening
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Developing
public education pamphlets
RESEARCH
A. Projects
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Title
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Funding Agency |
1. |
Perception of prosody in brain damaged
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DST
New Delhi |
2. |
Differential diagnosis of normal non-fluency and stuttering
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ICMR
New Delhi |
3. |
Speech rhythm in Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages
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AIISH |
4. |
Base of articulation in Indian languages
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AIISH |
5. |
Evolution of voices in species
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AIISH |
6. |
Differential diagnosis of laryngeal disorders
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AIISH |
B. Theses
Sl. No. |
Title
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Guide |
1. |
Perception of prosody in patients with brain damage
Ms. H. Rohini
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Dr. S. R. Savithri |
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Some perceptual and acoustic correlates of stuttering - A pre-post therapy comparison
Mr. M. Santhosh
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Dr. S. R. Savithri |
3. |
Some prosodic correlates of stuttering – A pre-post therapy comparison
Ms. T. Ananthi
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Dr. S. R. Savithri |
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An investigation into phonological difficulty and phonological encoding process in children who stutter
Mr. B. T. Arun Kumar
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Dr. M. Jayaram |
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Importance of some spectral and temporal measures for speaker identification
Ms. K. Yeshoda
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Dr. M. Jayaram |
6. |
Acquisition of biliteracy in children
Ms. Jayashree Shanbal
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Dr. K. S. Prema |
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