Dr. SUNIL KUMAR. RAVI,

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1 Curriculum Vitae Dr. SUNIL KUMAR. RAVI, M.Sc (SLP), Ph.D (Speech Language Pathology) Associate Professor & Principal, Naseema Institute of Speech & Hearing, Bangalore, India. Tel: PROFESSIONAL PROFILE 1. Working as Associate Professor & Principal at Naseema Institute of Speech and Hearing, Bangalore from August, Faculty Consultant for developing curriculum for Bachelor of Health Science (Majors in Speech & Hearing) at Gulf Medical University, Ajman (as per ASHA standards) during April, May, & October, Guest Faculty at Department of Psychology, University of Mysore, Mysore for M.Phil in Learning Disability Course. 4. Expert Committee member (Speech Language Pathology) in Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) National Task Force (NTF) project titled Development and Validation of a Comprehensive Clinical and Neuropsychological Test Battery for use in the Indian context for patients with Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI)". 5. Ph.D Thesis title: An Event Related Brain Potential Study of Language Processing in Kannada English Bilingual Aphasics (University of Mysore, Mysore). AWARDS/ FELLOWSHIPS Received Foreign Travel Grant from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Human Resource Development Group, Government of India, New Delhi for attending and presenting three research papers at International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics, held at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, during 15 th and 16 th of May, (Ref no: TG/6661/11-HRD dated ) Received Junior Research Fellowship for pursuing Ph.D in Speech Language Pathology program from All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore for a period of three years.

2 Received best paper award in National Conference on Neurogenic Communication Disorders in Adults held at Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad in December, Received Best poster award in Language at 5 th TAN ISHA Conference held at Kanyakumari on 3 rd & 4 th, October, Received second best oral presentation award in Language at 5 th TAN ISHA Conference held at Kanyakumari on 3 rd & 4 th, October, Received best paper award at 6 th KSB ISHA Conference held on 07 th, September, 2013 at Kannur, Kerala. Co-chaired two scientific sessions on Language at 46 th Annual Indian Speech & Hearing Conference held at Cochin during 7 th -9 th, February, Chaired Scientific sessions on Language (Oral & Poster sessions) at 47 th Annual Indian Speech and Hearing Convention held at Manipal University, Manipal during 01 st 03 rd, January, Member of Reviewer committee of Scientific papers of 46 th, 47 th & 48 th Annual Indian Speech and Hearing Conventions. EDUCATION Ph.D (Speech Language Pathology): All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, University of Mysore, Mysore Master of Science (Speech Language Pathology), University of Mysore, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, India. Dissertation: Dementia Assessment Battery Kannada Percentage: 66% Clinical Internship, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, India. SPECIALIZATION: Speech and Hearing Grade: A+ (above 85%) Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing), University of Mysore, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, Karnataka, India

3 AFFILIATION TO ACADEMIC BODIES Member of Board of Studies (BOS) (BASLP) Bangalore University Member of Board of Studies (BOS) (MASLP) Bangalore University Board of Examiner BASLP (Bangalore University) Board of Examiner MASLP (Bangalore University) Member of Board of Studies (BOS) (BASLP) VSK University, Ballari Member of Board of Studies (BOS) (BASLP) Holy Cross College (Autonomous), Trichy. ACADEMIC/ TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1. August, 2013 Present: Associate Professor & Principal, Naseema Institute of Speech & Hearing, Bangalore. 2. September, 2013 Present: Guest Faculty at Department of Psychology, University of Mysore, Mysore for M.Phil in Learning Disability Course. 3. August, 2010 to August, 2013: Junior Research Fellow at Dept. of Speech Language Pathology, All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, Mysore, India for pursuing Ph.D in Speech Language Pathology. 4. July, 2009 to July, Research Officer, Department of Speech Language Pathology, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore. Performed Research and academic work on the project entitled Development and Standardization of Boston Naming Test (BNT) on Bilinguals (Kannada English & Telugu English), funded by AIISH Research Fund (ARF), AIISH, Mysore. Clinical Supervision of Child language disorders, Practical classes for 3 rd year BASLP students. CLINICAL INTERNSHIP Awarded a grade of A+ (above 85%) during clinical internship by All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, University of Mysore, Mysore.

4 MASLP DISSERTATIONS GUIDANCE 1. Effect of Radiation therapy on speech and swallowing functions in Oral cancer patients (Rayona Varghese, 2015) (Submitted to Bangalore University). 2. Dissociation of noun and verb naming in individuals with Alzheimer s type of dementia (Chithira, 2015) (Submitted to Bangalore University). 3. Narration skills in native and immigrant Malayalam speaking children (Preeethi, 2015) (Submitted to Bangalore University). 4. Adaptation & Validation of Mini Addenbrooke s Cognitive Examination in Tamil. (Jyotsna, 2015) (Submitted to Bangalore University). 5. Effect of working memory deficits on syntactic comprehension in individuals with dementia (Akhila, 2015) (Submitted to Bangalore University). 6. Working Memory Abilities in Malayalam Speaking Individuals with Broca s Aphasia (Faisal. P, 2014) (Submitted to Bangalore University). 7. Cognitive Deficits in Malayalam Speaking Persons with Broca s Aphasia (Jabir. S. 2014) (Submitted to Bangalore University). INVITED GUEST LECTURES 1. Guest speaker at National Conference on Neurogenic Communication Disorders in Adults at Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad from 11 th 13 th, December, Delivered a lecture on Language Deficits in Traumatic Brain Injury & Right Hemisphere Damage. 2. Guest Speaker at National Seminar on Assessment of Neurogenic Communication Disorders at Dr. S. R. Chandrashekar Institute of Speech and Hearing, Bangalore from 21 st to 23 rd, August, Delivered a lecture on Clinical Co-relates in assessment of bilingual aphasia. 3. Guest Speaker at National Seminar on Assessment of Neurogenic Communication Disorders at Dr. S. R. Chandrashekar Institute of Speech and Hearing, Bangalore from 21 st to 23 rd, August, Delivered a lecture on Clinical Neurological correlates & Assessment protocols of Apraxia of Speech. 4. Resource Person at Workshop on Child and Adult Language Disorders at Department of Speech and Hearing, Holy Cross College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India on

5 5. Resource Person at Workshop on Basic Statistics and Research Methods for Speech and Hearing at Department of Speech and Hearing, Holy Cross College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India on Guest speaker at Aphentia 2013 held at Manipal College of Allied Health Sciences (MCOAHS), Manipal University, Manipal on 12 th April, Delivered a lecture on Applications of Event Related Potentials in Assessment and Management of Aphasia & Dementia. 7. Guest Speaker at National Conference on Health Promotion held at Bethel Medical Mission & Hosmat Hospital Education Institute, Bangalore, India on Delivered a lecture on Importance of Speech Therapy in Multidisciplinary Approach in Rehabilitation Science. 8. Resource person at International Workshop on Audiology and Rehabilitation held at Department of Rehabilitation Science, Holy Cross College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India on to PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 1. Shyamala. K. C. & Sunil Kumar. R. (2010). Bilingual Aphasia Proceedings of International Symposium of Bilingual Aphasia. All India Institute of Speech and Hearing publications, Mysore. (Editorial Assistant). BOOK CHAPTERS 1. Vishnu, K. K., Sunilkumar, R., Bhat, S., & Shyamala, K. C. (2014). Fast mapping of novel words in multilingual context. Winskel, H., & Padakannaya, P., (Eds). South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. RESEARCH PAPERS 1. Sunil Kumar, Ravi., & Shyamala. K. Chengappa (2015). Sentence Processing in High proficient Kannada English bilinguals: A reaction time study. International Journal of Multilingualism,

6 2. Sunil Kumar. R., Shyamala. K.C. (2014). Reading comprehension of sentences in Kannada-English bilingual individuals with Aphasia. International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, Vol. 3(1), pp (ISSN: ) 3. Sunil Kumar. R., Shyamala. K. C., Vijayetha. S., & Gnanavel. K. (2015). Development of Boston Naming Test in Telugu: Performance of typical individuals and individuals with aphasia. (JAIISH, Vol. 32, 2013). 4. Sunil Kumar. R., Shyamala. K. C. & Vijay Kumar. N. (2013). An ERP study of semantic processing in Kannada English typical bilingual individuals A pilot study. Language in India ( Vol. 13, No. 4, Ravi, S., Chengappa, S., Narne V. (2012). An Event Related Brain Potentials (ERP) study of Syntactic processing in Kannada-English Bilinguals with and without aphasia. Proceedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 61, 201. (ISSN: ) 6. Chengappa, S., Ravi, S., Vijayetha, S. (2012). Preliminary norms of Boston Naming test in Kannada-English Typical Bilinguals and Bilingual Aphasics. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 61, Swapna, S., Shyamala. K. C., Sunil Kumar. R., & Achamma, B. (2012). Agraphia and Anomia in bilingual individual with left temporal lobe lesion A case report. Online journal Vol. 12 (9). ISSN Shilpahsree. P., Yashaswini, L., Sunil Kumar, R., & Sangeetha. M. (2011). Electroglottographic analysis in individuals with chronic laryngitis during speech task. Journal of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, vol (ISSN X). 9. Sunil, K. R., & Shyamala. K. C. (2010). Dementia Assessment Battery Kannada. Student Research at AIISH, Vol. IX, Part B- Speech Language Pathology Sunil Kumar. R., Gnanavel. K., Vishnu. K. K. & Shyamala. K. C. (2010). Action Naming in Bilingual (Kannada English) Aphasics: Implications to Models of Lexical Organization. Published in Bilingual Aphasia Proceedings of International Symposium of Bilingual Aphasia. All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore. 11. Sunil Kumar, R. & Shyamala, K. C. (2010). Cross Language variations in linguistic deficits in individuals with Dementia of Alzheimer s Type. Published in Proceedings of Third Student s Conference on Linguistics in India (SCONLI 3), Parimal Publishers, New Delhi.

7 12. Sunil Kumar, R., Carmel. J. & Shyamala. K. C. (2008). Non-word repetition skills in bilingual (Kannada English) dyslexic children. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics. 1, pp Sunil Kumar, R., Carmel. J. R. & Shyamala. K. C. (February, 2008). Linguistic Profile in multi infarct dementia a case study. Language in India, Vol. 8 (2). ISSN Sunil Kumar. R., Shyamala. K. C. & Carmel. J. (December, 2007). Acquired dyslexias in Kannada speaking adults with Right hemisphere damage. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, 10 (4), pp (ISSN ) Sunil Kumar, R., Shilpashri, H. N., & Shyamala. K. C. (June, 2007). Orthographic and reading errors in Kannada speaking normal children and in children with learning disability. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 36 (2), pp CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1. Bikas, D., Bishwajit, K., Krupa, S. G., & Sunil Kumar. R. (2014). Rate of speaking & reading of adult Nepali speakers. Proceedings of National Symposium on Acoustics (Acoustics 2014), All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, Mysore. INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS 1. Sunil Kumar. R, Chithira. S, Vandana. V. P. (2015). Noun and Verb processing in Malayalam Individuals with Dementia. Paper presented at 9 th Asia Pacific Conference of Speech, Language and Hearing held at Guangzhou, CHINA between 09 th 11 th, October, Sunil Kumar. R, Rayona Varghese, Sajit Babu, Aneeth M V. (2015). Effect of Glossectomy on Swallowing functions in Malayalam Speaking individuals. Paper presented at 9 th Asia Pacific Conference of Speech, Language and Hearing held at Guangzhou, CHINA between 09 th 11 th, October, Sunil Kumar. R, Jyotsna, Sonal C. (2015). Adaptation & Standardization of Mini Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (M-ACE) in Tamil Language. Paper presented

8 at 9 th Asia Pacific Conference of Speech, Language and Hearing held at Guangzhou, CHINA between 09 th 11 th, October, Sunil Kumar. R., Vijay Kumar. N., Shyamala. K. C. (2012). An event related brain potentials study of semantic processing in Kannada English bilingual individuals. Paper presented at International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics held at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong on 15 th 16 th, May, Sri Pallavi, M., Shylaja. K., Sunil Kumar. R., Shyamala. K. C. (2012). Confrontation naming and generative naming performance in bilingual persons with aphasia and dementia: a preliminary study. Paper presented at International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics held at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong on 15 th 16 th, May, Kavita, B., Vishnu, N., Shyamala. K. C., Sunil Kumar. R. (2012). Antonyms and translation: A comparative study in multilinguals. Poster presented at International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics held at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong on 15 th 16 th, May, NATIONAL 1. Ann Leethu Thomas, Manasa, Swetha. G, & Sunil Kumar. R. (2016). Effectiveness of Holistic Rehabilitation in Aphasia. Paper presented at Joint Conference of Indian Federation of Neurorehabilitation & Neurorehabilitation section of Indian Academy of Neurology, held at NIMHANS, Bangalore on 01 st to 03 rd April, Ann Leethu Thomas, Manasa, Neema, & Sunil Kumar. R. (2015). Effect of SFA treatment on recovery from Aphasia following Arteriovenous Malformation A Case study. Paper presented at National Conference on Neurogenic Communication Disorders in Adults held at Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad on 11 th 13 th, December, Shalini Shaji, Neethu Rajiv, Raghavendra Prasad, Krupa Saira George, & Sunil Kumar. R (2015). Effect of visual and auditory attention tasks on efferent auditory system a distortion product otoacoustic emission study. Paper presented at International

9 Conference: Newborn hearing screening with otoacoustic emissions held at National Institute of Speech and Hearing, Trivandrum, on 4 th 6 th, December, Aruna, Anjumol, Deboshree, S., Divya P, Sunil Kumar. R. (2015). Development of Action Naming Test in Tamil: an adaptation of ANT in English. Paper presented at 5 th Annual Conference of Tamil Nadu State Branch of ISHA held at Kanyakumari on 3 rd & 4 th, October, Deboshree, S., Aruna, Anjumol, Krupa Saira George, Sunil Kumar. R. (2015). Working memory abilities in Malayalam speaking individuals with dementia and typical individuals. Paper presented at 5 th Annual Conference of Tamil Nadu State Branch of ISHA held at Kanyakumari on 3 rd & 4 th, October, Jaslia Salam, Rashmi Ranjan, Suneeti Sahu, Rose Mary. C., Sunil Kumar. R (2015). Lexical Processing in Multilinguals A Reaction Time Study. Paper presented at 5 th Annual Conference of Tamil Nadu State Branch of ISHA held at Kanyakumari on 3 rd & 4 th, October, Manasa. C., Ms. Ann Leethu Thomas, Divya. P., Sunil Kumar. R. (2015). Effect of Aging on Immediate Sentence Recall Abilities. Paper presented at 5 th Annual Conference of Tamil Nadu State Branch of ISHA held at Kanyakumari on 3 rd & 4 th, October, Sunil Kumar. Ravi, Rose Mary, Preethi Marin Thomas. (2015). Comparison of Narrative Abilities between Immigrant & Non-Immigrant Malayalam-English Bilingual Children. Paper presented at 5 th Annual Conference of Tamil Nadu State Branch of ISHA held at Kanyakumari on 3 rd & 4 th, October, Shalini. S, Neethu. R, Krupa Saira George, Sunil Kumar. R (2015). Effect of Aging on Phonological and Visuospatial Working Memory. Paper presented at 5 th Annual Conference of Tamil Nadu State Branch of ISHA held at Kanyakumari on 3 rd & 4 th, October, Sunil Kumar. R, Chithira. S, Vandana. V. P. (2015). Adaptation and Validation of Action Naming Test (ANT) in Malayalam. Paper presented at 8 th Annual Conference of Kerala State Branch of ISHA held at Sulthan Bathery during 12 th to 13 th September, Sunil Kumar. R, Rayona Varghese, Sajit Babu, Aneeth M V. (2015). Effect of Glossectomy on Speech intelligibility and articulation in Individuals with Oral Cancer.

10 Paper presented at 8 th Annual Conference of Kerala State Branch of ISHA held at Sulthan Bathery during 12 th to 13 th September, Anjumol, Aruna, Deboshree, S., Krupa Saira George, Sunil Kumar. R. (2015). Lexical Processing in Malayalam English Bilinguals: A Cross Linguistic Priming Study. Paper presented at 8 th Annual Conference of Kerala State Branch of ISHA held at Sulthan Bathery during 12 th to 13 th September, Krupa, S G, Jabir, M, & Sunil Kumar. R. (2015). Cognitive deficits in persons with Broca s aphasia. Paper presented at 7 th Karnataka State Science Academy Conference held at Oxford College, Bangalore on 5 th & 6 th, February, Bishwajit, K., Bikas, D., Krupa, S. G., Lidiya, V., Sunil Kumar. R. (2015). Acoustic characteristics of vowels in Nepali. Paper presented at 7 th Karnataka State Science Academy Conference held at Oxford College, Bangalore on 5 th & 6 th, February, Sunil Kumar. R, & Medha Hegde. (2015). Working memory deficits in individuals with Broca s aphasia. Paper presented at 47 th Annual Convention of Indian Speech and Hearing Association held at Manipal University, Manipal on 01 st -3 rd January, Bikas, D., Bishwajit, K., Krupa, S. G., & Sunil Kumar. R. (2014). Rate of speaking & reading of adult Nepali speakers. Paper presented at National Symposium on Acoustics (Acoustics 2014) held at All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, Mysore between 12 th 14 th, November, Akhila. K., Sitara. S., & Sunil Kumar. R. (2014). Effect of Proficiency levels on Syntactic Comprehension of Sentences. Paper presented at 8 th Students Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-08) held at Department of Linguistics, University of Kashmir, Srinagar on 24 th 26 th, March, Shareef, M. J., & Sunil Kumar. R. (2014). Disfluencies in and year old typical Malayalam-English Bilingual Children. Paper presented at 8 th Students Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-08) held at Department of Linguistics, University of Kashmir, Srinagar on 24 th 26 th, March, Sunil Kumar. R. & Shyamala. K. C. (2013). Sentence Comprehension in Kannada- English Bilingual Individuals with Aphasia. Paper presented at 6 th KSB ISHA Conference on 07 th, September, 2013 at Kannur, Kerala.

11 20. Sarath. P. V., Jobin Thomas., Medha. H., Sunil Kumar. R. (2013). Working memory abilities in Malayalam-English bilinguals. Paper presented at 6 th KSB ISHA Conference on 07 th, September, 2013 at Kannur, Kerala. 21. Jabir. S., Faisal, P., Durai. P., Lidiya. V., Sunil Kumar. R. (2013). Disfluencies in and year old typical Malayalam speaking children. Paper presented at 6 th KSB ISHA Conference on 07 th, September, 2013 at Kannur, Kerala. (Received best paper award) 22. Sunil Kumar. R., Gnanavel. K., Vishnu. K. K. & Shyamala. K. C. (2010). Action Naming in Bilingual (Kannada English) Aphasics: Implications to Models of Lexical Organization. Paper presented at International Symposium on Bilingual Aphasia held at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore on 4 th 5 th, January Sri Pallavi. M., Anjana., Shylaja. K., Sunil Kumar. R., & Shyamala. K. C. (2010). Confrontation naming and generative naming in bilingual persons with Aphasia and Dementia. Paper presented at International Symposium on Bilingual Aphasia held at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore on 4 th 5 th, January, Sunil Kumar, R. & Shyamala, K. C. (2009). Cross Language variations in linguistic deficits in individuals with Dementia of Alzheimer s Type. Paper presented at Third Student s Conference on Linguistics in India (SCONLI 3), held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from 19 th to 21 st February, Sunil Kumar, R., Carmel. J. R. & Shyamala. K. C. (June, 2007). Linguistic Profile in multi infarct dementia a case study. Paper presented at 35 th All India Conference on Dravidian Linguistics, held at Mysore University, Mysore, INDIA. 26. Sunil Kumar, R., Carmel, J. & Shyamala. K. C. (January, 2007). Comparison of nonword repetition skills in bilingual (Kannada - English) dyslexics and normal children. Paper presented at the 39 th Annual Conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association. Calicut, India. 27. Sunil Kumar, R., Carmel, J. & Shyamala. K. C. (January, 2007). Acquired Dyslexias in Right Hemisphere Damaged Individuals. Paper presented at the 39 th Annual Conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association. Calicut, India.

12 28. Sunil Kumar, R. & Shyamala, K. C. (January, 2006). Cognitive Linguistic Impairments in Right Hemisphere Damaged Individuals. Paper presented at the 38 th Annual Conference of the Indian speech and Hearing Association held at Ahmadabad, India. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 1. International Affiliate Membership of American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) 2. Member of World Stroke Organization, Switzerland. 3. Life member of Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA), Membership No: L Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) Registration No: A17055 (registered as an Audiologist and Speech Pathologist). 5. Life member of Laryngology and Voice Association (LVA) L Life member of Linguistic Society of India Membership No: 15/ Life member of Indian Speech & Hearing Association Kerala state branch. L-139. SHORT-TERM COURSES ATTENDED 1. Course on Cognitive Neurology, Participated in the Teaching Course in Cognitive Neurology conducted on 13 th 14 th, December, 2010 by Department of Neurology, Nizam s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, in association with World Federation of Neurology RGACD, and Alzheimer s and Related Disorders Society of India, Hyderabad Deccan Chapter. 2. Course on COGNITIVE NEUROLOGY, Participated in the III TEACHING COURSE IN COGNITIVE NEUROLOGY conducted on 05 th 07 th, April, 2013 by Department of Neurology, Manipal Hospitals, Bangalore.

13 CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOPS ATTENDED 1) 9 th Asia Pacific Conference of Speech, Language and Hearing held at Guangzhou, CHINA between 09th 11th, October, ) Joint Conference of Indian Federation of Neurorehabilitation & Neurorehabilitation section of Indian Academy of Neurology, held at NIMHANS, Bangalore on 01st to 03rd April, ) National Conference on Neurogenic Communication Disorders in Adults held at Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad on 11th 13th, December, (Resource Person) 4) Attended three day workshop on Phonetic Transcription for Speech Language Pathologists (PTSLP) held at Dept. of Linguistics, Osmania University, Hyderabad during 20th-22nd November, ) Attended National workshop on Recent Advances in Electroacoustic Measurements held at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore on 24 th & 25 th, September, ) Attended 6 th Annual ISHA, Kerala State Branch Conference held at Kannur, Kerala on 07 th, September, ) Attended National seminar on recent advances in voice care organized by Dept. of SLP, AIISH, Mysore on 18 th & 19 th, April, ) Attended Seminar on Rehabilitation of Oral Cancer organized by Dept. of SLP, AIISH, Mysore on ) Attended seminar Unravelling the mysteries of cognitive neuropsychological assessment & management in Dementia: Untangling the tangled grays & whites organized by Department of Clinical Services, AIISH, Mysore on ) Attended National seminar on Non-aphasic Cognitive-communication disorders: Cutting edge clinical applications organized by Dept. of SLP, AIISH, Mysore, on ) Attended Workshop on Language and Neurobiology organized by Dept. of SLS on

14 12) National workshop on management of feeding skills in children with developmental disorders organized by Dept. of SLP, AIISH, Mysore on and ) Seminar on Yoga and Music for management of Autism Spectrum Disorders organized by Department of Speech Language Pathology, AIISH, Mysore on ) Attended International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics held at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong on and ) Attended Workshop on Sign Augmented Speech organized by AAC Unit, Dept. of SLP, AIISH, Mysore on ) Seminar on Rights and acts for persons with disability, held at Department of Clinical Services, AIISH, Mysore on 5th, December, ) Seminar on Acquired Brain Injury in children and adolescents held at Department of SLP, AIISH, Mysore on ) Seminar on Intervention of Autism Spectrum Disorders, held at Department of Speech Language Pathology, AIISH, Mysore on 12 th, May, ) International Symposium on Bilingual Aphasia held at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, India on 4 th & 5 th, January, ) Third Student s Conference on Linguistics in India held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on 19 th 21 st, February, ) Workshop on Child Language Disorders held at Department of Speech Language Pathology, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore on 17 th, December, ) National workshop on Voice: Assessment and Management organized by Department of Speech Language Sciences, AIISH, Mysore on 14 th & 15 th, February, ) National Seminar on Clinical Linguistics in Speech Language Pathology held at Department of Speech Language Pathology, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore on 18 th, January, ) 35 th All India Conference on Dravidian Languages held at Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies, University of Mysore, Mysore, on 21 st 23 rd, June, ) 39 th Annual Conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association held at Calicut, Kerala, on 19 th 21 st, January ) Workshop on Sensory Integration Training held at Department of Clinical Services, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore on 16 th & 17 th, October, 2006.

15 27) 38 th Annual Conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association held at Ahmedabad, Gujarat on 3 rd -5 th, February ) 6 th International Conference on South Asian Languages (ICOSAL-6) held at Hyderabad, on 5 th to 8 th, January ) 36 th Annual Conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association held at Mysore on th, January PUBLIC LECTURES Delivered a lecture for various professionals and general public on Communication Disorders in Psychiatric Conditions at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, as part of Monthly Public Lecture Series Program on 25 th, December, EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Unit Leader of National Service Scheme (N.S.S) unit, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, University of Mysore, Mysore, for the year Actively involved in organizing and participated in several activities like Blood donation, Tree plantation, Shramadhan, talent s day, Camps, etc. Member of National Service Scheme (N.S.S) for 5 years ( & ), AIISH NSS Unit, University of Mysore, Mysore, India. Served as General Secretary of AIISH Gymkhana, AIISH, Mysore for the year COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE I have good knowledge in MS Office (Microsoft word, Excel, Power Point presentation), SPSS. Speech Language softwares: Compumedics Neuroscan Ltd. (Electrophysiology/ERPs) Praat V Used for Spectrographic analysis of speech samples. DMDX, Check vocal. used to measure Reaction time in different speech and language tasks.

16 Language analysis software s Software s like CLAN, SALT which are used to analyze the language samples in terms of Syntax, semantics. CSL Lab (Multi Dimensional Voice Program, Motor Speech Profile, Nasometry) Used for speech and voice analysis of different clinical population. Dr. Speech Software used for assessment and treatment of voice disorders. Vaghmi Software - Software used for assessment of voice disorders Spirometers. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Used for statistical analysis of data in research projects. PERSONAL PROFILE Date of Birth: 29 th, June Languages known: Telugu, English and Kannada. Education Qualifications: Bachelor of Science (Speech & Hearing), Master of Science (Speech Language Pathology), Ph.D (SLP), University of Mysore, Mysore, INDIA. Sunil Kumar. Ravi