Post Graduate work
(xvii) Chairperson, Scientific Committee of 42nd Conference of the Indian Speech & Hearing Association held at NIMHANS, Bangalore from 21st to 24th Jan 2010.
(xvi) Appointed Academic Advisor for Ph. D program in Speech-Language Pathology at the School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IRAN, August 2008 (xv) Appointed as Academic Advisor to SRCISH, Bangalore, 2008-09.
(xiv) Principal Investigator – “ Towards standardized assessment and Intervention for Children with Communication Disorders leading to their Better Performance and Integration into Mainstream Society”, Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust, 2007-2010.
(xiii) Principal Investigator – “Normatization of indigenous evaluation procedures for Communication DEALL”, Sir Ratan Tata Trust, 2005-06.
(xii) Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Study Center at Bellagio, Como, Italy. April-May 2002.
(xi) Director, Communication DEALL – An early intervention program for children with developmental language disorders. 2000 -
(x) Fulbright Visiting Professor, (1999-2000), at the University of Georgia, Athens and the City University of New York, New York.
(ix) Collaborator – International project on ‘Acquired Reading & Writing Disturbances in Brain Damaged Adults: Neurological, Cognitive & Cultural Aspects’, funded by the Human Frontiers Science Project grant to Professor A.R.Lecours, Montreal & Professor A Caramazza of Harvard.
(viii) Principal Investigator – Project on Development of Language Training Materials in Major Indian Languages”, funded by UNICEF, New Delhi.1993- 1996
(vii) Principal Investigator- ‘A Developmental Investigation of Onset, Progress and Stages of Literacy Acquisition- Its Implications for Instructional Process’. NCERT.1993-1996.
(vi) Consultant, IDRC, Human Development & Family Studies Research Network, M.S. University, Baroda; Project on ‘Acquisition of Reading and Writing in Assamese and Marathi.1994.
(v) Principal Coordinator on ‘Development of video record of Speech and Hearing disordered cases for public education and training’. AIISH , Mysore, 1992- 1994.
(iv) Expert Consultant – UNICEF funded joint project of National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped, Bombay and Regional Rehabilitation Training Centre, Madras on ‘Development & Standardization of Language and Articulation Tests in Indian Languages’. 1988-1992.
(iii) Principal Investigator- Project on ‘Language Disorders in Indian Neurological Patients- a Study in Neurolinguistics in the Indian Context’. An inter-institutional collaborative project. between AIISH, Mysore, AIIMS, Delhi and NIMHANS, Bangalore, funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research. 1986-1990
(ii) Post –Doctoral Research-‘Interrelationship of Linguistic deviance and Social deviance’. Young Scientists Fellowship Award, Indian Council of Social Science Research.1980-1982.
(i) Doctoral thesis- ‘A Comparative Analysis of Aphasic and Schizophrenic Language’. University of Mysore. 1977-1980.