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Audiology & Speech Language Pathology
Smt.Divya G
Lecturer Gr.I
email : divya@iccons.co.in
- MASLP
- Lecturer Gr I 2008 till date
- KDISC Innovation award- March, 2023
- Child language disorders
- Neurogenic adult language disorders
- Curriculum preparation for the ASHA and ANUYATRA workers
- Life member of ISHA (Indian Speech & Hearing Association) No.L-1058
- Member of RCI (Rehabilitation Council of India) No. A09046
- Co-Investigator in "Evaluation of the effect of training in magical sciences and a variety of art forms and training using conventional therapy in addition on behavioral and other outcomes among differently abled children", a collaborative project by Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences (ICCONS) and Different Arts Centre (Academy of Magical Sciences)"
- As a member of the panel committee to formulate proposal for Aadram Project
- As a Panel member in the interview board for the selection of EEG Technician held on 30th August 2019
- Member of the Curriculum Committee for preparing a curriculum for imparting training to the ASHA & ANUYATRA Volunteers
- Member of the internal committee for the prevention , prohibition and redressal of sexual harassement of ICCONS, Trivandrum
- Represented ICCONs at the Zonal Co ordination Committee(ZCC) Second level Committee meeting held at Spastic Society of Tamil Nadu ,2016
- Represented ICCONS in the experience sharing session of symbiotic nature on best practices on Management of Autism Spectrum Disorders held at Mascot Hotel, Trivandrum on 8th March 2018.
- Subject expert for module preparation workshop at Magic Planet, organized by KDISC on 16th September 2019.
- Done Pre assessment of differently abled children at the Different Art Center of Magic Planet from 26th – 28th September 2019 and also on 30th September 2019
- Done Post assessment of differently abled children at the Different Art Center of Magic Planet on 27th November 2019
- Attended online meet on Demonstration of AVAZ software organized by KDISC on 18th August 2020.
- Developed an assessment tool for measuring the knowledge level, Attitudes and Current practices of School teachers towards students with learning disabilities in May 2014.
- Guide of the Dissertation entitled “ Analysis of writing errors in Malayalam speaking Learning Disabled children” of Second Year MASLP student ( ICCONS, Shoranur), submitted to Kerala University of Health Sciences (KUHS), 2015
- Organized group therapy for children with language age up to 3years.
- Organized camps as part of disability week
- Organized audiology camp on world hearing day on 2 successive years
- Involved in Medical camp at ICCONS, Trivandrum from 2nd to 6th December 2019.
- Assessment, diagnosis and management for communicative disorders for all age
- Attended online training on use of vocabulary and stuttering softwares of Dr.Speech on 8th Februvary 2022
- Have a post PG teaching experience of 14 yrs
- Involves in taking classes for BASLP students at ICCONS, Shoranur
- Co ordinated BASLP Internship students from ICCONS, Shoranur from 2010 to 2015)
- Co ordinated BASLP Internship students from AWH Special College, Kozhikode and Marthoma College of Special Education during the academic year 2016- 2017
- Presently co ordinating BASLP Internship students from ICCONS, Shoranur (2022)
- Provided Internship training and presentation on “Speech and Language Aspects of Child Language Disorders” to candidates of Diploma in Management of Learning Disability, State Resource Centre Community College from 12th to 27th October 2021
- Provided clinical exposure to Msc Psychology students of K.E.M College, Mannanam from 3rd to 14th januvary 2022
- Providing internship training to Msc Psychology students of Dept of Psychology, University of Kerala from 1st April 2022 for a period of 50 days
- Providing internship training to a Msc Psychology student from SDM College, Karnataka from 28th April 2022 to May 30th 2022.
- Provided clinical exposure to a MSW student who is doing field work at ICCONS, Trivandrum from 18th to 28th April 2022.
- Experience on assessments, treatment planning and therapeutic treatment for post stroke aphasia, speech and language impairment in children, hearing assessment for both adults and children and in Aural rehabilitation for adults and Gaediatric population
- Experience on Screening camps and in conducting workshops for teachers of various schools on speech and language impairment in children
- Knowledge in organizing and executing group therapies of children with different language disorders based on age range and two months’ vacation training programs for specific learning disorder
- Counselling of parents and caretakers on the specific disorders and also on the role they play in the rehabilitation.
- Involved in various parental awareness programs on speech and language impairment in children
- Parsing with articulatory rehearsal facilitates syntactically correct oral expression in children with HFA – A single case study in the Three – Day National Seminar on Psychological Aspects of Linguistics at the Department of Psychology, University of Kerala during 14th to 16th March 2016.
- “Effect of Speech rate on Acoustic vowel space” at the 40th National Conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association held at Mangalore from 1st to 3rd February, 2008.
- Online presentation on Speech and language acquisition in children with cleft lip and palate : Challenges and remedial strategies at the International conference on Clubfoot on 6th December 2021
- Online presentation on Artificial Intelligence enabled Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC) software in Malayalam language to provide online supervised speech and language therapy for Differently abled children as a part of the Citizen Service -One Department One Idea initiative of K-DISC on 3rd March 2022.
- Online presentation of project proposal to K-DISC on Artificial Intelligence enabled Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC) software in Malayalam language to provide online supervised speech and language therapy for Differently abled children at the review workshop of Citizen Service -One Department One Idea initiative on 12th April 2022
- Attended Continuing Rehabilitation Education (CRE) ,National workshop on “Managing behaviours of children with developmental disabilities in classroom & home settings” on 27th & 28th April 2017.
- Resource person in the CRE Webinar entitled “Learning Disability and its Differential Diagnosis” held on 6 th and 7 th May 2021 at Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences (ICCONS), Thiruvananthapuram.
- Resource Person in the State Level CRE Seminar on “Nonverbal Learning Disability” at Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences (ICCONS), Thiruvananthapuram held on 23 rd to 25 th January 2023.
- As a subject expert in the workshop for the NSQF curriculum development SPELL III for “Speech and Audio Therapy Assistant” course of VHSE organized by SCERT , Trivandrum on 3rd & 4th February 2021.
- Provided online interactive session to VHSE Speech and Audio Therapy Assistant course students of three different schools on “Scope and Practice of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology” as part of expert interactive session on 24th & 26th Januvary 2021& 10th March 2021
- Provided online interactive session to VHSE Speech and Audio Therapy Assistant course students of three different schools “Early Identification of Hearing loss” on 24th October 2021 & 4th November 2021 & 21st November 2021
- As a resource person of “Department of General Education Kerala, District Institute of Education and Training” in conducting classes for parents and Resource teachers on “Awareness and Management of Children with Disability” at Govt.Boys Higher Secondary School, Neyyattinkara on 27th June 2016.
- As a resource person in the eight day “Teachers Training Programme on Learning Disability Phase II organized by ICCONS from 21st to 30th March 2014 held at ICCONS, Trivandrum
- As a resource person in taking classes to special Education B.Ed (Mental Retardation ) under the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on 4th April 2013.
- Training/ Practical expertise given to catalyst in handling cases on disabilities from age 15 – 40 yrs under the “Leadership Camp – Youth with Disabilities 2019.Orientation program for camp volunteers and Catalyst” organized by Kerala Social Security Mission on 25th March 2019.
- Clinical assistance given to differently abled children at the leadership camp held at “BSNL Regional Training Center , Trivandrum on 1st April 2019.
- As a resource person in the orientation class for parents of differently abled artists in Magic Planet organized by Kerala social security mission KSSM) & Kerala Development & Innovation Strategic Council (K-DISC) on 16th October 2019
- As a resource person for continuing rehabilitation education (CRE), State Level Workshop on “Understanding Learning Disability: Assessment, Diagnosis and Intervention” organized by Department of Psychology, University of Kerala from 25th -27th March 2019
- CRE UNIVERsity
- As a resource person for continuing rehabilitation education (CRE) of Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) organized by ICCONS on “ Managing behaviours in the classroom and home” during 14th to 18th January 2020
- As a resource person for continuing rehabilitation education (CRE) Webinar on “Learning Disability and its Differential Diagnosis “of Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) organized by ICCONS on 6th & 7th May 2021
- As a subject Expert in the Two day Residential Workshop in connection with the preparation of Handbook on Mentally Retarded organized by State Institute for Education Management and Training (SIEMAT) – Kerala on 2nd & 3rd May 2013
- Conducted workshop on teachers training program for the identification and management of children with Learning Disability at St.Thomas School, Trivandrum
- As a resource person in the “Seminar on Learning Disability and Speech and language problems in Early Childhood” organized by Lions Club, Kayamkulam
- Involves in empowering teachers in the identification of Speech and language problems in Children of different schools in Trivandrm Distict.
- Impact of a short-term awareness teaching programme on primary and middle school teachers about the neurological factors that affect learning disability. Indian J Child Health. 2020; 7(5):207-209
- Parsing with articulatory rehearsal facilitates syntactically correct oral expression in children with High Functioning Autism (ASD) – A case study in Asia Pacific Journal of Research, vol – 1, issue XL1, July 2016, pp: 6-15
- Co- author for "Knowledge, Attitudes & Practices of Primary and Secondary School Teachers on Specific Learning Disorders – A report of evidence from Thiruvananthapu: KAP of Primary and Secondary School Teachers on SLD," which was included in the title Handbook of Research on Psychosocial Perspectives of Human Communication Disorders