- ICCONS,Shoranur, Palakkad (0466)2224869; 6238440945
- ICCONS, Pulayanarkotta,Trivandrum-11 (0471)2440232, 2447729
- icconssrr@gmail.com
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Clinical Psychology
Smt. Dhanalekshmi G S
Registrar in Clinical Psychology
email : dhanalekshmi@iccons.co.in
- MA Psychology (2nd Rank, Kerala University May 2005)
- State Eligibility Test(SET)
- Registrar in Clinical Psychology, 2007 till date
- Rehabilitation psychology
- Specific Learning Disorders/ Learning Disabilities
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Down's Syndrome
- Curriculum preparation for the ASHA and ANUYATRA workers
- Disability Board Member in assessing and issuing disability certificate for SLD -SSA, Kerala (Gen Hospital, Nedumangad)
- Disability Board Member in assessing and issuing disability certificate for ID -SSA, Kerala (BRC, Balaramapuram)
- Member of Rehabilitation Psychologist, India
- Member of RCI (Rehabilitation Council of India) No. A58518
- Co-Investigator in "Evaluation of the effect of training in magical sciences and a variety of art forms 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)
- Organized group therapy for children with ASD
- Actively involved in the Medical Camp for issuing Disability Card
- faculty member of Course development viz M.Sc Applied Psychology in Cognitive Rehabilitation - Syllabus setting
- Involved in SLD Camp conducted in LIONS CLUB, Kottayam
- Involved in 'I am Ready Program'- a programme f
- As a Coordinator for the programme - 'I am Ready '
- Involved in Vacation Training Programmes
- Member of Calicut University BASLP Paper Valuation Team in the period 2006-2009
- Academic .. for BASLP Course at ICCONS Shoranur
- Co-Investigator in "Evaluation of the effect of training in magical sciences and a variety of art forms 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)
- Co-Investigator in "the impact of training children with disability by conventional methods in addition to different art forms" a collaborative project by Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences (ICCONS) and Different Arts Centre (Academy of Magical Sciences)
- 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 at Department of linguistics, University of Kerala
- • “Effect of Speech rate on Acoustic vowel space” at the 40th National Conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association held at Mangalore
- As a subject expert in the development of curriculum for “Speech and Audio Therapy Assistant” course of VHSE organized by SCERT
- As a resource person of “Department of General Education Kerala” in conducting classes for parents and Resource teachers on “Awareness and Management of Children with Disability”
- 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
- Training/ Practical expertise given to catalyst in handling cases on disabilities from age 15 – 40 yrs organized by Kerala Social Security Mission
- As a resource person in the orientation class for parents of disabled artists in Magic Planet organized by Kerala social security mission KSSM) & Kerala Development & Innovation Strategic Council (K-DISC)
- As a resource person for continuing rehabilitation education (CRE) of Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) organized by Dept of Psychology, University of Kerala in February & March 2019
- As a resource person for continuing rehabilitation education (CRE) of Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) organized by ICCONS in 2020 &2021
- •As a resource person in State Institute for Education Management and Training (SIEMAT) – Kerala in developing “Handbook on Autism” and also in developing “Handbook on Mental Retardation”
- 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