Professor Vishakha Rawool of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the College of Education and Human Services received a prestigious Fellow Award from the Bangalore Speech and Hearing Trust. As a part of the award, Rawool will travel to the Dr. SRC Chandraskehkhar Institute in Bangalore, India.
Rawool will present “Industrial Toxins and Hearing Loss” and “Diagnosis and Assessment of Auditory Processing Deficits in Children with Language Impairments” at the end of January 2016. She will also lead two seminars at the Continuing Education Program (CEP) of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA) on “The Intervention for Auditory Processing Disorders in Older Adults” and “Auditory Processing Deficits in Older Adults”.
Rawool has been invited to deliver a seminar on the “Role of Audiologists in Prevention of Hearing Loss” during the convention on Feb. 6.
“The fellowship is a recognition of my work from international peers,” said Rawool. “It motivates me to continue and enhance my work in the areas of hearing conservation and auditory processing deficits.” Rawool is a graduate of first Audiology & Speech Therapy School in India which started in 1963 and admitted the first class for training in June of 1966.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the training program, the Indian Speech & Hearing Association will be holding their 48th Annual Convention (ISHACON2016) in Mumbai from 4th to 7th February 2016. Dr. Rawool has been invited on behalf of ISHACON2016 as one of the faculty speakers.
Rawool directs the Audiology Research Laboratory and is the Director of Graduate Study in Audiology. Her research is focused on prevention, diagnoses, and intervention of deficits in understanding speech.
“Age related deficits in speech recognition are partially related to peripheral (inner ear) and central (auditory nerve and brain) areas,” said Rawool. “The prevention of peripheral hearing loss (hearing conservation) can partially assist in minimizing or preventing age-related deficits in understanding speech. I am interested in expanding diagnostic and treatment approaches for central auditory processing deficits.”
Rawool is a graduate of first Audiology & Speech Therapy School in India which started in 1963 and was admittedin the first class for training in June of 1966.
For more information on Rawool’s research and honors, please contact Professor Vishakha Rawool at 304-293-2984 or at VWRawool@mail.wvu.edu
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