Sudhin Karuppali

Manipal University, Mangalore · Audiology and Speech Language Pathology

Background Pragmatic language assessment in children is performed in line with standard protocols, guidelines, and best practices. The absence of these aspects in the Indian context has resulted in the quest to explore the approaches used by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to assess pragmatic language impairments. This survey explored the curre...

Purpose The overuse of screen-based devices results in developmental problems in children. Parents are an integral part of the children’s language development. The present study explores the parental perspectives on the impact of screen time on the language skills of typically developing school-going children using a developed questionnaire. Metho...

Purpose Student clinicians (graduates and undergraduates) in speech-language pathology deal with various multilingual issues while providing clinical services to individuals with language impairments. This study explores the attitudes and practices of undergraduate and graduate speech-language pathology students in India towards multilingualism and...

Purpose Perspective-based studies have been carried out on health professionals to create clinical implications that will positively impact the healthcare system. There are no such studies exploring the perspectives of Indian speech language pathologists (SLPs) towards handling adolescents with language impairments. Therefore, the current study aim...

Purpose Stuttering is a fluency disorder that mostly begins in childhood and affects many people in our societies. No standardized screening tools are available to check for stuttering in the Indian school-going population. Thus, the study aimed at developing a screening tool to identify children who stutter among the school-going population using...

Purpose: Stuttering is a fluency disorder with a worldwide prevalence of 1%. Reports on the epidemiology of stuttering in India is limited. Our primary goal was to examine the prevalence of the disorder among school children. The study also aimed to study the impact of several risk factors on the prevalence of stuttering. Method: A total of 3437 ch...

Stuttering, a condition affecting many individuals in society, is characterized by disruptions in the smooth flow of speech. It usually begins during childhood and involves involuntary repetitions, prolongations, blocks, avoidance, and accompanying behaviors while speaking. Identifying children at risk of stuttering enables intervention services du...

Objectives Lexical breadth of knowledge is the quantity of words that the individual knows with regard to vocabulary size of the learner; while lexical depth is the learner's knowledge and mastery level of various semantic relations of a given word. Both measures have been used in the assessment of speaking/writing skills of first (L1) and second (...

Purpose: The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has opened opportunities for service providers and patients to continue with clinical services in certain extraordinary settings and circumstances. Telerehabilitation in the field of speech language pathology in India is still at its infancy, with a majority of the Speech Language Pathologists (S...

Background: Pretend play is a form of play that involves nonliteral actions. There are limited studies reporting the developmental trends of pretend play behaviours of typically developing pre-schoolers. This knowledge would be beneficial in the early identification of deviations in pre-schoolers who have or are at risk of developing developmental...

Background Parental concerns pertaining to communication abilities are essential as it does aid in the identification of the children at risk of physical and mental health problems. Objectives The current study followed a cross sectional study design. The study focussed on developing a questionnaire targeting the parental concerns in Typically dev...

Context The competence in theory of mind (ToM) abilities occurs in parallel with the development of language. To gain a deeper discernment about its proficiency, tasks tapping on higher-order ToM abilities have been implemented. Aims This study aims to explore the development of higher-order ToM abilities in bilingual Indian children between 3.0 a...

Background The syntactic structures used by adolescents can be calculated by measuring various markers that have the scope of developing with age. The use of such markers can be influenced by the type and modality of discourse on the individual uses. Aims The present study was aimed at exploring the syntactic development in 10–16-year-old Indian a...

Background: Language development during early childhood is crucial to a child’s overall development. The socioeconomic status (SES) is a major contributing factor to development, whose impact on language is less explored in young children especially in a multicultural country like India. This research focussed on assessing the semantic language of...

Objective: Purohit, in the Indian religious context (Hindu), means priest. Purohits are professional voice users who use their voice while performing regular worships and rituals in temples and homes. Any deviations in their voice can have an impact on their profession. Hence, there is a need to investigate the voice characteristics of purohits us...

Introduction: Analogical reasoning skills are a cognitive linguistic mechanism that develops with age. This development is manifested in the language abilities exhibited by children and adolescents. There are only a handful of standardised language tasks available to assess analogical skills in typically developing adolescents in India. Aim: The pr...

Background: Morphological processing are higher-order abilities which includes an implicit processing of the morphological language. Tasks that can expose the morphological framework of an individual requires to be administered with utmost precision. Aims: With the research in adolescent language in India being an unexplored area, the present study...

Background: Oral narratives are an integral part of communication, which primarily develops during the early and middle-school years. The macrostructural form of narratives showcases the child's use of language, and the organization of the story and coherence. With only a handful of western standardized language assessment measures available to det...

Semantics is one of the important areas of language development in the adolescent period, whereas lexicon is an important element of language development. An individual's level of semantic/lexical mastery can be accounted for in terms of lexical density and diversity. The present study focused on analyzing the semantic system of adolescents between...

Language development is an ongoing process. The understanding of figurative expressions such as similes begins during the preschool years with subsequent improvement throughout childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood. Studies pertaining to the development of such higher language skills are limited, especially in a multilingual setup like India.M...

This book is a one of a kind, containing a compilation of various researches done in the field of auditory perceptual training. The present study was done to determine the efficacy of such auditory perceptual training in inexperienced listeners for the identification of dysphonic voices. Such regular training programs are essential in a regular aca...

Experiments such as the McGurk effect have supported the inter-dependence of the auditory and visual modalities. This perceptive reasoning is in line with the assumption that emotional expressions in the face and voice are processed by the same perceptual/cognitive mechanism. This research aimed to study the accuracy of the identification of intend...