Suresh Thontadarya

Shravan Institute of Speech and Hearing

Introduction Masseter vestibular evoked myogenic potential (mVEMP) is an acoustically evoked potential recorded from the masseter muscle. It is a recent tool in the vestibular assessment battery that checks the integrity of the vestibulomasseteric reflex pathway, specifically for saccular function. Need of the study There is a small pool of subjec...

Background: Spatial hearing questionnaire (SHQ) is a questionnaire developed and validated for evaluating the spatial hearing abilities for the tasks of localization of sound to complex task of speech perception in noise. SHQ is adapted in Dutch language, and in Persian language. The study aimed to compare the spatial hearing abilities of children...

Background: The attitude and opinion of internship experience as reported by students can be a useful data for effective monitoring of any academic program. Such methods are common practice worldwide, e.g., ASHA publishes survey reports annually. The present project was aimed at evaluating the perception and attitude of students of the internship p...

Background: Audiologist and Speech language pathologist (ASLPs) are a group of professionals specialized in communication disorders. Their work responsibilities require them to be interacting with people with different backgrounds, education and ages who seek assistance from these young professionals. It is important to know whether the professiona...

Introduction Intervention and educational approaches ranging from oral language only to oral language combined with various forms of sign language have evolved. The aim of this study was to understand the choices of language for the deaf/ hearing impaired child for communication by the parents using a survey questionnaire. The objectives were to a...

Background: Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ) has been used to assess working efficiency of an individual. The self-reporting MEQ is available in English language, and its applicability to Indian scenario is limited to educated/ English proficient individuals only. Since, majority in India still depend on the regional languages for commun...

COVID-19 (Corona Virus Infectious Disease) situations reported in 2019, declared by World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic is still a prevailing global crisis. Common regulations were implemented such as lockdown, wearing face masks as mandatory, face shields, gloves and maintaining physical and social distance in public places to reduce the...

Background: Health care providers must be aware of the choices in aural rehabilitation methods and assessment procedures available presently to those with hearing impairment in order to facilitate early identification and intervention and ensure quality of care to those hearing impaired individuals. The referrals from the medical fraternities for t...

Background: There is a lot of debate on whether musical experience/training can affect cochlear filter characteristics and thereby enhance frequency resolution skills in musicians (Ms). Thus, the objective of the study was to compare between Ms and non-musicians (NMs) and correlate the frequency resolution skills with years of musical experience,...

The term "aphasia" refers to a family of clinically diverse disorders that affect the ability to communicate by oral or written language, or both following brain damage. Aphasia is broadly classified as "receptive" and "expressive aphasia". While linguistic deficits have been studied well in aphasia, the auditory perceptual deficits have not receiv...

Background: The present paper highlights a single case study where inclusion of additional Immittance procedures such as Multifrequency tympanometry (MFT), Multicomponent (MCT) tympanometry along with single frequency tympanometry, reflexometry and other tests in a test battery approach helped in identifying a cholesteatoma / CSOM during our regul...

subjective evaluation method of balance and gait functions among children with Hearing impairment. Validity and outcome.

Backround: Speech signals are known to be altered to a significant level by background noise, reverberation, and less than desirable specifications in frequency and temporal responses of communication channel. Everyday noises in an individual’s own acoustic environment is a heterogeneous group and dynamic in that it changes throughout the day as we...

Introduction: Older adults with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) find it difficult to understand speech especially, in noise. Hearing aid is one among the rehabilitative option available to them. Even with advent in hearing aid technology, adequate benefit for hearing loss is a colossal challenge. It was hypothesized that channel free hearing aid...