ASHA Convention 2015
Three of the final year research projects of our Batch 3 Speech & Hearing Sciences (SHS) students, one research project by a Batch 1 SHS student and one research project by an upgrade student who completed a BSc in Speech Therapy were presented as poster presentations at the Annual American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention held in Denver, Colorado, USA, from the 12th -14th November 2015.
ASHA Convention (2013)
Six of our Speech & Hearing Sciences students of Batch 1 had the opportunity to present on their final year research projects as poster presentations at the Annual American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from the 14th -16th November 2013.
Our student Shakeela Saleem was awarded a meritorious award for her poster.
1st World Congress in Ear and Hearing Care (2015)
Four students from Batch 3 following the BSc in Speech and Hearing Sciences, specializing in Audiology, got the opportunity to attend the 1st World Congress in Ear and Hearing Care 2015' in New Delhi, India, from the 12th to the 14th of February 2015. Their final-year undergraduate research projects were chosen for presentation by the congress organizers under the following conference themes and modes of presentation:
Theme I - Noise Induced Hearing Loss
1. Presenter: K. Piumi Ayeshika Perera
Title: Occupational noise exposure, awareness, attitudes, use of personal hearing protection devices among Liquefied Petroleum Gas Cylinder Infusion factory workers
Mode of the presentation: Oral presentation
2. Presenter: Krisha Hansajie
Title: Knowledge, attitudes and practices on Noise Induced Hearing Loss among factory workers of two dairy product manufacturing factories in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka
Mode of the presentation: Oral presentation
Theme II - Miscellaneous
3. Presenter: L. M. Unagolla
Title: Commonly used Behavioral Hearing Tests among Audiologists and audiometricians in the Western Province, Sri Lanka
Mode of the presentation: Poster presentation
4. Presenter: Dinusha Manathunga
Title: Different severity levels of tinnitus and how it affects the lifestyle of patients who are attending the ENT clinics, national hospital, Colombo
Mode of the presentation: Poster presentation
ASHA Convention (2014)
Six Speech & Hearing Sciences students of Batch 2 gained the opportunity to present their final year research projects as poster presentations at the Annual American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention held at the Orange County Convention Centre in Orlando, Florida, USA, from the 20th -22nd November 2014.
Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity (2015)
Nadini Perera (Batch 03), presented her final year research project findings at the Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity, held from the 18th -19th May 2015 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The research conducted under the topic "Communication Interventional that Influence the Employment of Person with Disabilities" was presented by her along with an invited presentation on the South Asian regional Status on disability. The conference is one of the most diverse and well recognized meetings in the world, offering a forum for discussion of interdisciplinary research on disability and educational advances for persons with disabilities.
