RESEARCH

ELECTIVES

Research Projects - Batch 1

Name

Title

Name of supervisor

Abdul Wahid Ajeema

A normative study of Phonemic and Phonological development in three year old Sri Lankan Tamil speaking children in the Trincomalee district

Dr. Shyamani Hettiarachchi

M.M.M K Bandara

Developing a word list to assess articulation skills in Sinhala speaking children with cleft lip and palate: age range between 3 years to 3 ½ years

Prof. Debbie Sell

Ms. Saumya Rathnayake

T.K Bandaranayaka

Acquisition of expressive skills of colours and post-positional labels of Sinhala speaking children in the Galle district: age range 4 ½ - 5 ½ years

Prof. Manique Gunesekera

Ms. Ianthe Perera

 

L.K Eranthi Chathurika

Performance scores of Sinhala speaking normative hearing children for translated Glendonald Auditory Screening Procedure (GASP)

Ms. Dinushee Atapattu

R.M.D.S.M Hamine

Acquisition of comprehension skills of Colours& Postpositional labels of Sinhala speaking children in the Galle district (first language acquisition study: Typical development 3 ½ - 4 ½ years)

Prof. Manique Gunesekera

Ms. Ianthe Perera

Y.K.K Hettiarachchi

Narrative development in Sinhala children in Colombo (first language acquisition: Typical development 5 years and 6 months)

Prof. Barbara B. Shadden

Ms. Ianthe Perera

R.S Lorensu Hewa

Identifying social and economical challenges faced by parents of children with Down Syndrome and coping strategies used to overcome these challenges in the age range between birth to ten years

Dr. Leenika Wijerathne

K.A.P Jayatissa

Is disability a challenge? The parents’ perspective…

Dr. Leenika Wijerathne

P.V.I.I Jayawardhana

The challenges faced by adolescents with Down Syndrome while accessing education and establishing social relationships and strategies used to overcome these challenges by parents (Western province)

Dr. Leenika Wijerathne

L.B.T.C Lokubalasuriya

Developing a word list to assess articulation skills in Sinhala speaking children with cleft lip and/or palate ( age range 2 ½ to 3 years)

Prof. Debbie Sell

Ms. Saumya Rathnayake

M.M.N Nimeshika

Acquisition of expressive skills of colours and post-positional labels of Sinhala speaking children in the Galle district

Prof. Manique Gunesekera

Ms. Ianthe Perera

P.D.M Nonis

A study of Phonetic and Phonological development of Sinhala speaking children in the Puttalam district aged 3 -4 years

Dr. Shyamani Hettiarachchi

K.M.N. Pathirana

A comparison of the phonetic and phonological development in typically developing Sinhala speaking monolingual and Sinhala and Sri Lankan English speaking bilingual children in the Kandy district

Dr. Shyamani Hettiarachchi

M.S.D Perera

Narrative development in Sinhala speaking children in Colombo (first language acquisition: Typical development 7 years and 6 months)

Prof. Barbara B. Shadden

Ms. Ianthe Perera

P.A.J.S Perera

Groundwork for developing prospective Sinhala language assessment for identifying post-stroke aphasia: Project pre-aphasia Sri Lanka 2012

Prof. Barbara B. Shadden

Ms. Saumya Rathnayake

M.S.S Premarathna

Psychosocial aspect of Puberphonia (based on Western Province)

Dr. Leenika Wijerathne

K.B G.S Ranasingha

A comparative analysis of phonemic and phonological acquisition in the speech of 3-4 year old Sinhala speaking first born and later born children in the Kalutara district

Dr. Shyamani Hettiarachchi

B.S.T Ranasinghe

A normative study of distortion product Otoacoustic Emissions (DPOAEs) in a Sri Lankan adult population

Ms Lakna Mendis

R.A.D.U Ranawake

A normative study of distortion product Otoacoustic Emissions in 3 -8 year old children in Sri Lankan context

Ms. Asela Udayangani

S.M.A.I Senanayaka

Development MPT ( Monosyllabic – Trochee – Polysyllabic words) test performance scores in Sinhala speaking children

Ms. Lakna Mendis

A.S.F Shakeela

Typical phonemic and phonological development of three year old Sri Lankan Tamil speaking children from the Colombo district

Dr. Shyamani Hettiarachchi

Y.P Sirisoma

Establishing a non-linguistic perception tool for children to be used in auditory training

Ms. Piumi Kosgallana

A.A.N Subajani

A study of identifying challenges faced by adolescents with hearing impairment and coping strategies used by the parents to overcome these challenges while accessing education and establishing social relationship

Dr. Leenika Wijerathne

S Udanganuwa

Developing a work list to assess articulation skills in Sinhala speaking children with cleft lip and palate: Age range 2 years to 2 ½ years

Prof. Debbie Sell

G.N Uthpala

Acquisition of receptive skills of colours& post positional labels of Sinhala speaking children in Galle district (first language acquisition study: Typical development 4 ½ - 5 ½ years)

Prof. Manique Gunesekera

Ms. Ianthe Perera

W.A.G.M Wanniarachchi

Phonemic and phonological development in the speech of 3 to 4 year old Sinhala speaking children living in the Rathnapura district whose mothers are employed or not employed

Dr. Shyamani Hettiarachchi

U.P Wanniarachchi

Acquisition of receptive skills of colours & post – positional labels of Sinhala speaking children in the Galle district (first language acquisition study: Typical development 2 ½ - 3 ½ years)

Prof. Manique Gunesekera

Ms. Ianthe Perera

R. Weerasekera

Groundwork for developing prospective Sinhala language assessments for identifying post – stroke aphasia: Project pre-aphasia Sri Lanka 2012

Prof. Barbara B. Shadden

Ms. Saumya Rathnayake

B.G.S.D Wickramasooriya

Groundwork for developing prospective Sinhala language assessments for identifying post – stroke aphasia: Project pre-aphasia Sri Lanka 2012

Prof. Barbara B. Shadden

Ms. Saumya Rathnayake

G.P.T Wijerathne

Groundwork for developing prospective Sinhala language assessments for identifying post – stroke aphasia: Project pre-aphasia Sri Lanka 2012

Prof. Barbara B. Shadden

Ms. Saumya Rathnayake

M.G.A Jayarathna

Psychosocial aspect of dysfluency in young adults (Western province)

Dr. Leenika Wijerathne

F.S Hamza

A comparative study of phonetic and phonological development in monolingual Sinhala & bilingual Sri Lankan Tamil – Sinhala speaking children

Dr. Shyamani Hettiarachchi

S.P.B.N Silva

Narrative development in Sinhala speaking children (first language acquisition study: Typical development 6 years 6 months)

Prof. Barbara B. Shadden

Ms. Ianthe Perera

W.A.K.H Wijesooriya

Groundwork for developing prospective Sinhala language assessments for identifying post – stroke aphasia: Project pre-aphasia Sri Lanka 2012

Prof. Barbara B. Shadden

Ms. Saumya Rathnayake

A.K.S.T.H Silva

Acquisition of expressive skills for colours & postpositional labels of Sinhala speaking children in the Galle district(first language acquisition study: Typical development 3 ½ - 4 ½ years)

Prof. Manique Gunesekera

Ms. Ianthe Perera

 

 

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