About the Speaker:

Dr. Prawin Kumar is an Alumnus of AIIMS, New Delhi (B.ASLP) and AIISH, Mysore (M.Sc.-Audiology & PhD-Audiology).  He started his carrier as Lecturer in year 2010 and currently serving as Associate Professor in Audiology. He served as Head of the department in Audiology, which is one of the biggest and core department at AIISH, Mysore for 3 years (2020-2022).

He is a recognised guide for PhD (Audiology) at University of Mysore.

He served as principal investigator and Co-investigator of grants of more than 150 Lakhs  (10 intramural and 3 extramural project (DST, Government of India) and served as author and co-authors in 79 scientific papers in national and international conferences.  He is having 63 publication in peer-reviewed international and national Journals. He received Young Scientist international travel grants from ICMR, New Delhi to present scientific paper in Asia Pacific conference in Speech, Language and Hearing at Taiwan and also received Certificate course (online) in CAPD from ASHA, USA in year 2020 and Advanced audiology course training (online) in Cochlear implants from  Institute for Cochlear Implant Training, USA in year 2021.

 

About the Course:

Central auditory processing includes the auditory mechanisms that underlie the following abilities or skills such as sound localization and lateralization; auditory discrimination; auditory pattern recognition; temporal aspects of audition including temporal integration, temporal discrimination, temporal ordering, and temporal masking; auditory performance in competing acoustic signals and auditory performance with degraded acoustic signals. The central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) is a condition, where the deficiency observed in one or more above mentioned behaviours. At the same time, these children will have normal hearing and normal intelligence. These deficits probably may have higher level processing deficit rather than auditory alone at peripheral level. Therefore, appropriate assessment and effective intervention is essential for those individuals identified as CAPD.