About the Speaker: Dr Prawin Kumar

He 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:

The course starts off by explaining the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system as well as the causes, symptoms, and history of CAPD. The evaluation of CAPD utilising several diagnostic and screening tests follows. The management of CAPD is finally covered in depth, along with the environmental changes needed and the current evidence-based practises.