Faculty
Ms. SHWETHA
- Designation Associate Professor & Principal
- Email principal.nish@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date 08-05-2017
MASLP
17 years
Audiology
HOD
- Rehabilitation Counsel of India CRR A13487
- Indian Speech and Hearing Association - L11091833
PROF. T. DATTATREYA
- Designation Professor Emeritus
- Email dattaterya_t@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date 01-01-2024
MSc (Sp & Hg)
50 yrs
- Speech Sound Disorders
- Adult Language Disorders
- Motor Speech Disorders
- Audiological Evaluation
- Amplification Devices
- Aural Rehabilitation
- Voice Disorders
- Fluency Disorders
- Founder principal, Director, of Nitte Institute of Speech and Hearing (NISH), Deralakatte, Mangalore.
- Recipient of Dr. Kameshwaran Oration Award by ISHA.
- Founder President of DK ISHA.
- Academic Teaching
- Clinical Teaching
- Clinical Supervision
- RCI CRR No. A06192
- Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA)
DR JAYASHREE S BHAT
- Designation Professor
- Email Jayashree.bhat@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date
PhD, MSc (Sp & Hg), MA (Psy)
41yrs
Clinical & Rehab Audiology, Childhood and adult communication disorders, Dysphagia, Cognitive communication disorders
- Founder principal of Taranga School for the Hearing Impaired Shivamogga and Bhadravathy
- Initiated Learning Disability movement in Mangalore at 10 schools with financial support from Corporation Bank
- Initiated Parent child intervention center in Mangalore
- Founder Head of the department of Audiology Speech Language Pathology KMC Mangalore
- Guided more than 60 PG thesis related to Audiology Speech Language Pathology
- Guided more than 20 PG thesis in related fields like ENT, Pediatrics, Dental, Neurology, and Engineering
- Guided/guiding more than 20 PhD thesis
- Initiated cochlear implant program in Mangalore
- Published more than 100 research papers in journals
- Published 5 books
- Procured more than 10 research grants from Government of India
- Presented scientific papers in National as well as international forums
- Bagged many awards for scientific papers
Research
ISHA, RCI, DLA, KPMARC
Dr. DEEPTHI K J
- Designation Professor
- Email deepthi@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date 03-09-2018
- Ph.D (Speech Language Pathology)
- Masters in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology
- B.Sc (Speech and Hearing) Advanced Certified Lactation Professional Qualified Orofacial Myologist
14 years
- Congenital Craniofacial Anamolies
- Neonatal Dysphagia Management
- Founder and In-charge of Lactation and Feeding Consultation Unit for Special Children (LFCU-SC) which is One and First of its kind in India catering to Lactation, Feeding and Dysphagia challenges in Neonates and Infants with Congenital Craniofacial Anamolies (like Cleft) and infants with other special needs.
- 1st Prize in Delegate Prize Paper (Speech) in INDOCLEFTCON 2022, organized by Indian Society of Cleft Lip, Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies.
- Best Teacher Award in 2022 by Nitte Deemed to be University on the occasion of Teachers Day. Invited as Resource person for various National and International Conferences, Seminars and Workshops. Authored Chapters in Books, Monographs and Journal publication.
- All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) Nodal Officer
- National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC): Nodal Officer
- Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA) Nodal Officer
- Member: Board of Studies for Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, Mangalore University Member: Board of Studies for Speech and Hearing, Nitte Deemed to be University
- Women's Harassment Cell: President
- Rehabilitation Counsel of India CRR A14044
- Indian Speech and Hearing Association - L17123148
- Association of Lactation Professionals of India (ALPI) - L154
- Qualified Orofacial Myologist QOM 199
DR. YASHOMATHI
- Designation Associate Professor
- Email Yashomathi.sahadev@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date
- Ph.D (Speech Language Pathology)
- Masters in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology
- B.Sc (Speech and Hearing)
13 years
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
- Sign Language
- Child Language Disorders
Authored Chapters in Books and Journal publication.
- Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) coordinator
- Member: Board of Studies for Speech and Hearing, Nitte Deemed to be University
- PG Class coordinator
- Teaching BASLP, M.Sc. SLP students, Guiding Dissertation, Patient consultation, Therapy case supervision
- Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI), CRR no. - 67621
- Life Member of Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA) - L11071351
DR. SRUSHTI SHABNAM
- Designation Associate Professor
- Email srushti.shabnam@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date
Ph.D. (Speech Language Pathology)
9 years
Voice disorders, Motor Speech Disorders, Feeding issues in children with neurodevelopmental disorder
Journal Club coordinator, Institute innovation club coordinator, Teaching BASLP, M.Sc. SLP students, Guiding Dissertation, Patient consultation, Therapy case supervision
- Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) CRR No. A45027
- Life Member of Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA) - L15082519
DR LAKSHMI M S
- Designation Associate Professor
- Joining date
Dr. Thejaswi D
- Designation Associate Professor
- Email thejaswi.d@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date
MASLP, Ph.D
- Best Paper Presentation at International Dysphagia Conclave, Jaipur in 2025
- Best Oral Paper Presentation – Speech & Swallow category at National Conference on Aging, Mangalore in 2023
- Best Poster Presentation at International Dysphagia Conclave, Goa in 2023
- Dr. PM Bhat Award – Speech Language oral category at FOCUS -2 Mullers SHCON in 2022
- Best Scientific Paper – Poster category at Nitte Voice Assessment and Therapeutics, Mangalore in 2018
- Dr. Raghunathan Memorial Award at ISACON, Mysuru in 2018
- Teacher of the Year by Nitte Institute of Speech and Hearing in 2017
- Researcher of the Year by Nitte Institute of Speech and Hearing in 2016
- Best Platform Paper Presentation Award – Speech Language Pathology at Kerala State Branch-Indian Speech and Hearing Association, Wayanad in 2015
- Dr. BM Abrol Award at 45th ISHACON, Chennai in 2013
- Best Outgoing Student by Nitte Institute of Speech and Hearing in 2012
- First Best Platform Presentation at Kerala State Branch-Indian Speech and Hearing Association, Kottayam in 2012
- Dr. BM Brol Award at 43rd ISHACON, Kolkata in 2011
- Dodderi, T., Dsouza, S. W., Dsouza, V. M., Balasubramanium, R. K., & Kothari, M. (2026). Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Swallowing and Dysphagia: A Cross‐Sectional Survey Among the Community Dwelling Adults of South India. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 61(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.70273
- Dodderi, T., Chua, D. M. N., Chan, K. M. K., Balasubramanium, R. K., & Kothari, M. (2025). Principles of neural plasticity and motor learning in swallowing exercise protocols for older adults: A mapping review. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/17549507.2025.2573336
- Chilwan, U., Kumar, K. V., Karuppali, S., Aithal, V. U., Dodderi, T., Shameer, S., & Balasubramanium, R. K. (2025). Prevalence Of Swallow Fatigue and its Relationship with Self-Reported Swallowing Difficulties Among Community Dwelling Older Adults in the Indian Population. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 102034. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2025.102034
- Aseef, A., Dodderi, T., Muthukumar, V., Krishnamurthy, R., Balasubramanium, R., & Kothari, M. (2024). Test of Mastication and Swallowing Solids in Healthy Individuals Aged 6 to 20 Years: A Normative Study in an Indian Context. Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, 51 (9), 1839-1847. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joor.13741
- Dodderi, T., Sreenath, D., Shetty, M. J., Chilwan, U., Rai, S. P., Moolambally, S. R., Kumar, R. K., & Kothari, M. (2024). Prevalence of Self-Reported Swallowing Difficulties and Swallowing-Related Quality of Life Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in India. Dysphagia, 39 (6), 1144-1155. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00455-024-10696-0
Dysphagia, Motor Speech Disorders in Adults, Introduction to Speech Language Pathology, Introduction to Speech and Swallowing, Bioethics
Dysphagia post stroke and in neurodegenerative disorders, neural plasticity, motor learning, exercise physiology, geriatrics, bioethics and research ethics
- Ambassador of Lancet Commission of Neurorehabilitation
- Member of the Nitte Bioethics Steering Committee
- Certified Modified Barium Swallow Impairment Profile clinician
- Certified VitalStim Plus clinician
- Certified in Manual Therapy for Voice and Swallowing Disorders
- Basic Life Support trained
MR. DHANANJAY RACHANA
- Designation Assistant professor
- Email Dhananjay.rachana@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date
BASLP, Master in Audiology
8 years
Audiology
Teaching and clinical
- Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) RCI-A44997
- Life Member of Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA) L16092822
MS BENNET ELSA JOSEPH
- Designation Assistant Professor
- Email bennetelsa@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date
M.ASLP
7.5 years
Voice and its disorders, Dysphagia, Adult neurocommunication disorders
- Clinical Fellowship in Laryngology for Speech Language Pathologist
- Teacher of the year NISH 2018
- Distinguished Teacher Award Nitte DU 2023
- Paper presentation award- 1
- Number of publication- 5
- Number of grants -1
- Alumni Co-ordinator
- Editor NISH 365
- Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) CRR No. A39028
- Lifetime membership of Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA) - L17092982
Ms Archana Rai S
- Designation Assistant Professor
- Email archana.rai@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date
BASLP, MASLP
- Archana Rai S. (2020) A survey on Awareness of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in Nurses. Paper presented at 52nd Annual Conference of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association – Chandigarh.
- Archana Rai S., Radish Kumar. (2016) Development of norms for Timed Test of swallowing from 8-80 years in the Indian Population. Paper presented at 48th annual convention of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association, Mumbai, India.
- Nireeksha Anchan., Archana. Rai. S, Arivudai. Nambi. (2015). Assessing Spectral And Temporal Processing In Children In Comparison With Adults Using Spectral Ripple Discrimination (SRD) And Iterated Ripple Noise (IRN) Perception. Paper presented at 48th annual convention of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association, Mumbai, India.
- Archana. Rai., Naema Laila., Parinitha.Shetty (2013). Frequency of Stages of Play Development In Typically Developing Indian Children a Comparison With Western Normative Data. Paper presented at 45th annual convention of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association, Mumbai, India.
- Nafeesathul Afeefa Osheen Mumtaz V Archana Rai S (2020). Awareness of Noise Induced hearing Loss amongst Professional Gym Instructors. Paper presented at 52nd Annual Conference of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association – Chandigarh.
Aural Rehabilitation in Children, Audiology in Practice, Introduction to Audiology, Vestibular System and its disorders
Diagnostic Audiology, Vestibular assessment and management
- Life member of Indian Speech & Hearing Association (ISHA) L15092594
- RCI membership number – A52437
Mr. JIM SAROJ WINSTON
- Designation Assistant Professor
- Email jim.saroj@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date
B.Sc Speech & Hearing, M.Sc Audiology
7 years
- Auditory evoked potentials
- Frequency Following Responses (FFR)
- Speech and music perception
- Vestibular assessment and management
- Best scientific paper under oral category at the Nitte Voice Assessment & Therapeutics Conference, held at Mangaluru during February 22-24, 2018
- Dr. M. Raghunathan Award for the Best Poster in Audiology. Paper presented at the 48th Annual Conference of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association, 2018, Mumbai, India
- Member, Anti-ragging committee
- NSS nodal officer
- Sports Advisor
- Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) CRR No. A52062
DR DARSHAN H S
- Designation Assistant Professor
- Email darshan.hs@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date
PhD in Speech Language Pathology
7 Years
Working Memory & Attention, Bi/Multilingualism; Aphasia
- Junior Research Fellowship from the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru to carry out Ph.D. research.
- Best Research Paper award for the research paper titled "Impact of aging on discourse genres: a comparative study" - conference on aging: Holistic perspectives on hearing, cognitive communication, voice and dysphagia- November 3rd and 4th, 2023, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India
- Best Research Paper award for the research paper titled "Bi-directional Lexical translational abilities in bilingual Malayalam-English young adults" - conference on speech language pathology and audiological practices- December 1st and 2nd, 2023, Father Muller College of Speech and Hearing, Mangalore, India
- Student Welfare Officer
- Class coordinator (Third BASLP)
- Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) CRR No. - A56535
- Life Member of Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA) - L18093288
Ms. AKHILA RAHUL
- Designation Assistant Professor
- Email akhila.rahul@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date 13-12-2021
M.Sc. Speech-Language Pathology (University of Mysore)
8 years
Feeding and swallowing mechanism in children, Voice disorders, Child language disorders
Level I Certification Oral Placement Therapy
- Internship Coordinator
- Staff In-charge Electoral Literacy Club
- RCI CRR: A56431
- ISHA Life Membership: L17123155
MR PRAJWAL KUMAR E
- Designation Assistant Professor
- Email Prajwal.kumar@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date
M. Sc in Audiology
3years, 8 months
Speech perception, Diagnostic audiology, auditory perception and Electrophysiology
- Best oral presentation award, NI-VEMP conference Mangalore and Aging conference KMC Mangalore.
- Best poster presentation NI-VEMP
- Youth red cross society program officer
- CPC incharge
- Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) no: A60064
- Life Member of Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA) membership: L19093576
MS SWATI GOYAL
- Designation Assistant Professor
- Email swati.goyal@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date
M. Sc (Audiology)
3.8 years
Psychoacoustics, Diagnostic Audiology
2 oral best paper awards
Clinical Conference Co-ordinator
- Rehabilitation Council of India CRR No. A60204
- Life Member at Indian Speech and Hearing Association - L22094301
MS HALEEM MEHAZABEEN ULLAL
- Designation Audiologist G-I
- Email haleem.mehazabeen@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date 01-08-2024
Master of Science in Audiology
Cochlear Implant, Vestibular, Diagnostic Audiology.
CRR Number: A81169 rn
MS YAKSHITHA B M
- Designation Audiologist G-I
- Joining date
MSc in Audiology
2 years
Diagnostic audiology, Hearing aid, vestibular
CRR No.A73206
Kalyani AV
- Designation Clinical Supervisor Grade 1/Lecturer
- Email .
- Joining date 14-10-2026
MSc SLP
10 Months
Aphasia, Stuttering, LD,CLD
- Received the Best Paper Award (Poster Category) for the study titled “Bi-directional lexical translational abilities in bilingual Malayalam-English young adults” at the RCI-CRE approved national-level conference FOCUS-3.
- Received the Best Paper Award (Oral Category) for the study titled “Narrative production abilities in early bilingual Kannada-English school-going children: A preliminary study” at the RCI-CRE approved national-level conference FOCUS-4.
Akanksha Tiwari
- Designation Speech Pathologist Grade 1/ Lecturer
- Email akanksha.tiwari@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date 03-08-2026
MSc. SLP
Adult Language disorder, Cognitive communication disorder, Dysphagia, Voice disorder
Clinical Supervision
RCI registered, ISHA life Member
SWATHI SHETTY
- Designation Speech Language Pathologist G-II
- Email .
- Joining date
Bachelor in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology
9 Years
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Clinical Supervisor (Speech Language pathology)
Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) - CRR No. A83169
Ms. Praneetha
- Designation Audiologist G-II
- Email praneetha.kadumata@nitte.edu.in
- Joining date
B.ASLP
Assessment, diagnosis, early intervention, and rehabilitation of hearing and speech disorders, Community-based hearing and speech-language outreach programs
Attending an outreach program at Lions Club Bantwal and Chethana Special School Manglore providing speech and language assessments and therapy, Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT) and counseling.
