Gauri Mankekar

Assistant Professor

Department of Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery, Louisiana State University Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.

Latest Contribution

Impaired music perception in children with specific language impairment

1 July 2016 | | children, music, specific language impairment (SLI)

This study compares musical skills of children with typical language development with those of children with specific language impairment. Both groups received a test consisting of a melody and a song identification along with a test battery to assess receptive...

Radiosurgery for large vestibular schwannomas

1 July 2016 |

The authors conducted a retrospective study of patients with large Koos grade 4 vestibular schwannomas undergoing gamma knife radiosurgery. A total of 68 patients with tumour size greater than 4 cm3 with baseline serviceable 60% hearing who received 12 Gray...

Working with clients of communication disorders from culturally and linguistically diverse populations

1 May 2016 | | cross-cultural, cross-linguistic, family, school-aged children, speech and language therapists

Speech language therapists (SLTs) deliver evidence based services worldwide for communication disorders to culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) populations. They have to modify their approaches and tailor them to the needs of their students / patients. This article studies the...