Gauri Mankekar

Assistant Professor

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

Latest Contribution

Voice issues in transgender individuals

1 September 2015 | | female-to-male transgender, female-to-male transsexual, gender diversity, voice, voice problem, voice treatment

Recently, former decathlete and TV personality, Bruce Jenner, admitted that he is transgender, thereby becoming the most famous and vocal advocate for transgender issues. Transgender refers to female to male or male to female identification. In either case, voice modification...

Gum as a thickening agent in dysphagia management

1 September 2015 |

Foods and fluids are commonly thickened with starch based thickeners in the management of dysphagia to prevent aspiration. Now gums are gaining popularity as thickeners as they are resistant to salivary amylase. This study compared the effect of human saliva...

Swahili speech development in pre-school children

1 September 2015 | | Swahili, Tanzania, normative data, phonetic inventory, phonological development, speech

This study describes the speech development of 24 typically developing first language Swahili speaking children between the ages of three and five years 11 months in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and was motivated by the 2013 position paper drafted by...