Mysuru: The Mysuru Chapter of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association (MyISHA) will be hosting the Golden Jubilee Conference of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA) from Jan. 5 to 7 at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) in city.

The 50th Annual Convention of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association [50th ISHACON] will be inaugurated by Governor Vajubhai R. Vala on Jan. 5 at 6.15 pm at AIISH Gymkhana, Bogadi Road. Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar will be the guest of honour.  

The conference will be attended by over 2,000 Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists from India and abroad.

The scientific session will start with a homage to the Founders of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association. Dr. N. Rathna, Prof. Ramesh Oza and Dr. Shailaja Nikam, signatories to the Memorandum of Association of ISHA, in 1967 will reminisce about the Golden Era of ISHA. Other senior members of the Association, Dr. N.P. Nataraja, Dr. M. Jayaram and Dr. N. Shivashankar will also be addressing the delegates.

The deliberations and discussions during this conference will add a wealth of knowledge to the participants who will learn about state-of-the-art techniques in diagnosis and rehabilitation of communication problems.

Experts will deliver lectures on diverse topics such as language recovery in Aphasia, paediatric feeding disorders and intervention, professional voice management, motor speech disorders in neuro-developmental syndromes, dead regions of the cochlea, clinical applications of OAE, cross check principles in Diagnostic Audiology, certification of disability and funding opportunities for aids and appliances.

Prior to the conference, six workshops are scheduled on  Jan. 4 to enable the delegates to get in-depth hands-on training on specific topics.

Around 50 stalls will be put-up by different companies related to speech and hearing exhibiting their products and recent technical advances. The vision document will be released as part of the conference.

Dr. Asha Yathiraj, Professor of Audiology, AIISH, is the Organising Chairperson and Dr. S.P. Goswami, Professor of Speech-Language Pathology, AIISH, is the Organising Secretary of the 50th ISHACON. For details, visit www.ishacon.com