Mysuru: The students and faculty of JSS Institute of Speech and Hearing, M.G. Road, here have bagged four Best Paper Presentation Awards out of ten at the 51st National-level Convention of Indian Speech and Hearing Association held at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, recently.

Dr. Apeksha Kumari received Dr. M. Raghunath Memorial Award for her Best Paper in Audiology titled “Effect of Acoustic Features on Discrimination Ability in Individuals with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorders” while Sanjana Madhukesh, K. Kruthika and Saransh Jain received Manohar Memorial Award for their paper “The Relationship between Temporal Integration and Auditory Stream Segregation Abilities in Younger and Older Adults.” Sowmya Mahesh and Dr. R. Manjula received Shaila Vora Memorial Award for their Best Language Poster “Perception of Adjectives by Adults with Visual Impairment and Abstract Representation.”  Niha Fatima, A. Priyanka and Dr. R. Manjula won Manohar Memorial Award for Best Paper in Speech “Perception and use of Slang Vocabulary in Kannada Language: Comparison of Young and Older Adults.”