Dr Gopee Krishnan

Associate Professor Senior Scale

Department of Speech and Hearing

CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

    Dr Gopee Krishnan is an Associate Professor Senior Scale in the Department of Speech and Hearing at MCHP, Manipal.

    He:

    • Supervises, assesses and manages people with communication disorders.
    • Offers services to the clients at the outpatient department of Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, and TMA Pai Hospital, Udupi.
    • Serves as a member of the Institutional Research Committee of MCHP.
    • Member - Center for Comprehensive Stroke Research and Rehabilitation
    • Member – Expert Group on Aphasia of Indian Academy of Neurology
    • Advisor – Special Interest Group on Aphasia of Indian Speech and Hearing Association

    Current academic role & responsibilities

    • Teaching: Undergraduate, Post Graduate 
    • Class – coordinator (III semester MSLP) 
    • Guides: Conferences/ paper presentation /Dissertations/ Phd thesis

SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING

Subject Semester / Year
Speech Sound Disorders Third semester BASLP
Motor Speech Disorders in Adults VI Semester BASLP
Neurology II Semester BASLP
Aphasia III Semester MSc Speech-Language Pathology

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Degree Specialisation Institute Year of passing
Ph.D Acquired Neurogenic Language Disorders Manipal University 2012
MSc Speech and Hearing All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, University of Mysore 2004
BSc Speech & Hearing Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science 1999

Experience

Institution / Organisation Designation Role Tenure
Manipal College of Health Professions (MAHE), Manipal Associate Professor (Senior Scale) Clinical In-charge of NeuroCommunication Disorders Unit; · Teaching faculty; · Student Research Mentor (PhD; PG; & UG) 2019 to till date
Dept. of Speech & Hearing, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal Associate Professor 2010 to 2019
Manipal Academy of Higher Education Assistant Professor 2007 to 2010
Manipal Academy of Higher Education Lecturer 2004 tp 2007
Institute for Cognitive and Communicative Neuroscience, Shornur, Kerala Lecturer Lecturing · Clinical Management of clients with speech-language disorders 2001-2002
All India Institute of Speech & Hearing (AIISH), Mysore Speech-Language Pathologist Clinical Supervisor 1999-2001

Ongoing Gopee Krishnan; Shivani Tiwari; Aparna Pai; Apoorva Pauranik

 ICMR funded project on the application of mixed (augmented + virtual) reality in aphasia rehabilitation

Principal Investigator

Visual Word Processing in Alphasyllabic Orthography

Ongoing Gopee Krishnan; Shivani Tiwari

DST-funded project on visual word processing in alphasyllabic orthography.

Principal Investigator

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in the Rehabilitation of Bilingual Aphasia

Ongoing Gopee Krishnan; Shivani Tiwari; Girish Menon

DST-funded project on the application of tDCS in the rehabilitation of bilingual persons with aphasia

Principal Investigator

Eyeing on autism: The eye-gaze based early detection of children with autism spectrum disorder

Ongoing Shivani Tiwari; Gopee Krishnan

DST-funded project on the early detection of children with ASD.

Co-Investigator

AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

Area of Interest

Cognitive linguistics; Orthography; Bilingualism; Cognitive ageing

Area of Expertise

Aphasia; Acquired neurogenic communication disorders

Area of Research

Linguistic impairments in aphasia; Rehabilitation of Aphasia; Orthographic processing in the brain

Professional Affiliations & Contributions

 

Professional Affiliations

  • Life member of Rehabilitation Council of India
  • Life member of Indian Speech and Hearing Association
  • Life member of Kerala State Chapter of Indian Speech and Hearing Association.
  • Member of the Expert Group on Aphasia of Indian Academy of Neurology
  • Advisor to the Special Interest Group on Aphasia of Indian Speech and Hearing Association
  • President of the Kerala State Branch of Indian Speech and Hearing (KSB-ISHA) (2012-2015)
  • Editor of Journal of Indian Speech and Hearing Association (JISHA) (2014-2016)

 

Reviewer of the journals/conferences:

  • International Journal of Speech-language pathology and audiology
  • Journal of Indian Speech and Hearing Association (Ad-hoc)
  • ISHACON – Annual conference of Indian Speech and Hearing Association

Additional Information

  • Fetched two potential research grants worth Rs. 7.5 million from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India.

Language non-specific lexical activation in bilinguals: Evidence from orthographically dissimilar languages

2009-01-01 Prarthana Shivabasappa

2007-2009. This study investigated aimed to investigate the nature of activation of languages in bilingual speakers through the phoneme monitoring task. The results indicated that while retrieving words in one language, the non-target languages get activated.

A standardised set of 260 pictures in Kannada: Norms for name agreement, familiarity, visual complexity, and image agreement

2009-01-01 Wasim Ahmed

2007-2009. This study developed a standardised set of 260 pictures in Kannada. These pictures may be used for various psychological and linguistic investigations with precision based on its rating on several psycholinguistic variables.

Adaptation and validation of stroke-aphasia quality of life (SAQOL-39) to Kannada

2012-01-01 Kiran S

2011-2012. This study provided a culturally and linguistically adapted version of the widely used SAQOL-39 to Kannada, to measure the quality of life in people with aphasia.

Clustering and switching in verbal fluency in bilinguals

2012 Jane

Time-extended verbal fluency in Konkani-English bilinguals.

2012 Diana

Effect of literacy on P300 and MMN

2014 Aditi Modi

Guide

Development of a short version of Bilingual Aphasia Test in Malayalam.

2014 Reema Elsa Mathew

Guide

Normative data on Linguistic Profile Test in Kannada-speaking elderly population: A comparison of literates and non-literates.

2017 Reema Pujari

Guide

Adaptation and validation of SAQOL-39 to Malayalam

2014 Ria Raju

Guide

Adaptation and validation of SAQOL-39 to Hindi.

2014 Ishita Mitra

Guide

Effect of nonword training on working memory skills in older adults.

2017 Neethi Narendran

Guide

Normative data on Linguistic Profile Test in Malayalam-speaking elderly population: A comparison of literates and non-literates.

2017 Kiran Roy

Guide

Visual word recognition using abstract and concrete primes in Kannada.

2018 Nithyashree

Guide

Effect of phonological awareness training in poor readers: ERP evidence from a single subject A-B-A design.

2016 Prakruthi Udupa

Guide

Semantic priming versus form priming in Kannada-speaking young adults.

2018 Hamshi G.

Guide

Literacy-based norms for revised Western Aphasia Battery in Kannada.

2018 Sameeksha Ravi Shetty

Guide

Adaptation of Return to Work questionnaire from English to Kannada

2018 Amulya Raghava

Guide

Influence of gender on short term semantic memory.

2018 Sharel Noronha

Guide

Difference Limen of intensity and frequency in individuals with Type II Diabetes Mellitus.

2018 Aswathi Anna Reji

Guide

Development of a lexical database in Kannada

2018 Deekshitha

Guide

Development of an android application in Kannada to enhance picture naming skills in persons with aphasia.

2019 Rajath Shenoy

Guide

Development and validation of a short version of PALPA in Hindi

2020 Lakshmi

Guide

Development and validation of a short version of PALPA in Malayalam.

2020 Imthiaz

Guide

Neuroplastic changes associated with novel sound-letter learning in young adults: An ERP study in an alphasyllabic orthography.

2021 Sanjana Hebbar

Guide

Role of phonology in bilingual visual word recognition: Evidence from a translated and transliterated masked priming ERP study.

2021 Adhvika Shetty

Guide

Investigating the evidence for sub-lexical dyslexia in semi-syllabic orthography.

2019 Kiran S.

Phd Guide

Prevalence of visual stress and role of orthography on reading performance among bilingual children with and without dyslexia.

2019. Krithica S.

PhD Co-guide

Exploring the nature of dysfluencies through cortical stimulation in bilinguals with stuttering.

On-going Chanchal Chaudhary.

Phd Guide

Efficacy of auditory-based cognitive training on memory functions in elderly with mild cognitive impairment.

On-going Priya G.

PhD Guide

Efficacy of a smartphone-based program for training naming skills in people with aphasia: A single-case experimental design series.

On-going Rajath Shenoy.

PhD Guide

Effect of a morphosyntactic training program and anodal transcranial direct current stimulation in treating Kannada case markers in persons with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia.

On-going Rashmi J.

Phd Guide

Development and validation of a syntactic assessment and treatment protocol for post-stroke agrammatism in Kannada.

On-going Wasim Ahmed.

PhD guide