JOIN USDr S R Savithri who was holding the additional charge of the post of director of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) has been appointed as director of the institute by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. She is an alumnus of the institute.
She completed her undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph D (speech and hearing) degree from the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Manasagangothri.
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She was also awarded the Vidwat degree in Naveena Nyaya (Sanskrit) by the Karnataka Board in 1978.
She has over 25 years of experience in teaching undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students.
She is a professor in speech sciences and the director currently.
Her special areas of interest include speech production, speech and language perception, suprasegmentals, fluency and prosody.
She has guided 75 masters and 11 doctoral students for their dissertations and thesis.