ISHACon 2026

57th Annual Conference of Indian Speech Language and Hearing Association

Innovations Beyond Boundaries
Common
Audiology
Speech and Language
Poster Area

DAY : 1

30th January 2026

Time Hall - A Hall - B Poster Area
07:30 AM - 08:45 AM Breakfast at Hall-C and Registration at Desk
08:45 AM - 09:00 AM Welcome Note
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM Key Note talk : Innovating Across Borders: Towards a Common Framework for Instrumental Voice Assessment and New Advances : Rita Patel
Chairperson: Prakash Bhoominathan, M.D. Dholakia
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM Plenary Session - Shaping the Future of Hearing Care: Responsibilities and Vision of EFAS : Vinay Swarnalatha Nagaraj
Chairperson: Ballachanda Bopanna, Rashmi J. Bhat
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Inauguration and oration citation
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Tea / Coffee break and networking
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Deficit-Specific Intervention in Pediatric Central Auditory Processing Disorder: A Evidence-Based Approach: Prawin Kumar
Chairperson:C.S. Vanaja, Chandrahas Chandan
Will the neurodiversity movement for stuttering make speech therapy redundant? : Pallavi Kelkar
Chairperson: Santosh M. , Tasneem Manasawala
Poster Session- Speech, Language and Audiology
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM CBT basic principle and application for tinnitus : Indranil Chatterjee
Chairperson: Satish K. , Durga prasad
Expanding Scope of Practice in Deglutology : Prasanna Hegde
Chairperson: Swapna N. , Nikita Kirane
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM Sponsored session - Platinum sponsor : WE Hear Pvt. Ltd. (15 minutes) & Gold Sponsor : Starkey Laboratory India Pvt. Ltd. (10 minutes)
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Break and networking
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM Panel Discussion : Over the counter hearing aid opportunity or threat
Moderator : Daniel Johnas & Sanket Mehta
Panelist : MD of 4 major sponsor company
Panel Discussion : Autism : Current practices, supports, and challenges in speechlanguage pathology
Moderator : Anjana Sathyabodha
Panelist :Sucheta Kamath Sundaresan R., Chandrima Chakraborty, Sahana Muralikrishna
Poster Session- Speech, Language and Audiology
02:45 PM - 03:30 PM Round Table : “Cutting Edge Advances in Hearing Restoration”
Moderator : Ranjith Rajeswaran
Panelist : Sanjay Munjal, Prem Ranjan, Nikhil Mathur, Priyanjali Harit
Panel Discussion : Voice Management in Professional Voice users
Moderator : Namita Joshi & Vivek Kumar
Panelist : PrakashBoominathan, Rita Patel &Vrushali Desai
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Revisiting diagnostic audiological test battery : Relevance in current times : Deepa Valame
Chairperson: Srinivas Ganji, Navneet Gupta
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Oral platform presentation Speech and Language
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM Integrating Aided Cortcal Evoked Potentials into Cochlear Implant Candidacy Evaluation : C. S. Vanaja
Chairperson: P. Manjula, Archana G.
04:30 PM - 05:15 PM Panel Discussion : Early intervention and beyond: unmet needs and challenges in Pediatric cochlear implant users
Moderator : Shweta Deshpande
Panelist :Anuradha Sharma, Chandni Jain, Pooja Behera, Gaurav Patil
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM Audiology Oral platform presentation
Free Evening (Tentatively)

DAY : 2

31th January 2026

Time Hall - A Hall - B Poster Area
07:30 AM - 08:45 AM Breakfast at Hall-C and Registration at Desk
09:00 AM - 9:45 AM Plenary Session : “My Future Self: Improving Executive Function with the neuroscience of mental time travel: Motivational science & Science of Learning HOW to Learn”-Sucheta Kamath
Chairperson: Maya Sanghi , S.P. Goswami
09:45 AM - 10:15 AM Oration Presentation - Dr. N. Rathna Oration(Lakshmi Venkatesh)
Chairperson: President, Secretary
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Panel Discussion : Private Practice Road to Entrepreneurship
Moderator : Kalyani Mandke
Panelist : Avinash, Ram Pravesh, Meenakshi Wadhera, Rashmi Deshpande
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Oration Presentation :-Padmashree Prof. S. Kameswaran Endowment Oration(Rashmi J. Bhat)
Chairperson: President, Secretary
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM Tea / Coffee Break and Networking
11:40 AM - 12:10 PM Oration Presentation :-Prof. R.K. Oza Oration(Gurmeet Kaur Bachher)
Chairperson: President, Secretary
12:10 PM - 12:30 PM Sponsored Session :-Diamond sponsor : Auditivo hearing Pvt. Ltd. (12 minutes) & Silver Sponsor : Labat Asia Pvt. Ltd.(8 minutes)
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM Affordable Innovation in Audiology: Tailoring Protocols for Modern Audiology Practice Using Readily Available Hardwareand Free Software : A. Nambi
Chairperson: Srikanth M.A. , Noorain Alam
Oral platform presentation Speech and Language Poster Session- Speech, Language and Audiology
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch Break and Networking
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM Telehealth/ tele rehab global trends and how they are shaping the future of our field. (speech and language) : Pratiksha Gupta
Chairperson: Sanjay Kumar, Devangi Dalal
Oral platform presentation Speech and Language Poster Session- Speech, Language and Audiology
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM Multimodal approaches in the management of Neurogenic Dysphagia : Swapna N.
Chairperson: Venkataraja Aithal U , Banumathy
Oral platform presentation Audiology
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Phonological assessment & intervention in bilingual/multilingual children: N. Sreedevi
Chairperson: Savitha V H, Ramesh Oza
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Rehabilitation of Syntax and Pragmatics in Post-Stroke Aphasia: Clinical Research Insights and Applications of Natural Language Processing: Wasim Ahmed
Chairperson: Mohanmurthy Ghantasala, Akanksha Gupta
Improving Signal to Noise Ratio in noisy electrophysiological scenarios : Srikar V.
Chairperson: Chandan Saha , Shivraj Bhimte
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM Tea / Coffee Break and Networking
04:15 PM - 06:30PM GBM and Election
07:00 PM Cultural night and Banquet

DAY : 3

1th February 2026

Time Hall - A Hall - B
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Breakfast at Hall-C
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM Construction of Language Test in Indian Languages - Need of the Hour..! Jyoti Mohite
Chairperson: S.P. Goswami, Abhishek BP
Hidden Hearing Loss : Nilesh Wasnik
Chairperson: Asha Yathiraj, Meenakshi Wadhera
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM Response to Intervention(RTI): A TechnologySupported Cognitive Linguistic Model for Learning Disability in Children : Jayashree C. Shanbal
Chairperson: Sanjay Kumar Rohtak, Krupa M
Vestibular Test : In Audiologist Perspective : Sujeet Kumar Sinha
Chairperson: Kumar Gourav Sharma, Rawish Kumar
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Panel Discussion : Advocacy and policy making : shaping future of ASLP
Moderator : S P Goswami
Panelist : Suman Kumar, Mohd Sahidul Arefin & Sameer P.
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Tea / Coffee Break and Networking
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Discussion : A session on international society of audiology as an affiliate society of ISHA and all the measures taken to include low middle income countries
Moderator : Vidya Ramkumar
Panelist :Dr. Astrid (President of ISA), Subramaniyan B., ISHA EC (Secretary/ president)
Executive Function Immersive: Do to Know to Learn Sucheta Kamath
Chairperson: N. Sreedevi, Aparna Nandurkar
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Integrating case history and test battery findings for vestibular findings : Dr Soorya Pradeep
Chairperson: Pravesh Sampath , Nilambar Behera
Current Research Trends in the Clinical Application of Discourse Analysis for Adults with Communication Disorders : Hema N.
Chairperson: Arun Banik, Ravi Patel
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Newborn hearing screening current scenario in India. Have we achieved it.? Are we there?
Moderator : Banumathy N.
Panelists: Dr Ashish Mehta (Senior neonatologist), Jayesh Solanki (state nodal officer of NPPCD, Gujarat), Pachaiappan Chandrasekaran, Indira CP
Panel Discussion: “Comprehensive cleft care – How and where does the SLP fit in?”
Moderator:Savitha V H
Panelist: Roopa Nagarajan, Gopi Shankar R., Subramaniyan B.
12:45 PM - 01:15 PM Technology as “tool” to reach services versus technology as a service : Vidya Ramkumar
Chairperson: Nirnay Kesari, Gaurav Patil
Understanding and nurturing Gestalt Language Processing : Mansi Karnad
Chairperson: Vijay Kumar, Priya MB
01:15 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Break and networking
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM Valedictory