Fully funded by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India; the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) was set up in 1965 as an autonomous institute for imparting technical knowledge and conducting research and rendering clinical services for communication disorders such as speech or hearing impairment, language disorders, etc.
Starting out with just one post graduate course in 1965, the institute now encompasses a wide range of courses; starting from diplomas to PhD and post doctoral courses and research. The AIISH is run by an Executive Council, with the Honourable Union minister of Health and family welfare as chairman and the Honourable Minister of Health and family welfare, Government of Karnataka as the Vice Chairman.
Equipped with state of the art technology and infrastructure, the AIISH campus encompasses 32 acres and is adjacent to the University of Mysore. AIISH efforts and contribution of the last 45 years in the fields of speech education and audiology has been widely lauded both at home and abroad, with the World Health Organization (WHO) recognizing the institute as a centre of excellence in the area of deafness.
Courses Offered
- Certificate course on communication disorders
- Diploma in Hearing Aid & Earmould Technology (DHA &ET)
- Diploma in Training Young Hearing Impaired Children (DTYHIC)
- Diploma in Hearing, Language and Speech (DHLS) – Through distance mode
- B.Sc (Speech and Hearing)
- Bachelor of Special Education B. S. Ed (HI)
- PG Diploma in Clinical Linguistics for SLP (PGDCLP)
- PG Diploma in Forensic Speech Sciences & Technology (PGDFSST)
- M.Sc (Audiology)
- M.Sc (Speech – Language Pathology)
- Master in Special Education M. S. Ed (HI)
- Ph. D (Audiology)
- Ph. D (Speech-Language Pathology)
- Post Doctoral Fellowship
Short-term Training Programs
- Audiometers/Audiogram
- Audiological tests
- Basic Anatomy and Physiology of the Auditory system
- Immittance Evaluation
- Evoked Repose Audiometry
- Insertion gain measurement
- Auditory Training/Learning
- Speech Reading/Communication training
- Setting up classrooms for the hearing impaired
- Hearing Aids
- Causes of hearing loss
- Assistive listening devices
- Hearing aid care and trouble shooting
- Mainstreaming the hearing impaired
- Earmold and its modifications
- Electroacoustic measurements of hearing aids
- Early identification of hearing disorders
- Electrophysiological measures of the ear
- Hearing aids and aural rehabilitation
- Audiovisual course in noise measurement and hearing conservation
- Biomedical instrumentation in Speech and Hearing
- Repair, servicing and Electro-acoustic evaluation of body level hearing aids
- Repair, servicing and Electro-acoustic evaluation of BTE hearing aids
- Neural basis of communication disorders
- Assessment and rehabilitation of disorders of oral-pharyngeal function (dysphasia) and related disorders
- Assessment, selection, and development of augmentative and alternative communication systems and the provision of training for their use
- Cognitive linguistic rehabilitation for adult and childhood neurogenic communication disorders
- Assessment and management of fluency disorders
- Assessment and management of voice disorders including Laryngectomy
- Assessment and management of phonological disorders
- Diagnosis and rehabilitation of speech and language in stroke patients
- Speech and language development of the hearing impaired child
- Assessment and management of speech and language disorders in children with mental retardation
- Assessment and management of speech and language in Autism Spectrum disorders
- Assessment and management of speech and language disorders in Cerebral palsy
- Assessment and management of speech motor disorders in children and adults
- Improving spoken language comprehension
- Ethical issue in Speech language pathology
- Guidance for community based rehabilitation of speech language disability
- PWD act and its relevance to speech and language disability
- Guidance for establishing Speech Language clinic
- Identification and management of learning disability
- Assessment and management of stroke and TBI patients
- Sensory integration therapy for autistic spectral disorders
- Early identification and prevention of communication disorders
- Facilities available for communication disorders
- Know how a normal child develops speech and Language
- Parental counseling and counselling for identification and prevention of speech and language disorders
- Home training programs for different speech language disorders
- Speech production
- Development of speech and language
- Normal aspects of voice
- Normal aspects of articulation
- Normal aspects of fluency
- Normal aspects of prosody
- Test of stress and rhythm
- Instrumentation in speech
- Acoustics of speech
- Spectrography
Admission Process
The admission for the various offered courses is determined by both admission tests and also on the basis of merit in the qualifying exam. Nationwide admission tests are conducted for some of the courses such as the BSc in speech and hearing. Interested candidates have to meet prescribed minimum eligibility criteria and also must have studied the related subjects required for the individual courses.
For more details about the courses, eligibility criteria, duration etc; interested candidates may visit :
https://aiishmysore.in/en/index.html
https://aiishmysore.in/en/academic_course14.html
Address
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH); Mysore;
Naimisham Campus, Road No.3, T K Layout, Manasagangothri, Mysuru, Karnataka 570006
Ph: 0821 250 2100