PGI don gets CIGI award

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 6

An Asst Professor (Speech & Hearing), Department of ENT, PGI, Dr N Banumathy, has won the CIGI Award for her research paper on “Development and acquisition of pragmatic skills in paediatric cochlear implants” at CIGICON 2018, held in Daman.

She has won the award for second time consecutively for her research in prelingual and post lingual cochlear implant (CI) users. The research paper aimed to investigate development and acquisition of pragmatic skills in paediatric CI users. Pragmatic deficits pose a great challenge in development of language in children with hearing impairment. The research proves that there is a need for intensive pragmatic stimulation during rehabilitation for the betterment of long term outcomes of cochlear implantation.