Screening for learning disability
Culturally fitted tests for Malayalam-medium classrooms — conjunct consonants, vowel diacritics, mirror writing — rather than translated Western batteries.
Educational psychologist · Kozhikode
Thirty-five years with children who learn differently.
I teach, write, and run clinics for students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and hearing impairment. Most of that work has been in Kerala — first in special schools, then at the university.
Dean & Director, AWH College of Education, Feroke. Formerly Director, Institute of Research in Learning Disabilities, M.G. University. Chairman, Kerala Sign Language Academy.
- 35+
- years in the field
- 85+
- research papers
- 16
- books, two languages
- 11
- degrees and diplomas
Present work
Appointments
On the desk
What I work on
Braille and tactile literacy
Author of BRAILLE: The Eye Opener of the Blind. The Braille Research Centre grew out of that book: teaching methods, not gadgets.
Sign language in the family
How deaf children, their parents, and hearing classmates actually talk to one another — and what schools do with that fact.
Training
Qualifications
Psychology, education, special pedagogy, counselling. The diplomas are the practical half — the clinic and the classroom, not only the thesis.
Doctoral
Ph.D.
Special Education & Cognitive Studies
M.Phil.
Educational Psychology & Research
Masters
M.Sc.
Applied Psychology
M.A.
Psychology
M.Ed.
Curriculum & Pedagogy
M.AE
Adult Education & Rehabilitation
Diplomas
B.Sp.Ed.
Inclusive & Special Education
PGDEC
Educational Counselling
PGDSE
Special Education
PGDC
Psychological & Family Counselling
PGDAE
Adult Education
Inclusive education is not a classroom adjustment. It is the older idea that a child who learns differently is still owed the same dignity, and the same chance, as any other.
Institutions looking for a lecture, a screening clinic, or a second reader on a thesis can write in the ordinary way.