Mrs. L.d. Ileperuma

Biography

Mrs. L.D. Ileperuma is working as an Lecturer in the Department of Disability Studies, University of Kelaniya, Srilanka. Medical Faculty Responsibilities: Committee member of the Library Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya. (2010 to date) Committee member of the Kelaniya Faculty of Medicine Teacher's Association.(10.05.2010 to 10.05.2011) Service Functions: Teaching Research Clinical supervision Professional Contributions: Vice President of the Sri Lankan Association of Audiologists (2014 to date) Research Interests: Noise Induced Hearing Loss and its management Auditory neuropathy/dysynchrony Hearing impairment in children (Audiological and Speech-Language aspects) Voice disorders Ongoing research: Chandrasekara, J.M.A.U., de Silva, D., Chathurika, L.K.E., Jayasena, B.N., Ileperuma,L.D.Development and Equivalence evaluation of Sinhala Phonetically Balanced- Mono syllabic word lists for Speech Identification testing in Adults. Jayasena, B.N., Ileperuma, L.D., de Silva, D., Chathurika, L.K.E., Chandrasekara, J.M.A.U. NewbornHearing Screening at the University Pediatric Unit of the North Colombo Teaching Hospital,Ragama. De Silva, D., Chandrasekara, J.M.A.U., Chathurika, L.K.E., Jayasena, B.N.,Ileperuma,L.D.Development of Sinhala Spondees and Sinhala Paired Words for Testing of Speech Recognition Threshold. Research Grants: Recipient of Higher Education for the Twenty First Century (HETC) scholarship-2011 for MPhil/PhD Programme.

Research Interest

Noise Induced Hearing Loss and its management, Auditory neuropathy/dysynchrony, Hearing impairment in children (Audiological and Speech-Language aspects) and Voice disorders.