Updates
September
- Pratik Bhandari, Isha Wosti, and Siju Rana released a pre-print of a Stage 1 registered report titled, “NepS: Normed Resource of Semantically Diverse Nepali Sentence Completions,” on PsyArxiv.
August
NCCS hosted a workshop for Speech and Hearing Sciences (BASLP) students to facilitate interaction and exposure to current research.
Sajana Aryal was selected to join the Global Audiology Working Group under the International Society of Audiology.
Sajana Aryal was selected for the 2026 Jerger Future Leaders of Audiology Conference (JFLAC) by the American Academy of Audiology.
Sajana Aryal was appointed as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Doctor of Audiology (AuD) Program at the University of Iowa.
July
Pratik Bhandari participated in the NMA Computational Neuroscience summer school.
Isha Wosti and Siju Rana joined NCCS as Researchers. Welcome Isha and Siju!
Sajana Aryal published “Associations Between Extended High-Frequency Thresholds and Middle Ear Muscle Reflex Growth Functions in Adults With Normal Audiograms” in Ear and Hearing.
June
NCCS received ethical clearance for the project titled “Prediction-by-Production in Adults Who Stutter and Fluent Nepali Speakers: Behavioral Evidence from Sentence Comprehension and Prediction Tasks”.
Biraj Bhattarai published “A Scoping Review of Prefrontal Cortical Activation During Working Memory Processing Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy” in the Journal of Cognitive Science
Biraj Bhattarai was selected for the 2026 ASHA Pathways Program.
April
- Sajana Aryal successfully defended her PhD and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. Congratulations Dr. Aryal! She is joining the University of Iowa as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar.
March
- Biraj Bhattarai published “Projected Poststroke Aphasia Prevalence by 2050: Demographic Trends, Contributing Factors, and Implications for Clinical Practice and Research” in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR).
January
- A protocol paper titled “Prevalence of hearing loss across age groups in Nepal: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol” co-authored by Pratik Bhandari and Sajana Arayal is out in BMJ Open.