Emerging Trends in the Diagnosis and Intervention of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Neurodevelopmental disorders encompass a group of conditions that can typically manifest during early childhood. These include intellectual disabilities, communication disorders, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), specific learning disorder (SLD), and motor disorders. Early identification and assessment can be a valuable tool in determining diagnosis, prognosis, functional abilities, and formulating clinical intervention for both children and adults with neurodevelopmental disorders. Emerging Trends in the Diagnosis and Intervention of Neurodevelopmental Disorders is an essential reference source that discusses and disseminates contributions covering recent trends in diagnosis, assessment, and intervention techniques. Featuring research on topics such as clinical linguistics, neural connectivity, and animal-assisted therapy, this book is ideally designed for speech pathologists, social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, pediatricians, researchers, clinicians, and academicians seeking coverage on neural and developmental disorder identification and strategies for clinician support and therapies.

Sanjeev Kumar Gupta’s passion is to make a positive difference in the lives of parents/caregivers and persons with communication/neurodevelopmental disorders through clinical practice, public education, research, and teaching. His areas of interest are child and adolescent mental health, caregivers’ engagement; screen addiction in children and adolescent; cognitive behaviour therapy for stuttering, mindfulness meditation, and telerehabilitation. As part of his clinical duty, he has evaluated 15,000+ cases, issued 1,000+ certificates/reports, and attended 40+ outreach programs in various parts of India. He has developed educational brochures & videos for public education, published 25 research papers/book chapters, authored/edited 5 books, completed one research project, and conducted 15+ workshops and training programs. He has attended 100+ academic conferences/meetings and presented 11 research papers in various conferences including the 31st International Congress of Psychology at Yokohama, Japan. He has received travel awards from the IBRO-APRC and DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance. He has reviewed many research papers for the journals like Journal of Learning Disability, Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU, and Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology. On the teaching front, he has been an external examiner and question paper setter for M.Sc. and M.Phil. Courses at different universities. He has delivered 20+ lectures as an invited speaker and taken classes on various topics in Clinical Psychology for M.Sc. interns at AIISH, Mysuru. He holds Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical) from the University of Mysore, Mysuru, and M.Phil. in Medical & Social Psychology from the Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi. He has also qualified UGC NET in Psychology.

Srinivasan Venkatesan is Professor and Head, Department of Clinical Psychology, AIISH, Mysore, Karnataka. He has earlier served at NIMH, Secunderabad-Hyderabad. He has authored 26 books, contributed 24 chapters in books, another 35 varieties of technical literature, and published 135 research papers, served as resource person for workshops for different target groups. He has completed projects through collaboration with national/international agencies, guided students for Ph.D., been on editorial board for journals and peer-reviewed research articles, presented papers in conferences and served as an examiner for adjudication of doctoral theses. Consistently a first class and university rank holder from school to pre-doctoral courses at NIMHANS, Bangalore, 1987; he was awarded the doctorate in 1993. A Fellow of the Society for Advanced Studies in Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in psychiatry, he was decorated with Gold Medal by the former President of India, Sri Giani Zail Singh in 1994; NN Sen Memorial Award for ‘Best Research Paper’ by Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists in 2002; ‘Psycho Oration Award’ in January 2009, and Prof. Anima Sen Memorial Award in 2012.

S. P. Goswami holds PhD in Speech and Hearing and also PGDHRM and MBA in Health Care Management. He is the first Speech and Hearing professional to receive the prestigious CV Raman fellowship from UGC, Government of India as Visiting Scholar at College of Applied Health Sciences, Department of Speech & Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under CV Raman fellowship, UGC, GOI, New Delhi (August, 2013 to July, 2014). Presently he is working as Professor and Head Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Academic coordinator and formerly worked as Head Department of Clinical Services, Speech-Language Pathology at AIISH, Mysore. He has more than 18 years of academic, clinical, research and administrative experience. He works in the area of Aphasia, ageing and neuro-cognitive communication disorders in adults and elderly. He has published more than 31 research articles in national and international journals, 20 in-house publication and 19 Books/chapters/tools/tests with ISBN numbers. Two candidates have been awarded PhD and four are presently pursuing their doctorate program under his guidance.

Rajeev Kumar , Doctoral Researcher at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, availed prestigious Senior Research Fellowship of University Grant Commission, New Delhi. Hold MSW from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and M.Phil from Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi. Major areas of interest are psychotherapeutic interventions, substance use, mental health and community-epidemiological aspect of HIV/AIDS, children mental health and protection issues and community health issues. Having publications in national and international journals including Taylor and Francis publication group. Mr. Kumar is a member of reviewer board in journals of Sage Publication and Elsevier publication. Mr. Kumar delivered several invited lectures in various state level training programs, and have taught at the undergraduate and postgraduate level at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Currently teaching as adjunct faculty at Department of Rural Development and Management, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekanand Universtiy, Ranchi. As a national level master trainer, Mr. Kumar conducted nine week-long training in Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Sikkim states for ongoing multi collaborative National Drug Use Survey sponsored by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, New Delhi. Mr. Kumar has presented several research papers at national and international fora, including International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan.