Formal name: Mridula Sharma

Position: Lecturer

Personal Title: Dr

Qualifications: BSc (Speech Therapy & Audiology), MSc (Speech Pathology & Audiology) and PhD (Audiology)

Telephone: +61 2 9850 4863

Fax: +61 2 9850 9199

Email: mridula.sharma@ling.mq.edu.au

Location: C5A 518

Profile

Prior to commencing her appointment with Macquarie University, Mridula was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Psychology, Speech Science Division, University of Auckland, New Zealand. The focus of the research during the fellowship was in improving diagnosis and targeting interventions in order to achieve better outcomes for school-aged children with auditory processing disorders. Mridula has dual degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences and worked clinically in both capacities in India for 5 years before commencing her PhD at Macquarie University. Her PhD research investigated electrophysiology as a possible tool in the diagnosis of auditory processing disorders in children with reading disorders.

Mridula has presented her work at both national and international conferences and has publications in peer-reviewed journals such as Clinical Neurophysiology, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology, Neuroreport among others.

Research Interests

Electrophysiological assessment of auditory function in infants and children, diagnosis and interventions of auditory processing disorders, language and reading disorders