Vishnu Nair

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Lecturer
Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences
Co-Lead (Health theme): Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism
Office
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Vishnu KK Nair, PhD is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences. He joined the school in Autumn 2021. He graduated with a PhD in Cognitive Science from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) in 2016, and completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Communication Sciences and Disorders from New York University (New York, USA) in 2020. Prior to obtaining his doctorate, he practiced as a Speech-Language Therapist in India mainly in pediatric settings. He worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at West Virginia University for a year before moving to University of Reading.
His PhD investigated the effects of bilingualism on cognitive control and novel word learning in bilingual adults. In his post-doctoral fellowship, he collaborated with colleagues from Sweden and Australia and studied language intervention effects in bilingual children with autism and developmental language disorders.
His current research has a strong focus on equity and social justice in the field of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. He is specifically interested in studying how race and disability intersects with multilingualism and how these intersections result in pathologisation of minoritized individuals and the challenges they face in speech and language service delivery. He is passionate about conducting research utilizing critical pedagogy and research methodologies that center the experiences of minoritized multi/translingual families
Teaching
Introduction to Speech-Language Pathology
Speech Language and Communication Disorders 1
Academic qualifications
2016 - Ph.D in Cognitive Science, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Australia
2010 – Masters in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Mangalore University
2008 – Bachelors in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Mangalore UniversityPublications
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Nair, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6631-0587 , Clark, G. , Siyambalapitiya, S. , Reuterskiöld, C. (2023) Language intervention in bilingual children with developmental language disorder: a systematic review. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders , 58 (2). pp. 576-600. ISSN: 1368-2822 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12803
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Yu, B.
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Nair, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6631-0587 , Brea, M. , Soto-Boykin, X. , Privette, C. , Sun, L. , Khamis, R. , Sheen Chiou, H. , Fabiano-Smith, L. , Epstein, L. , Hyter, Y. (2022) Gaps in framing and naming: commentary to "a viewpoint on accent services". American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology , 31 (4). pp. 1913-1918. ISSN: 1558-9110 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00060
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Siyambalapitiya, S.
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Paynter, J.
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Nair, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6631-0587 , Reuterskiöld, C. , Tucker, M. , Trembath, D. (2022) Longitudinal social and communication outcomes in children with autism raised in bi/multilingual environments. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 52 pp. 339-348. ISSN: 1573-3432 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-04940-x
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Nair, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6631-0587 , Rayner, T. , Siyambalapitiya, S. , Biedermann, B. (2021) Domain-general cognitive control and domain-specific language control in bilingual aphasia: a systematic quantitative literature review. Journal of Neurolinguistics , 60 ISSN: 0911-6044 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2021.101021
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Reuterskiöld, C.
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Hallin, A.
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Nair, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6631-0587 , Hansson, K. (2021) Morphosyntactic challenges for Swedish-speaking children with developmental language disorder in comparison with L1 and L2 peers. Applied Linguistics , 42 (4). pp. 720-739. ISSN: 1477-450X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/applin/amaa058
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Nickels, L.
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Hameau, S.
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Nair, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6631-0587 , Barr, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6631-0587 , Biedermann, B. (2019) Ageing with bilingualism: benefits and challenges. Speech, Language and Hearing , 22 (1). pp. 32-50. ISSN: 2050-571X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2050571X.2018.1555988
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Nair, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6631-0587 , Biedermann, B. , Nickels, L. (2017) Effect of socio-economic status on cognitive control in non-literate bilingual speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , 20 (5). pp. 999-1009. ISSN: 1469-1841 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916000778
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Nair, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6631-0587 , Biedermann, B. , Nickels, L. (2017) Understanding bilingual word learning: the role of phonotactic probability and phonological neighborhood density. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research , 60 (12). pp. 3551-3560. ISSN: 1558-9102 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2017_JSLHR-L-15-0376
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Nair, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6631-0587 , Biedermann, B. , Nickels, L. (2016) Consequences of late bilingualism for novel word learning: evidence from Tamil–English bilingual speakers. International Journal of Bilingualism , 20 (4). pp. 473-487. ISSN: 1367-0069 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006914567005
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Nair, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6631-0587 , Ravi, S. , Bhat, S. , Chengappa, S. (2013) Fast mapping of novel words in bi/multilinguals. In: Winskel, H. and Padakannaya, P. , (eds.) South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics. South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics pp. 124-132. ISBN: 9781139084642 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084642.014