Dakshika Wijayanthie Bandaranayake

I am an SLP with 20+ years of work experience in a variety of clinical as well as academic settings. My clinical expertise areas include; speech sound disorders, cleft lip and palate/resonance disorders and craniofacial anomalies, adult dysphagia/swallowing disorders, adult acquired cognitive-communicative disorders, voice disorders and child language disorders.
I am a passionate and dedicated educator. In my teaching, I strive to transfer clinical and theory-driven research when teaching students to develop their ability to think critically and make evidence-based decisions. I hope these learning experiences encourage and inspire my students to become open-minded and life-long learners in their roles of clinicians, researchers and teachers. My appraoch is to create engaging, interactive and challenging learning experience to motivate students to become excellent clinicians and scholars. 
I have gained unique academic and clinical experiences working with diverse settings and underdeveloped countries, bringing exceptional clinical and academic diversity into teaching, research and clinical settings. I am dedicated to continue to conduct research and research-supervision in a variety of areas, populations, settings.

Doctor of Philosophy : CAHS, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2012 (Speech-Language Pathology)

Master of Arts: CAHS, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2003 (Speech-Language Pathology)

Bachelor of Science: Institute of Speech & Hearing Bangalore, India, 2000 (Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology )

Academic - College of Allied Health Sciences
Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders
Cincinnati  Ohio, 45267
Phone: 513-558-8516
bandardw@ucmail.uc.edu