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Dr. M. N. (Giri) Hegde

SPABA has gained the distinct honor of hosting on our website the work of
​M. N. (Giri) Hegde, Ph.D
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M. N. (Giri) Hegde is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at California State University-Fresno. He holds a master’s degree in experimental psychology from the University of Mysore, India, and a post-master’s diploma in medical psychology from Bangalore University, India. His doctoral degree in speech-language pathology is from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

Dr. Hegde is a specialist in research methods, fluency disorders, language, and treatment procedures in communicative disorders. He has made many professional and scientific presentations to national and international audiences on a wide variety of topics in communicative disorders. He has published many research articles in national and international journals and over 25 critically acclaimed books on a wide range of subjects in speech-language pathology. He has edited nearly 30 books about speech-language pathology.

He has served on the editorial boards of several national and international journals, including the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Journal of Fluency Disorders; and Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis. He has received numerous local, state, and national professional accolades and honors, including the ASHA Fellow Award and the Outstanding Professor Award from California State University-Fresno.

He is also a published author of two fictions in his first language, Kannada. He has translated Kafka's Metamorphosis into Kannada. His most recent book is titled The Science of Poetics and is also written in Kannada. The book offers a behavioral science viewpoint of literary creativity.
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(1979) Operant Training and Generalization of Pronouns and a Verb Form
(1992) Ghandi and Skinner
(2007) Methodological Review of RCTs
(2008) Meaning in Behavior Analysis
(2010) Language and Grammar: A Behavior Analysis
(2011) Myths SLPs Cherish
The Science of Writing Fiction
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