Ishanti Gangopadhyay, Ph.D
Ishanti Gangopadhyay, Ph.D
Director and Principal Investigator
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Ishanti is director of the LEMuR Lab, housed in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences department at Indiana University, Bloomington. The lab's research focuses on bilingual language development in children with communication and language difficulties, like autism.
Ishanti grew up in India where she completed her primary and secondary schooling, and then received her B.A. in Psychology from Clark University, Massachusetts in 2008. Following her college years, she was a research technician at the Somatosensory Lab at Johns Hopkins University from 2008-2010 and a research assistant at the Cognitive Neurology/Neuropsychology Lab at the JHU medical campus from 2010-2012. Here, she conducted research on language processing in individuals with autism using ERP and eye-tracking methods
In 2019, Ishanti earned her Ph.D in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her graduate training centered on the relationship between language and cognition in bilingual children, and in children with ASD and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Her dissertation, funded by the National Science Foundation, examined the impact of social-pragmatic cues on word learning in monolingual and bilingual children. Subsequently, as a postdoctoral researcher in the LEARN Lab at New York University, she studied language development and language learning in children with ASD from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Email: ishgang@iu.eduOffice: Health Sciences Building, Room C2015CV LinkedIn
Ishanti grew up in India where she completed her primary and secondary schooling, and then received her B.A. in Psychology from Clark University, Massachusetts in 2008. Following her college years, she was a research technician at the Somatosensory Lab at Johns Hopkins University from 2008-2010 and a research assistant at the Cognitive Neurology/Neuropsychology Lab at the JHU medical campus from 2010-2012. Here, she conducted research on language processing in individuals with autism using ERP and eye-tracking methods
In 2019, Ishanti earned her Ph.D in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her graduate training centered on the relationship between language and cognition in bilingual children, and in children with ASD and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Her dissertation, funded by the National Science Foundation, examined the impact of social-pragmatic cues on word learning in monolingual and bilingual children. Subsequently, as a postdoctoral researcher in the LEARN Lab at New York University, she studied language development and language learning in children with ASD from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Email: ishgang@iu.eduOffice: Health Sciences Building, Room C2015CV LinkedIn
Shalini Banerjee
Shalini Banerjee
Lead Research Assistant
Shalini is from Bangalore, India, and is a doctoral student in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. She completed her master’s in Speech-Language Pathology from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, and her bachelor’s degree in Speech and hearing Sciences from the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore. After graduating, Shalini worked as a pediatric speech-language pathologist in an interdisciplinary setup in India. She is interested in understanding in detail the factors that contribute to language learning in children with or without language impairments from bilingual backgrounds. Specifically curious to explore the role of executive functions and social communication skills in language learning. In her free time, Shalini loves exercising, traveling, learning about different cultures, and trying out new cuisines.
Rachel Elizabeth Johnson
Rachel Elizabeth Johnson
Lead Research Assistant
Rachel is from Kerala, India, and is currently a doctoral student in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. She holds a Master’s degree in Speech Language and Pathology and Bachelor’s degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Father Muller College, Karnataka, India. Prior to joining the LEMuR Lab, she worked as a Junior Research Fellow in The Infant-Toddler Language Development & Intervention Lab (LiL') at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India. Rachel’s research interest focuses on learning the bi/multilingual language development in children with or without developmental disorders. Outside of her academic pursuits, she enjoys dancing, watching movies and spending time with friends.
Delfina Ogando Yomha
Delfina Ogando Yomha
Lab manager/Research Assistant
Delfina is from Buenos Aires, Argentina and completed her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Spanish at Indiana University. After graduating, she worked as an ABA therapist to gain clinical experience. She is interested in becoming a Counseling Psychologist and addressing mental health through an interdisciplinary lens and examining how social stressors and stratifications affect mental health. Delfina loves going on hikes, listening to music, singing, reading, and spending time with friends.
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