Published work - Language disorders

Hettiarachchi, S. (2016). The effectiveness of Colourful Semantics on narrative skills in children with intellectual disabilities in Sri Lanka. Journal of intellectual disabilities, 20 (1), 18-33.

Hettiarachchi, S., Ranaweera, M., & Walisundara, D. C. (2018). Colour Me... Orange? Incorporating Aspects of the Colourful Semantics Approach into a TESOL Programme at Preschool. Asian Journal of English Language Teaching, 27, pp.143-176. Abstract.

Hettiarachchi, S., & Ranaweera, M. (2019). The effectiveness of using the Colourful Semantics approach to support language development with children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Deafness & Education International, 1-17. Abstract.

Perera, H. l ., Jeewandara, K. C., Seneviratne, S., & Guruge, B. C. (2012). Developmental language regression in autism: a descriptive study in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, 41(1), 15–19. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljch.v41i1.4132

Sandyanganie, M. S. V., Jeewandara, K. C., & Perera, H. (2016). Prevalence and correlates of reading and spelling difficulty in 10 year old children in a semi-urban population in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, 45(3), 193–198.

Seneviratne, L. C. (2013). Effect of early identification on language acquisition in hearing impaired, cochlear implanted children. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, 42(2), 87–89.

Walpita, W. D. Y. N., & Ginige, S. (2014). Timeliness of care received by children with speech and language disorders attending a speech therapy clinic at a tertiary care hospital. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, 43(3), 143-153.

Wickenden, M., Hartley, S., Kariyakarawana, S. and Kodikara, S. (2003). Teaching speech and language therapists in Sri Lanka: Issues in curriculum, culture and language. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. 55, 314-321.Abstract.