Department of Communication Disorders

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Dr. Tawhida Jahan
Associate Professor

Dr. Tawhida Jahan

Department of Communication Disorders
Faculty of Social Sciences
tawhida.jahan@du.ac.bd Mobile: 01797-341457, 9661920, Ext: 6860/6417
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Currently, I am working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Disorders, University of Dhaka, and I am also the former chairperson of this department. Before joining the Department of Communication Disorders, I worked as a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, University, Bangladesh, since 2013. Besides my academic duty, I was a moderator at the Dhaka University ...
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Degree Name Group/Major Subject Board/Institute Country Passing Year
Ph.D. Communication Disorders University of Dhaka Bangladesh 2025
M.Phil. Cognitive Science TU Kaiserslautern Germany 2019
Masters Linguistics University of Dhaka Bangladesh 2011
Bachelor Linguistics University of Dhaka Bangladesh 2010
H.S.C Humanities Holy Cross College Bangladesh 2005
Title Organization Location From Date To Date
Linguistics Expert GigaTech - Sentiment Analysis Project (EBLICT) Dhaka Aug 2020 Present
Chairperson Department of Communication Disorders University of Dhaka Feb 2020 Present
Bengali Language Consultant What3words London, United Kingdom Mar 2018 Mar 2019
Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Disorders, University of Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh Sep 2016 Present
Lecturer Dept. of Communication Disorders, University of Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh Apr 2015 Aug 2019
Lecturer Dept. of Linguistics, University of Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh Nov 2013 Mar 2019

Research Interest

Subject Description Research Interest (Goal, Target Indicator)
Cognitive Science- Human cognition, knowledge & language
Pshycholinguistics
Neuro-Linguistics
Autism, Down Syndrome, Aphasia
Linguistics and language processing
Speech and Language pathology
Communication Disorders
Clinical Linguistics

Project/Research Supervision

Level of Study Title Supervisor Co-Supervisor(s) Name of Student(s) Area of Research Current Completion
No project/research supervision is found

Project/Research Work

Subject Project Name Source of Fund From Date To Date Collaboration
Analysis of perlocutionary effects performed by Bengali High Functioning Autistic children. 01-07-2015 01-12-2015
A proposed multilingual therapy model for Bengali Aphasic patients. 01-01-1970 30-07-2015
An analysis of pre-verbal skills performed by low functioning autistic children. 01-01-1970 01-07-2011
A proposed pre-verbal therapy model for Bengali low functioning autistic children.
An analysis of pre-verbal skills performed by low functioning autistic children.
Theory of Mind (TOM) and identifying the nature of emotional expression performed by Bengali children with Down Syndrome.
Gesture as sign: A semiotic analysis of Bengali emblematic hand gestures
The Input Hypothesis and cognitive approach to L2 acquisition: A study of L2 vocabulary acquisition by Bengali children.
The Influence of Visual Association Field on the Helmholtz illusion
P3b amplitudes differences in ultra-rapid visual categorization task of food and non-food items.
Anticipatory eye movements while processing WH-dependencies in a second language
A brief introduction of EBLICT (Enhancement of Bengali Language in ICT) A project for creating Bengali Language Corpus.
Communication Sciences and Language Disorders (Book)

Invited Talk

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  • SL Collaboration & Membership Name Type Membership Year Expire Year
    1 Linguistics Summer School, Prag, Chech Republic Alumni member 2018 Life Time
    2 Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Gent, Belgium Alumni Member 2019 Life Time
    3 Center for Cognitive Science, TUK, Germany Associate member 2018 Life Time
    4 Germany Scholarship, Education Ministry, Germany Scholar 2017 Life Time
    5 Birmingham corpus linguistics summer school Alumni 2018 Life Time
    Book
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    Tawhida Jahan Communication Sciences and Language Disorders. Dhaka: Nabajug prokashon, 2015 .
    Book Section
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    Tawhida Jahan "A proposed multilingual therapy model for Bengali Aphasic patients." Aphasia and Bengali Language: Linguistic Analysis. Dr. Hakim Arif Dhaka: Dhaka Book fair, 2015 149-166 .
    2
    Tawhida Jahan "Analysis of perlocutionary effects performed by Bengali High Functioning Autistic children.." Language Problem of Bengali Autistic childrens. Dr. Hakim Arif Dhaka: Annesha prokason, 2015 57-80 .
    Journal Article
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    Tawhida Jahan : P3b amplitudes differences in ultra-rapid visual categorization task of food and non-food items., South Florida Journal of Development , vol.2 , no.1 , pp.440-457 , 2021 .
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    Tawhida Jahan : Theory of Mind (ToM) and analyzing how Bengali children with Down syndrome identify human faces expressing emotions, Faculty of Social Science , vol.Vol.13 , no.No.13 , pp.29-36 , 2019 .
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    Tawhida Jahan : The Input Hypothesis and cognitive approach to L2 acquisition: A study of L2 vocabulary acquisition by Bengali children., The Journal of the Institute of Modern Language , vol.Vol.28 , no.No.28 , pp.71-83 , 2017 .
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    Tawhida Jahan : An analysis of pre-verbal skills performed by low functioning autistic children, The Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics , vol.Vol.4 , no.No.7 , pp.63-78 , 2014 .
    Conference Proceedings
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    Tawhida Jahan "A brief introduction Enhancement of Bengali Language in ICT- A project for creating Bengali Language Corpus." Corpus Linguistics Summer School, University of Birmingham United Kingdom: Bangla Corpus, 2019 .
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    Tawhida Jahan "Anticipatory eye movement while processing WH-dependencies in a second language.." Psycholinguistics in Flanders-PIF 2018, Belgium. Gent, Belgium.: 2018 .
    3
    Tawhida Jahan "Gesture as sign: A semiotic analysis of Bengali emblematic hand gestures.." Summer School of Linguistics, August’ 2017 Litomyšl, Czech Republic: 2017 .
    Award Type Title Year Country Description
    International Deutschland Stipendium 2017 Germany

    Deutschlandstipendium is a German government
    Local Begam Saida Afjal Memorial Award, University Of Dhaka 2015 Bangladesh

    Name & designation Dr. Tawhida Jahan Associate Professor
    Department Department of Communication Disorders Faculty of Social Sciences
    Email tawhida.jahan@du.ac.bd
    Phone Mobile: 01797-341457, 9661920, Ext: 6860/6417