Publications
Selected Publications:
Coedited with B. Lakshmi Bai. Language Development and Language Disorders. New Delhi: Bahri Publications (1994) Coedited with Aditi Mukherjee, Research and Practice in Literacy. New Delhi: Sage (2002)
Vasanta, D. 2004. Processing phonological information in a semi-syllabic script: Developmental data from Telugu. Special issue of the Journal, Reading and Writing (USA) 17: 59-78.
Vasanta, D. 2005. Language cannot be reduced to biology: Perspectives from neurodevelopmental disorders affecting language learning. Journal of Biosciences 30:1, 129-137.
Vasanta, D. 2006. Syllabic constraints in the phonological errors of children with prelingual hearing loss: A perspective from Telugu. In Zhu Hua and Barbara Dodd (eds.), Phonological Development and Disorders in Children: A Multilingual Perspective. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters
Vasanta, D. 2007. Phonological awareness and literacy acquisition in Telugu speaking normal hearing and hearing impaired children. Contemporary Education Dialogue 4:2. 217-237. Vasanta, D., and Venkatesh, L. 2009. Speech contrast discrimination in Telugu: Observations from normal hearing and hearing impaired children. J. of Acoustical Society of India 36:4, 172-175.
Pappu, R., and Vasanta, D. 2010. Educational quality and social inequality: Reflections on the link. Contemporary Education Dialogue 7:1, 94-117.
Vasanta, D. .Contemporary Education Dialogue 8:2, 2011: Review of the book, “Multilingual Education: Globalizing the Local by Ajit Mohanty et al published by Orient Black Swan, New Delhi