Ms. Lakna Mendis

Ms. Lakna Mendis is a speech therapist at Burjeel Medical City, Abu Dhabi, with eight years of clinical experience across diverse healthcare settings. She holds a master's degree in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology from Dr. M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing, affiliated with Mangalore University.

Her clinical background spans university departments, specialized schools, outpatient clinics, and hospital facilities including acute care and rehabilitation units. Ms. Mendis evaluates and manages a broad spectrum of speech, language, and swallowing disorders across pediatric and adult populations, including receptive and expressive language disorders, articulation and phonological disorders, voice disorders, fluency disorders, and feeding and swallowing impairments.

Ms. Mendis specializes in play-based therapy for children, oral-motor assessment and treatment, alternative and augmentative communication methods, and the management of complex cases including patients with tracheostomy, head and neck injury, burns, and respiratory distress. She is trained in neonatal and pediatric intensive care feeding for premature infants and children with swallowing challenges, and is a certified auditory-verbal therapist for pediatric patients following cochlear implantation.