The Laboratory of Studies, Applications and Interventions in Communication and Deafness is staffed by teaching, research and other staff who serve in the Department of Educational and Social Policy of the University of Macedonia. The teaching and research staff consists of members of the Teaching Research Staff (D.E.P.), whose scientific work falls within the teaching, research and scientific interests of the relevant laboratory. This staff is completed by members of the Laboratory Teaching Staff (EDIP), the Special Educational Staff (EEP) and the Technical Laboratory Staff (ETEP) as well as by members of the other scientific staff
Okalidou Areti
- Professor (Department of Educational and Social Policy)
- Lab Director
email: okalidou@uom.edu.gr
website
phone: +30 2310891388
Areti Okalidou, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a Professor of Speech-Language Pathology and Speech Education in the Department of Educational and Social Policy at the University of Macedonia and Director of the Inter-Institutional Inter-Departmental Master’s Program in the Sciences of Communication Disorders. She has a clinical specialty in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP, A.S.H.A) and a PhD in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the City University of New York.
She was a founding member of the Speech Therapy Department of ATEI Patras, where she served as an Assistant Professor. She also taught in the Speech Therapy Department at Hunter College in New York and recently in the Hearing Speech and Language Sciences Department at Gallaudet University in Washington. She has worked extensively as a speech pathologist in schools, hospitals, speech and hearing clinics and early intervention centers in the USA. and Greece.
She was a member of the Central Health Council of the Ministry of Health (KESY) for the license to practice the profession of speech therapist as well as the Coordinator of the committee of the Ministry of Education for securing the labor rights of the speech therapists of the country.
Her research focuses on phonetics, development and assessment of Greek language, especially in children with hearing loss and cochlear implants. She was the scientific manager of funded projects (EPEAEK, etc.) for the education of children with a cochlear implant and a partner in the FP7 ITN Marie Curie “iCARE” European research program to enhance the auditory rehabilitation of children with hearing problems. She also served as an expert at the Research Executive Agency in Brussels, the World Health Organization on Hearing Loss ‘WHO Rehabilitation 2030 Development Group’, the Audiology Committee of the IALP and the Special Interest Group on Hearing Loss of the PSL. She is a Guest Associate Editor at Communication Disorders Quarterly and reviewer at international journals. Her research and writing work has been recognized and funded both nationally and internationally.
Martzos Theodoros
- Teaching Fellow (Department of Educational and Social Policy)
- Greek Sign Language Interpreter
email: martzos@uom.edu.gr, theo.martzos@hotmail.com
Theodoros Martzos has been an authorized teacher of the Department of Education & Social Policy since 2010 with the subject “Sign Language Laboratory”. He holds a degree in Informatics from the Hellenic Open University, has completed post-graduate studies in Special Education and is an assistant doctor at the University of Macedonia on the subject of his doctoral thesis “Investigation of the language proficiency level of Greek Sign Language (SSL) of hearing children of Deaf parents (CODA) and of the factors that contribute to it’. His research interests focus on the teaching and dissemination of ENG, the socio-cultural dimension of deafness and the applications of ENG using new technologies. He has also been an official ENG interpreter for more than 25 years.
Kontotheodorou Styliani
- PhD Candidate
email:
Mpanioti Aggeliki
- PhD Candidate
email:
Banioti Angeliki is a PhD candidate at the University of Macedonia. The subject of her thesis concerns the prosodic characteristics of narrative speech in children with apraxia of speech. He has graduated from the “Sciences of Communication Disorders” postgraduate program of the Department of Communication Disorders of the University of Macedonia. Her undergraduate studies were at the Speech Therapy Department at the Epirus University of Applied Sciences. She has been working as a speech therapist since 2014 with children who have developmental and neurogenic disorders. He attends many trainings, seminars and conferences in the field of speech therapy.
Chatzigiannakoglou Pavlos
- Laboratory Teaching Personnel
email: pxatzi@uom.edu.gr
phone: +302310891355
Notaridou Katerina
- Special Technical Lab Personnel
email: katnot@uom.edu.gr
phone: +302310891388