I am a certified Speech Pathologist with a PhD in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics. My main research areas include (in alphabetical order):
- Acquired Language Disorders (Aphasia, Dementia, Schizophrenia — Bilingual)
- Atypical Language Development (Syndromes — di George, Prader–Willi, Williams, etc.)
- Developmental Language Disorders (Autism, Dyslexia, Specific Language Impairment — Bilingual)
- Experimental/Psycholinguistics (Lexical Access — Bilingual, Reaction Time, Picture-Naming)
- Motor–Speech Disorders (Apraxia, Dysarthria)
- Sociolinguistics (Bilingualism, Gender, Policy-Making — Development, Pathology, Communication)
- Speech Pathology (Clinical Education, Clinical Issues, Diagnostics — Supervision)
- Typical Language Development (English, Greek — Bilingual)
The following is a list of my past and present research project activities:
Senior Research Investigator in Research Project on Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
(project: Early Identification and Assessment of Preschool Children with SLI in Cyprus)
Duration: 2 years from early 2011 (co-proposer, project to be awarded to K.K. Grohmann)
Funding: Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation (RPF), ca. EUR 120,000
External Collaborator in Research Project on Child Language Development
(Generative Childhood-Holistic Investigations of Language Development (Gen-CHILD): Context Domain-Specific Socio-Syntax of First Language Acquisition in Cypriot Greek)
Duration: April 2010–2012 (project awarded to K.K. Grohmann)
Funding: University of Cyprus (UCY), EUR 88,000
Member of the Management Committee (MC) and Working Groups 3 and 4 (WG2 & 4)
(COST IS0804: Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society; http://www.bi-sli.org)
Duration: June 2009–2013 (WG3 ‘Lexicon and Phonology’ & WG4 ‘Executive Functions’)
Funding: European Science Foundation (ESF), expected to be ca. EUR 500,000 total
Pilot Study on SLI Children (WG1 & WG3)
(COST A33: Cross-linguistically Robust Stages of Children’s Linguistic Performance)
Duration: January 2009 (COST Action Short-Term Scientific Mission)
Funding: European Collaboration in Science and Technology (COST), travel costs
Object and Action Naming in Cypriot SLI
(COST A33: Cross-linguistically Robust Stages of Children’s Linguistic Performance)
Duration: November 2007 (COST Action Short-Term Scientific Mission)
Funding: European Collaboration in Science and Technology (COST), travel costs
Language Assessment for Non-Native Speakers of Greek
(Dept. of Speech & Language Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Patras)
Duration: 2006-2008 (principal investigator)
Funding: Greek Ministry of Education
Curriculum Development
(Dept. of Speech & Language Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Patras)
Duration: 2003-2008 (co-investigator)
Funding: European Social Fund and National Resources (ΕΠΕΑΕΚ II)
The Development of Prepositions in Normal and Disordered Language
(Dept. of Speech & Language Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Patras)
Duration: 2004-2007 (co-investigator)
Funding: Archimides I (EU project)
Decision-Making Tools for Speech-Language Pathologists
(Dept. of Speech & Language Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Patras)
Duration: 2004-2007 (co-investigator)
Funding: Archimides I (EU project)
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