Ioanna Talli
Assistant Professor, Department of Italian Language and Literature, School of Philosophy
Dr. Ioanna Talli holds a BA degree in Special Education from University of Macedonia (2004), MSc in Special Education and Speech and Language Therapy from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2007), and a PhD in Psychology from University of Paris Descartes and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2010). Since 2021 she is a faculty member of the Department of Italian Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (currently Assistant Professor). Her primary research interests fall within the field of psycholinguistics and neurodevelopmental disorders (developmental dyslexia, developmental language disorder and autism spectrum disorder). She mainly focuses on the assessment and learning of oral and written language (reading, spelling) and cognitive mechanisms (memory, attention) in monolingual and bi-/multilingual children (Greek, Romance languages, etc.). She teaches courses related to special education, foreign language learning in special education, assessment of second language skills in students with special educational needs, and speech and language disorders. She has participated in various funded research programs in Greece and abroad (she is the Scientific leader in an Erasmus+ Small Scale KA210 project) and has numerous publications in international scientific journals, collective volumes and conference proceedings.