Programme Athens 2024

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Download the full programme in PDF format, complete with all abstracts that we received. 

Latest changes

  • 2024-10-15: Keynote 1 “The Genetics of Dyslexia” has swapped places with Keynote 7  “Social and Emotional Adjustment of Individuals with Learning Disabilities: Identification and Support across the Lifespan
  • 2024-10-15: Day 3, 10:40 – 11:00, “Dynamic Assessment of Oral Language when Screening Multilingual Children in Greek Kindergarten“, Yanneli Panayota,
    Hellenic Association of Dyslexia
    is Cancelled
  • 2024-10-09: Day 2, 10:40 – 11:00, “Mapping Dyslexia Across Europe”, Pernilla Söderberg, EDA & Linnaeus University was added
  • 2024-07-11: Day 2, 10:40 – 11:00, “A Proactive And Preventative Approach To Early Reading Difficulties” is cancelled

Day one

Friday October 18

12:00 – 13:00 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Registration and coffee

13:00 – 13:30 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Opening Ceremony

Rosie Bissett, president of EDA
Dr. Giannis Karagiannakis,  Conference Chair
Assoc. Prof. Petros Roussos, University of Athens representative

13:30 – 14:15 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Keynote 1

“Social and Emotional Adjustment of Individuals with Learning Disabilities: Identification and Support across the Lifespan”

Please note the swap. This keynote was previously scheduled for Sunday at 11:30

Fotini Polychrony photo

Flag of GreeceAssociate Professor Fotini Polychroni

Creation of Environments
Gasholder Amphitheatre

Technologies
Purifier 

Please note that the presentations in the Purifier building will be in a downstairs room. Unfortunately there is no lift access to this room.

Students’ Perspectives
Innovathens

Creation of Environments
Gasholder Amphitheatre

14:20 – 14:40

Using Universal Design for Learning to make dyslexia-friendly schools; the DislexiaON project

Flag of spainMiren Urquijo,
University of the Basque Country  

Flag of SpainCarmen Anderson,
Dyslexia Association of Gipuzkoa DISLEGI

Technologies
Purifier 

14:20 – 14:40

Back on track: an efficient computer-assisted multi-componential remediation program for dyslexic readers

Flag of FranceKarine Harrar-Eskinazi,
Aix-Marseille Université

Flag of FranceJohannes C. Ziegler,
Université Côte d’Azur

Students’ Perspectives
Innovathens

14:20 – 14:40

Listening to students with a profile of dyslexia sitting for their National Examinations

Flag of MaltaRuth Falzon, University of Malta

Creation of Environments
Gasholder Amphitheatre

14:40 – 15:00 

The impact of school climate on academic emotions and motivation of adolescents with and without LD

Flag of GreeceAnna Gerakini,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Flag of GreeceDiamanto Filippatou,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Technologies
Purifier 

14:40 – 15:00 

Speech-to-text for students with dyslexia – results and implications from three research approaches

Flag of SwedenGunilla Almgren Bäck,
Linnaeus University

Flag of Switzerland Silvana Fluetsch Keravec,
Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich

Students’ Perspectives
Innovathens

14:40 – 15:00

Dyslexic students’ perceptions of success and failure factors in school

Flag of DenmarkHelle Bundgaard Svendsen,
VIA University College

Flag of DenmarkNina Berg Gøttsche,
VIA University College

Creation of Environments
Gasholder Amphitheatre

15:00 – 15:20 

Relationship between executive functions, emotion regulation and self regulated learning in students with SL D

Flag of GreeceGeorgia Penekeli, University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki

Flag of GreeceVasiliki Giannouli, University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki

Technologies
Purifier 

15:00 – 15:20

Digital Screening Tools and Intervention Activitiesfor Attentional Control, Working Memory, and Language Skills

Flag of GreeceAngeliki Mouzaki, University of Crete

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Vasiliki Karkania, University of Crete

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Giorgos Papapanagiotou, Inte*learn Multimedia Educational Applications

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Papanagiotou Simos, University of Crete

Students’ Perspectives
Innovathens

15:00 – 15:20

Experiencing Dyslexia Through the Prism of Difference

Flag of IrelandKeith Murphy,
Technological University Dublin

15:20 – 15:50

Coffee break

Served in Purifier

Picture of coffee

15:50 – 16:20 

Interactive poster session

Learn more about the posters and download abstracts

picture of a Poster wall

16:30 – 17:15 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Keynote 2

“The Development of Reading and New Tests of Dyslexia and Subtypes”

Stanislas Dehaene

Flag of FranceProfessor Stanislas Dehaene

17:15 – 17:45 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Panel discussion

20:00

Conference Dinner

Kuzina Restaurant   https://www.kuzina.gr/en/home

Only pre-booked participants. Bring your ticket!

Pre-booked only!

Day two

Saturday October 19

9:10 – 9:55 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Live Streaming

Keynote 3 - Live Stream

NOTE: This keynote is Live Streamed and not in person

“The Science of Reading Instruction: Facts and Myths and Why It Matters”

timothy shanahanon

Flag of USAProfessor Timothy Shanahan

Diagnoses
Gasholder Amphitheatre

Intervention and Prevention
Purifier 

Please note that the presentations in the Purifier building will be in a downstairs room. Unfortunately there is no lift access to this room.

Technologies
Innovathens

Diagnoses
Gasholder Amphitheatre

10:00 – 10:20

Cognitive and Reading Profiles of Gifted/Learning Disa bled ( GLD students)

Flag of GreeceVoulgari Athina,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Flag of Greece Susana Padeliadu,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Intervention and Prevention
Purifier 

10:00 – 10:20

Improving spelling disorders in children with DD thanks to an implicit training of complex graphemes

Flag of FranceElise Lefèvre, Université Rennes

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Gilles Leloup, Université Côte d’Azur & Centre Hospitalier de Lenval,

Technologies
Innovathens

10:00 – 10:20

Workshop

Unveiling the power of AI: empowering individuals with Dyslexia

Flag of ItalyLuca Grandi, Italian Dyslexia Association

Diagnoses
Gasholder Amphitheatre

10:20 – 10:40

Screening for dyslexia: A standardized procedure based on condi/onal inference trees

Flag of FranceEddy Cavalli

Intervention and Prevention
Purifier 

10:20 – 10:40

Building a Data Driven Intervention aiming to enhance Learning Disabled Students’ Reading Competence

Flag of Greece Susana Padeliadu,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Flag of GreeceFaye Antoniou,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Flag of GreeceVasiliki Kokkali,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Technologies
Innovathens

10:20 – 10:40

Office-based cognition in adults with dyslexia: Evidence from non-immersive virtual reality

Flag of United KingdomJames Smith-Spark, London South Bank University

Flag of United KingdomRebecca Gordon, University College London

Flag of United KingdomAshok Jansari, University of London

Diagnoses
Gasholder Amphitheatre

10:40 – 11:00

Mapping Dyslexia Across Europe

Flag of SwedenPernilla Söderberg, EDA & Linnaeus University

Intervention and Prevention
Purifier 

10:40 – 11:00

Word and nonword reading in Basque, the creation of assessment instruments

Flag of SpainAmaia Carrión-Castillo,
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

Technologies
Innovathens

10:40 – 11:00

Workshop

Technology’s Role in Supporting People with Dyslexia in the Workplace”

Flag of FinlandRiikka Marttinen,
The Finnish Diverse Learners’ Association

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

Served in Purifier

Picture of coffee

11:30 – 12:15 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Keynote 4

“Unraveling Dyscalculia: What do we know and where should we go?”

Picture of Marie-Pascale Noël

Professor Marie-Pascale Noël

Maths and Prediction
Gasholder Amphitheatre

Reading in School
Purifier 

Please note that the presentations in the Purifier building will be in a downstairs room. Unfortunately there is no lift access to this room.

Understandings
Innovathens

Maths and Prediction
Gasholder Amphitheatre

12:20 – 13:20 

Dyscalculia in practice: Informative diagnosis & Tailored intervention (Invited talk)

Flag of GreeceGiannis Karagiannakis, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Reading in School
Purifier 

12:20 – 13:00 – Purifier 

Event Related Components and lexical decision task in children with and without reading difficulties

Flag of CyprusArgyro Fella, University of Nicosia

Understandings
Innovathens

12:20 – 13:00

Exploration of Data Processing and Model Multiverse in Developmental Dyslexia Subtyping

Flag of GermanyAnna Leung,
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich

13:00 – 13:20

Dyscalculia in practice: Informative diagnosis & Tailored intervention (–Continued–)

Reading in School
Purifier 

13:00 – 13:20

The role of executive functions in reading fluency among children with dyslexia

Flag of IsraelTzipi Horowitz-Kraus,
Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Understandings
Innovathens

13:00 – 13:20

Workshop

Metacognitive skills of people with dyslexia in higher education

Flag of GreeceMaria Drosinou-Korea,
University Peloponnese 

Flag of GreeceNikos Panopoulos,
University Peloponnese 

Flag of GreecePanagiotis Alexopoulos,
University Peloponnese 

Flag of FranceArtemis Kalamari, University Toulouse 

13:20 – 14:30

Lunch break

Served in Purifier

Maths and Prediction
Gasholder Amphitheatre

Reading in School
Purifier 

Please note that the presentations in the Purifier building will be in a downstairs room. Unfortunately there is no lift access to this room.

Understandings
Innovathens

Maths and Prediction
Gasholder Amphitheatre

14:30 – 14:50

What predicts mental calculations of primary school students with Reading Disabilities?

Flag of GreeceAnastasia Chideridou-Mandari

Reading in School
Purifier 

14:30 – 14:50

Eye-movements in French dyslexic University students while reading aloud a text with spelling errors

Flag of FranceAikaterini Premeti,
CNRS-Université Paris Nanterre

Understandings
Innovathens

14:30 – 14:50

Workshop

Students as Constellations; Helping Dyslexic & Dyscalculic Learners Shine with Evidence-Based Approaches.

Flag of USAKatrin “Kate” McElderry, The Odyssey School

Maths and Prediction
Gasholder Amphitheatre

14:50 – 15:10

The predictive role of memory and RAN in Greek school-aged children with dyslexia learning English as a second language

Flag of GreeceMaria Ioanna Gkountakou, Ioanna Talli,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Reading in School
Purifier 

14:50 – 15:10

The relation of orthographic representations with efficient word reading in students with and without dyslexia

Flag of GreeceSofia Giazitzidou, Institute for the Future of Reading

Understandings
Innovathens

14:50 – 15:10

Workshop

Assessment with actionable insights : Neurodevelopmental Disorders and the comorbidity factor in Inclusive Education

Flag of GreeceEleni Livaniou

Maths and Prediction
Gasholder Amphitheatre

15:10 – 15:30

Dyslexia symptoms as predictors of everyday attentional control

Flag of United KingdomJames H. Smith-Spark,
London South Bank University

Flag of United KingdomLia Sendler,
London South Bank University

Reading in School
Purifier 

15:10 – 15:30

The interrelationship between fluid reasoning and reading and morphosyntactic skills in adolescents with Developmental Dyslexia

Flag of GreeceKyriaki Tsitsipa, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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Ioanna Talli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Flag of Greece

Georgia Andreou, University of Thessaly

Understandings
Innovathens

15:10 – 15:30 – Innovathens

Workshop

Solving Number Problems: Healing the Achilles’ Heel of Pupils.

Flag of GreeceAnthi Kokkoni,
Special Education Needs Teacher

Flag of GreeceKleoniki Vlassopoulou,
Special Education Needs Teacher

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

Served in Purifier

Picture of coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Interactive poster session

Learn more about the posters and download abstracts

picture of a Poster wall

16:30 – 17:15 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Keynote 5

“Neurocognitive Similarities and Differences between Dyslexia and Dyscalculia”

bert de smedt

Bert de Smedt

17:15 – 17:45 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Panel discussion

Day three

Sunday October 20

9:10 – 9:55 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Live Streaming

Keynote 6 - Live Stream

NOTE: This keynote is Live Streamed and not in person

“Dyslexia and the Reading Brain in a Digital World”

Picture of Maryanne Wolf

Flag of USAMaryanne Wolf

Comparision
Gasholder Amphitheatre

Diagnosis and Screening
Purifier 

Please note that the presentations in the Purifier building will be in a downstairs room. Unfortunately there is no lift access to this room.

Adolescence and Adults (Reading and Grammar)
Innovathens

Comparision
Gasholder Amphitheatre

10:00 – 10:20

Oral language growth differences between children with persistent and resolving literacy difficulties

Flag of GreeceApostolos Kargiotidis, University of Crete

Flag of GreeceGeorge Manolitsis, University of Crete

Diagnosis and Screening
Purifier 

10:00 – 10:20

The Indipote(dn)s project: how to identify and train children at risk for specific learning disorder

Flag of ItalyCristiano Termine, University of Insubria

Adolescence and Adults (Reading and Grammar)
Innovathens

10:00 – 10:20

The relationship between self-reported dyslexia symptoms and executive functioning in adults

Flag of United KingdomChristina Protopapa,
London South Bank University

Flag of United KingdomRachael Elward,
London South Bank University

Flag of United KingdomJames Smith-Spark,
London South Bank University

Comparision
Gasholder Amphitheatre

10:20 – 10:40

Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and children at risk for dyslexia (RfD). Can they be told apart?

Flag of GreeceAliki Chalikia,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Flag of GreeceAsimina M. Ralli,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Flag of GreeceFaye Antoniou,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Diagnosis and Screening
Purifier 

10:20 – 10:40

Screening, formative, and summative assessment for students with learning difficulties in Greece

Flag of GreeceEftychia Sarakatsanou, University of Thessaly

Flag of GreeceAthanasio Tsolis, University of Thessaly

Flag of GreeceSotiria Tzivinikou, University of Thessaly

Adolescence and Adults (Reading and Grammar)
Innovathens

10:20 – 10:40

Workshop

Teaching Grammar in the EFL Classroom to Students with Dyslexia”

Flag of GreeceParaskevi Kaperoni,
Special Education English Teacher

Comparision
Gasholder Amphitheatre

10:40 – 11:00

Creative thinking in preadolescents with dyslexia: School level differences in the figural creative advantage

Flag of ItalyAlice Cancer, 
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Diagnosis and Screening
Purifier 

10:40 – 11:00

CANCELLED

Dynamic Assessment of Oral Language when Screening Multilingual Children in Greek Kindergarten

Flag of GreeceYanneli Panayota,
Hellenic Association of Dyslexia 

Adolescence and Adults (Reading and Grammar)
Innovathens

10:40 – 11:00

Workshop

Preventing school failure in learners with dyslexia in mainstream secondary schools in England

Flag of United KingdomGeorgina Nnamani,
Manchester Institute of Education

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

Served in Purifier

Picture of coffee

11:30 – 12:15 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Keynote 7

“The Genetics of Dyslexia”

Please note the swap. This keynote was previously scheduled for Friday at 13:30

Picture of Silvia

Flag of United KingdomProfessor Silvia Paracchini

12:15 – 12:45 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Panel discussion

12:45 – 13:00 – Gasholder Amphitheatre

Closing ceremony

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