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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
Associate 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
Miren Urquijo,
University of the Basque Country
Carmen 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
Karine Harrar-Eskinazi,
Aix-Marseille Université
Johannes 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
Ruth 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
Anna Gerakini,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Diamanto 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
Gunilla Almgren Bäck,
Linnaeus University
Silvana Fluetsch Keravec,
Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich
Students’ Perspectives
Innovathens
14:40 – 15:00
Dyslexic students’ perceptions of success and failure factors in school
Helle Bundgaard Svendsen,
VIA University College
Nina 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
Georgia Penekeli, University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki
Vasiliki 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
Angeliki Mouzaki, University of Crete
Vasiliki Karkania, University of Crete
Giorgos Papapanagiotou, Inte*learn Multimedia Educational Applications
Papanagiotou Simos, University of Crete
Students’ Perspectives
Innovathens
15:00 – 15:20
Experiencing Dyslexia Through the Prism of Difference
Keith Murphy,
Technological University Dublin
15:20 – 15:50
Coffee break
Served in Purifier
15:50 – 16:20
Interactive poster session
Learn more about the posters and download abstracts
16:30 – 17:15 – Gasholder Amphitheatre
Keynote 2
“The Development of Reading and New Tests of Dyslexia and Subtypes”
Professor 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!
Day two
Saturday October 19
9:10 – 9:55 – Gasholder Amphitheatre
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”
Professor 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)
Voulgari Athina,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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
Elise Lefèvre, Université Rennes
Technologies
Innovathens
10:00 – 10:20
Workshop
Unveiling the power of AI: empowering individuals with Dyslexia
Luca Grandi, Italian Dyslexia Association
Diagnoses
Gasholder Amphitheatre
10:20 – 10:40
Screening for dyslexia: A standardized procedure based on condi/onal inference trees
Eddy Cavalli
Intervention and Prevention
Purifier
10:20 – 10:40
Building a Data Driven Intervention aiming to enhance Learning Disabled Students’ Reading Competence
Susana Padeliadu,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Faye Antoniou,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Vasiliki 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
James Smith-Spark, London South Bank University
Rebecca Gordon, University College London
Ashok Jansari, University of London
Diagnoses
Gasholder Amphitheatre
10:40 – 11:00
Mapping Dyslexia Across Europe
Pernilla Söderberg, EDA & Linnaeus University
- No abstract
Intervention and Prevention
Purifier
10:40 – 11:00
Word and nonword reading in Basque, the creation of assessment instruments
Amaia 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”
Riikka Marttinen,
The Finnish Diverse Learners’ Association
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
Served in Purifier
11:30 – 12:15 – Gasholder Amphitheatre
Keynote 4
“Unraveling Dyscalculia: What do we know and where should we go?”
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)
Giannis 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
Argyro Fella, University of Nicosia
Understandings
Innovathens
12:20 – 13:00
Exploration of Data Processing and Model Multiverse in Developmental Dyslexia Subtyping
Anna 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
Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus,
Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Understandings
Innovathens
13:00 – 13:20
Workshop
Metacognitive skills of people with dyslexia in higher education
Maria Drosinou-Korea,
University Peloponnese
Nikos Panopoulos,
University Peloponnese
Panagiotis Alexopoulos,
University Peloponnese
Artemis 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?
Anastasia 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
Aikaterini Premeti,
CNRS-Université Paris Nanterre
Understandings
Innovathens
14:30 – 14:50
Workshop
Students as Constellations; Helping Dyslexic & Dyscalculic Learners Shine with Evidence-Based Approaches.
Katrin “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
Maria 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
Sofia 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
Eleni Livaniou
Maths and Prediction
Gasholder Amphitheatre
15:10 – 15:30
Dyslexia symptoms as predictors of everyday attentional control
James H. Smith-Spark,
London South Bank University
Lia 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
Kyriaki Tsitsipa, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ioanna Talli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Georgia Andreou, University of Thessaly
Understandings
Innovathens
15:10 – 15:30 – Innovathens
Workshop
Solving Number Problems: Healing the Achilles’ Heel of Pupils.
Anthi Kokkoni,
Special Education Needs Teacher
Kleoniki Vlassopoulou,
Special Education Needs Teacher
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
Served in Purifier
16:00 – 16:30
Interactive poster session
Learn more about the posters and download abstracts
16:30 – 17:15 – Gasholder Amphitheatre
Keynote 5
“Neurocognitive Similarities and Differences between Dyslexia and Dyscalculia”
Bert de Smedt
17:15 – 17:45 – Gasholder Amphitheatre
Panel discussion
Day three
Sunday October 20
9:10 – 9:55 – Gasholder Amphitheatre
Keynote 6 - Live Stream
NOTE: This keynote is Live Streamed and not in person
“Dyslexia and the Reading Brain in a Digital World”
Maryanne 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
Apostolos Kargiotidis, University of Crete
George 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
Cristiano 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
Christina Protopapa,
London South Bank University
Rachael Elward,
London South Bank University
James 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?
Aliki Chalikia,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Asimina M. Ralli,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Faye 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
Eftychia Sarakatsanou, University of Thessaly
Athanasio Tsolis, University of Thessaly
Sotiria 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”
Paraskevi 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
Alice 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
Yanneli 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
Georgina Nnamani,
Manchester Institute of Education
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
Served in Purifier
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
Professor Silvia Paracchini
12:15 – 12:45 – Gasholder Amphitheatre
Panel discussion
12:45 – 13:00 – Gasholder Amphitheatre
