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.
Regarding her clinical experience, she has worked for 16 years at the Ministry of Education as a teacher of Special Education in various settings of primary education (schools of special education, inclusion classes, parallel support). She has also worked as a speech and language therapist in private practice providing services to children with a wide range of speech, language and communication disorders.
She has participated in various funded research programs in Greece and abroad and has numerous publications in international scientific journals, collective volumes and conference proceedings. She is serving as an ad hoc reviewer for several international scientific journals (e.g. Autism and Developmental Language Impairments, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, First Language, Research in Developmental Disabilities).
She is a registered member of scientific association of speech and language therapists and logopedagogists of Greece and a member of the board of Hellenic Psychological Association, serving as a Cashier (2022-2025).
