Areti Okalidou

Areti Okalidou is a speech-language pathologist and an associate professor of Speech-Language Pathology and Education at the Department of Educational and Social Policy at the University of Macedonia. A graduate of the Pedagogical Academy of Thessaloniki, she continued her studies in psychology and speech-language pathology as a scholarship recipient at universities in the USA. She completed her doctoral dissertation at the internationally renowned Doctoral Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the City University of New York, for which she was awarded by the State of New York. She has worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Speech Therapy at the Technological Educational Institute of Patras and as a speech-language pathologist in schools, hospitals, and special education centers in the USA and Greece. Her research interests focus on the production and development of phonetics/phonology, clinical phonetics, and particularly on speech production by children with hearing impairments. She is the author of the book "Hearing Loss-Deafness: Study of Speech Production and Therapeutic Intervention," published by "Ellinika Grammata."