Speech therapist for Phonological disorders in Acharnes

Giannakopoulou Ksenia is a Speech Therapist with many years of experience. She graduated from the Speech Therapy Department of the Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece (Patras) and holds a professional practice license. She completed the Postgraduate Program of the Hellenic Open University and the University of Thessaly titled "Educational Sciences: Special Education and Education of Individuals with Oral and Written Language Disorders."

Since 2018, she has been working with pediatric populations in various private speech therapy centers, while simultaneously providing home therapy sessions. She assesses the areas of communication, language, and speech using standardized tools and develops individualized therapy programs tailored to each child. She strongly believes in the value of lifelong learning and continuing education and their impact on the therapeutic process; therefore, she has been trained in a wide range of techniques and methods.

Special Heroes is an organized therapeutic framework for children, adolescents, and families, where comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic services are provided by specialized professionals of various disciplines. At our center, among other services, Psychological Assessment of the Child-Adolescent's Intellectual Functioning and Personality is offered. Intelligence assessment tests constitute scales that provide significant information across multiple areas of cognitive development, such as general knowledge, abstract reasoning, logical thinking ability, problem-solving skills, auditory and visual memory capacity, social judgment, and cognitive flexibility. The WPPSI-III is administered to children aged 2.6 to 7.3 years. The WISC-V is administered to children aged 6 to 16 years. Personality tests include various methods for the objective evaluation of behavior and personality, which are classified into three main categories: a) observation methods, b) questionnaires, and c) projective tests (Rorschach Inkblot Test), which reveal motives and personality traits that even the individual may be unaware of.

The Special Therapy Center "Logopaixnidismata" in Nea Ionia provides speech therapy, occupational therapy, special education, psychological support, and parental counseling services, with Scientific Director the Speech Therapist Kentro Eidikon Therapeion Logopaixnidismata. She studied Speech Therapy at the School of Health Sciences of the Higher Technological Educational Institute of Ioannina and holds a master's degree in Special Education from the University of Nicosia. She has experience working in Special Therapy Centers and specializes in learning disabilities, speech delay, as well as developmental disorders.