Athanasios Koutsoklenis

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Democritus University of Thrace

Editorial for Special Issue International Perspectives on Inclusion in Education.

This chapter critically assesses the analytical framework on universal human needs developed by Doyal and Gough (1991). This critical assessment focuses on the limitations associated with the endorsement of the biomedical model when addressing the basic need of health. We illustrate these limitations with particular reference to the case of Attenti...

This entry explores the historical emergence and enduring impact of the social model of disability (SMD) since its inception, highlighting its ongoing relevance. Originating as a critique of the limitations inherent in individualistic medical and charity models, the SMD reconceptualized disability as a social issue rather than a personal deficit, a...

Over the past two decades, there has been a growing shift away from the Social Model of Disability (SMD) in both theory and practice. This article aims to substantiate the relevance of SMD by addressing the main arguments against it and by identifying why and for whom it is still relevant. In the introductory section, we focus on the recent product...

Teacher hiring is often a dysfunctional time-consuming bureaucratic procedure, which is not always completed on time due to organisational impediments, budget cuts and slow-moving political processes. Specifically, late hiring has been reported to affect negatively teachers’ as well as students’ performance. This study examined the extent of late h...

Το παρόν βιβλίο Σπουδές για την Αναπηρία και Παιδαγωγική της Ένταξης παρέχει μια νέα και καινοτόμα προσέγγιση των θεωρητικών ζητημάτων για την αναπηρία στον ελληνικό χώρο. Η κατασκευή της επιστημονικής γνώσης μέσα από το πεδίο των Σπουδών για την Αναπηρία βασίζεται στις θεωρητικές ρίζες των κοινωνικών και ανθρωπιστικών επιστημών και προσδίδει στην...

Internationalisation of the Curriculum (IoC) is an integral constituent of the strategic goal of all Universities throughout the world. Despite its universal top-down pursuit, there is a yawning gap between teaching practices and policies as little attention has been given to faculty development (FD) that takes into account IoC. An intentional shif...

The purpose of this presentation is to offer a detailed description of the eBook entitled A toolkit for university teachers, which is a collection of good practices, innovative materials, and useful ideas for developing professional academic skills for supporting and monitoring effective learning and teaching in Higher Education and facilitating in...

In this article, we critically review the changes made to the DSM-5 Text Revision published in 2022 regarding the diagnostic entity of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We structure our critique around three points. The first discusses the acknowledgment of ADHD as a neurodevelopmental disorder. The second examines the definition of...

The contemporary conceptualization of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a complex, multifactorial neurodevelopmental disorder cannot be understood as such without a complex assemblage of political, economic, and cultural processes that deem the conceptualization to be valuable and useful. In this article we use the notion of psychi...

Background. This paper argues that Cultural-Historical neuropsychology provides a solid theoretical framework for the assessment of reading difficulties. Objective. The objective of the paper is to discuss how reading process and reading difficulties are perceived through the prism of Cultural-Historical neuropsychology. Design. This paper is of...

In this article we argue that cultural-historical neuropsychology manages to escape the theoretical stagnation that characterises the field of dyslexia. To support our argumentation, we first define cultural-historical psychology and neuropsychology and determine their subject matter. Afterwards, we provide an outline of how reading and reading dif...

Parallel support is a Greek type of special education provision aiming at providing additional support to students identified with special educational needs and/or disability in mainstream classrooms. Drawing from quantitative data for the school-year 2018-2019 this paper presents findings on certain characteristics of primary and pre-primary teach...

This paper presents the evolution of parallel support (PS) in both primary and secondary educational level during 2014-2019. The researchers focused on the number of parallel support teachers (PST) recruited as well as on the amount of approved PS requests per year based on data from the Ministry of Education and Religion Affairs. Although the numb...

Η εργασία παρουσιάζει την εξέλιξη του θεσμού της παράλληλης στήριξης (ΠΣ) στην πρωτοβάθμια και δευτεροβάθμια εκπαίδευση το διάστημα 2014-2019 με έμφαση στον αριθμό αφενός των εκπαιδευτικών παράλληλης στήριξης (ΕΠΣ) που προσλαμβάνονταν αφετέρου των εγκεκριμένων αιτημάτων ΠΣ κατ’ έτος βάσει στοιχείων από το Υπουργείο Παιδείας και Θρησκευμάτων. Παρότι...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a debated phenomenon and the link between schooling and the occurrence of ADHD diagnoses is worth critical scrutiny. This paper contributes to the academic debate by providing a literature review of the evidence on the influence of relative age effect (RAE) on being diagnosed with ADHD. Firstly, th...

In this paper, we critically evaluate the literature of evidence-based psychosocial interventions for children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Our paper is structured around five main criticisms. First, the evidence-based psychosocial interventions are formulated on the basis of the categorical diagnosis of ADHD, whi...

Το Σχολείο της Προσοχής αναπτύχθηκε από τις νευροψυχολόγους Tatiana Akhutina και Natalia Pylaeva και βασίζεται στις επιστημονικές θεωρίες του πρωτοπόρου ψυχολόγου και θεμελιωτή της πολιτισμικής-ιστορικής θεωρίας Lev Vygotsky και του μαθητή του και κορυφαίου νευροψυχολόγου Alexander Luria. Αποσκοπεί στην αποκατάσταση των μαθησιακών δυσκολιών που προ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the structure of active social networks of individuals with visual impairments, the social support they receive from their social networks, and their satisfaction from received support. In addition, we examined these factors as predictors of happiness in people with visual impairments. A total of 96 individu...

Ο γεωργός απλά ρίχνει τον σπόρο· το γόνιμο έδαφος κάνει το φυτό να ανθίσει". Αν αναλογισθούμε ότι εκπαίδευση είναι η καθημερινή τροποποίηση του εγκεφάλου, τότε οι "Σκέψεις Παιδαγωγικής" του Ραμόν υ Καχάλ, του κατ' εξοχήν νευροεπιστήμονα που έβαλε τα μύχια της ψυχής στο μικροσκόπιο, αποκτούν ξεχωριστή αξία. Την τελευταία δεκαετία αναπτύσσεται, σε αρ...

Introduction The study presented here examines which haptic cues individuals with visual impairments use more frequently and determines which of these cues are deemed by these individuals to be the most important for way-finding in urban environments. It also investigates the ways in which these haptic cues are used by individuals with visual impai...

Autism Spectrum Disorders are characterized by deficits in social communication and interaction and by the presence of stereotyped, restricted and repeated behaviors. ASD are associated with various cognitive and behavioral disorders, and medical conditions. They are generally considered as lifelong, irreversible disorders. However, recent evidence...

Completely Automatic Public Turing Test to Tell Computer and Human Apart (CAPTCHA) is a challenge response test which is a security method in web-related services aiming at distinguishing between human users and computers. Although nowadays the use of CAPTCHA is becoming a standard security method, this specific type of textual verification hinders...

This article focuses on the application of functional behavioral assessment (FBA) to design a positive behavior intervention (PBI) for a boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) who encounters serious difficulties at the mainstream school because of behavioral problems and physical limitations. After the definition of problem behavior and its cau...

The interdisciplinary trend in "Mind, Brain, and Education" has witnessed dynamic international growth in recent years. Yet, it remains little known that the National University of La Plata in Argentina probably holds the historical precedent as the world's first institution of higher education that formally included neurobiology in the curriculum...

The study presented here sought to explore the role of auditory cues in the spatial knowledge of blind individuals by examining the relation between the perceived auditory cues and the landscape of a given area and by investigating how blind individuals use auditory cues to create cognitive maps. The findings reveal that several auditory cues chara...

This study investigated word intelligibility among sighted individuals and individuals with visual impairments for both natural and synthetic speech. Both groups of participants performed significantly better when identifying words presented via natural speech. The results also demonstrated that individuals with visual impairments were more success...

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by motor and phonic tics that follow a fluctuating pattern of severity, intensity and frequency. TS is often associated with other conditions such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and learning difficulties. This complex phenotype affects the ac...

The study presented here examined which auditory cues individuals with visual impairments use more frequently and consider to be the most important for wayfinding in urban environments. It also investigated the ways in which these individuals use the most significant auditory cues.

This study examined which olfactory cues individuals with visual impairments use most often and determined which of these cues these individuals deemed to be the most important for wayfinding in urban environments. It also investigated the ways in which the individuals use these olfactory cues.

This study investigated word intelligibility among sighted individuals and individuals with visual impairments for both natural and synthetic speech. Both groups of participants performed significantly better when identifying words presented via natural speech. The results also demonstrated that individuals with visual impairments were more success...

This study investigated the intelligibility and comprehensibility of natural speech in comparison to synthetic speech. The results demonstrate the type of errors; the relationship between intelligibility and comprehensibility; and the correlation between intelligibility and comprehensibility and key factors, such as the frequency of use of text-to-...

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