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Elena Theodorou is an Assistant Professor of Speech Pathology in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at the Cyprus University of Technology and a speech therapy program coordinator. She is also the founder and scientific coordinator of the research laboratory EPI.LO.Go. Her research focuses on the diagnosis of language disorders, language acquisition in both typical and atypical populations, language sample analysis, and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Additionally, she conducts research on voice disorders.

Her work has been widely presented at national and international conferences and published in esteemed scientific journals.

With 15 years of clinical experience as a Speech Pathologist in government settings, Dr Theodorou brings a rich practical background to her academic and research endeavours.

Since 2019, she has been an active member of the Child Language Committee (CLC) of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP). She served as Chair of the Cyprus Registration Council of Speech-Language Pathologists from 2021 to 2023 and currently chairs the Special Committee for the Recognition of Continuing Professional Education for Speech Therapists in Cyprus.

Activities

Employment (1)

Cyprus University of Technology: Lemesos, CY

2016-01-04 to present | Assistant Professor (Rehabilitation Sciences)
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Education and qualifications (1)

University of Cyprus: Nicosia, CY

2008-09-01 to 2013-11-14 | PhD in Linguistics (Department of English Studies)
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Professional activities (3)

International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders: Malta, MT

2019-11-10 to present | Child Language Committee, Deputy Chair
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Cyprus Association of Registered Speech-Language Pathologists: Nicosia, CY

2002-01-01 to present | Member
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Cyprus Registration Council of Speech-Language Pathologists: Nicosia, CY

2021-11-01 to 2025-10-31 | Chair
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Funding (3)

Linguistic Processing in Cypriot Greek children with Developmental Language Disorder.

2020-06 to 2021-05 | Grant
Cyprus University of Technology (Limassol, CY)
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Elena Theodorou

Language and Communication Impairments in Children: Diagnostic and Intervention Issues

2017-01-01 to 2018-12-31 | Grant
Technologiko Panepistemio Kyprou (Limassol, CY)
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Language and communication impairments in children: Diagnostic and intervention issues

2017-01 to 2019-12 | Grant
Cyprus University of Technology (Limassol, CY)
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Elena Theodorou

Works (40)

Voicing discrimination as a diagnostic marker of developmental language disorder

Journal of Neurolinguistics
2025-02 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4551655

Part of ISSN: 0911-6044
Contributors: Georgios P. Georgiou; Elena Theodorou
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Detection of Developmental Language Disorder in Cypriot Greek Children Using a Neural Network Algorithm

Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science
2024-12-04 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4551653

Part of ISSN: 2366-5963
Contributors: Georgios P. Georgiou; Elena Theodorou
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The coproduction of a multilevel personal narrative intervention for people with aphasia in a community communication support group—A pilot study

Frontiers in Stroke
2024-07-17 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4551656

Part of ISSN: 2813-3056
Contributors: Marina Charalambous; Rafaella Tereza Symeou; Elena Theodorou; Maria Kambanaros
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Telling Personal Narratives: Comparing Stories Told by 10-Year-Old Speakers of Cypriot Greek Dialect and of Standard Modern Greek

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica
2023 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4551652

Part of ISSN: 1021-7762
Part of ISSN: 1421-9972
Contributors: Elena Theodorou; Ioannis Vogindroukas; Eleni Giannakou; Lamprini Tsouti; Ioannis Phinikettos
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Abilities of children with developmental language disorders in perceiving phonological, grammatical, and semantic structures

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
2023-11 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4551651

Part of ISSN: 0162-3257
Part of ISSN: 1573-3432
Contributors: Georgios P. Georgiou; Elena Theodorou
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Comprehension of complex syntax by non-English-speaking children with developmental language disorder: A scoping review

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
2023-11-02 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4551654

Part of ISSN: 0269-9206
Part of ISSN: 1464-5076
Contributors: Georgios P. Georgiou; Elena Theodorou
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication Assessment Practices Followed in a School Setting: A Survey of Cypriot-Greek Speech and Language Pathologists

Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
2022-10-20 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2366-7532
Part of ISSN: 2366-7540
Contributors: Elena Theodorou
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Elena Theodorou
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Developmental language disorders in Cyprus

Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech
2022-06-22 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2631-8415
Part of ISSN: 2631-8407
Contributors: Elena Theodorou
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Elena Theodorou
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Risk Factors for Voice Disorders in Undergraduate Speech Language Pathology Students

Journal of Voice
2022-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0892-1997
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Effectiveness of Aural-Oral Approach Based on Volubility of a Deaf Child with Late-Mapping Bilateral Cochlear Implants

Audiology Research
2021-08-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2039-4349
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Elena Theodorou
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How aware is the public of the existence, characteristics and causes of language impairment in childhood and where have they heard about it? A European survey

Journal of Communication Disorders
2021-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0021-9924
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Dynamic Linguistic Interconnectedness and Variability in Toddlers

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
2021-01-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0090-6905
Part of ISSN: 1573-6555
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Elena Theodorou
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English foreign language teachers’ awareness of childhood language impairment

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
2020-12-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0269-9206
Part of ISSN: 1464-5076
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Elena Theodorou
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Investigating the Assessment Procedures for Children With Complex Communication Needs

Communication Disorders Quarterly
2020-09-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1525-7401
Part of ISSN: 1538-4837
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Elena Theodorou
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Risk factors for voice disorders in public school teachers in Cyprus

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
2020-05-24 | Journal article
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Elena Theodorou
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National vignette: Cyprus

Managing Children with Developmental Language Disorder
2019-04-09 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780429455308
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Elena Theodorou

Promoting speech intelligibility through phonologically dense targets

2019-04-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0269-9206
Part of ISSN: 1464-5076
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An exploration of the AAC assessment procedures followed by speech and language therapists in Cyprus.

Communication Matters
2018-11-06 | Journal article
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Elena Theodorou

The use of augmentative and alternative communication in Cyprus: Findings from a preliminary survey

Child Language Teaching and Therapy
2018-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0265-6590
Part of ISSN: 1477-0865
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Elena Theodorou
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In [1], the following errors were published. On page 1, line 11 of Paragraph 1:• Thirty-eight studies explored multilingualism in Communication Disorders, 10 in ASD and two in Intellectual Disability. The number of studies for Communication Disorders was stated incorrectly and should have read

Journal of Multilingualism
2017 | Journal article
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Elena Theodorou

Sentence Repetition as a Tool for Screening Morphosyntactic Abilities of Bilectal Children with SLI

Frontiers in Psychology
2017-12-06 | Journal article
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Elena Theodorou
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A cross-linguistic study of the acquisition of clitic and pronoun production

Language Acquisition
2016 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4550801

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Contributors: Varlokosta, Spyridoula; Belletti, Adriana; Costa, Joao; Friedmann, Naama; Gavarro, Anna; Grohmann, Kleanthes K.; Guasti, Maria Teresa; Tuller, Laurice; Lobo, Maria; Andelkovic, Darinka et al.
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Diagnosing bilectal children with SLI: Determination of identification accuracy

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
2016 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4550800

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2-s2.0-84975142517

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WOS:000390585300001

Contributors: Theodorou, Eleni; Kambanaros, Maria; Grohmann, Kleanthes K.
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Early phonetic development in typically developing children: A longitudinal investigation from Cypriot-Greek child data

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
2016 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4550799

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2-s2.0-84957947735

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WOS:000370640900002

Contributors: Petinou, Kakia; Theodorou, Eleni
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Object clitics in Cypriot Greek children with SLI

Lingua
2015 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4550802

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WOS:000356206000009

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2-s2.0-84937971868

Contributors: Theodorou, Eleni; Grohmann, Kleanthes K.
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CHAPTER TEN COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION ISSUES IN THE ACQUISITION OF RELATIVE CLAUSES IN CYPRIOT GREEK

Advances in Language Acquisition
2014 | Journal article
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On the nature of verb- noun dissociations in bilectal SLI: A psycholinguistic perspective from Greek

Bilingualism-Language and Cognition
2014 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4550803

WOSUID:

WOS:000332384200011

Contributors: Kambanaros, Maria; Grohmann, Kleanthes K.; Michaelides, Michalis; Theodorou, Eleni
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Specific language impairment in Cypriot Greek: Diagnostic issues

Linguistic Variation
2014-12-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2211-6834
Part of ISSN: 2211-6842
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Comparing multilingual children with SLI to their bilectal peers: Evidence from object and action picture naming

International Journal of Multilingualism
2013 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4550804

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2-s2.0-84873885714

Contributors: Kambanaros, M.; Grohmann, K.K.; Michaelides, M.; Theodorou, E.
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Diagnosing specific language impairment: The case of Cypriot Greek

2013 | Book
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Specific language impairment in Cypriot Greek: Diagnostic and experimental investigations

Nicosia: University of Cyprus PhD dissertation
2013 | Journal article
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Issues in the diagnosis of SLI in Greek Cypriot bilingual children

Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistics Theory
2012 | Journal article
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The acquisition of relative clauses in Cypriot Greek: production and comprehension

Revista Diacŕıtica
2012 | Journal article
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Elena Theodorou

The Acquisition of Tense in 17 Languages

36th Annual Boston University Conference
2011 | Conference paper
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLITIC PLACEMENT IN CYPRIOT GREEK AND THE ROMANCE CONNECTION* KLEANTHES K. GROHMANN

Selected Proceedings of the Romance Turn IV Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Languages
2011 | Conference paper
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Action and object naming in mono-and bilingual children with language impairment.

ExLing
2010 | Conference paper
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Development of voice onset time in standard-Greek and Cypriot-Greek-speaking preschoolers

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
2010 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-4550805

WOSUID:

WOS:000278860000001

Contributors: Okalidou, Areti; Petinou, Kakia; Theodorou, Eleni; Karasimou, Eleni
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Narratives in Cypriot Greek mono-and bilingual children with SLI.

ExLing
2010 | Conference paper
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Object clitics in typically-developing and language-impaired Cypriot Greek children

Let the Children Speak. Learning of Critical Skills Across 25 languages
2010 | Journal article
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Object clitics in bilectal children and (other) diagnostic tools for SLI in Cypriot Greek

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