Sofia Vagena
Speech Therapist | Scientific ManagerSofia Vagena
Speech Therapist | Scientific ManagerAt Logos & Epikinonia, I have trained numerous speech therapists and specialists fromvarious disciplines.
My therapeutic interests are diverse, and I am committed to staying at the forefront of advancements in our field. My academic journey includes two master’s theses involving
extensive clinical work. The first focused on the hearing impaired children’s sentence structure, while the second focused on the treatment of a bilingual adult patient with aphasia. My training encompasses a broad spectrum of areas, including language and phonological delays/disorders, pervasive developmental disorders, alternative communication methods, dyspraxia, stuttering, rhinolalia, voice disorders, special learning difficulties, aphasia, and more.
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I chose speech therapy as a life career through a random presentation in an elective pedagogy course in my final year of studies at the University of Athens. After graduating with honors, I worked for 2 years as an English teacher and then continued my studies at the University of Reading, alongside leading linguists. After completing my MA in Applied Linguistics with honors, I went on to City University where I obtained my British License to Practice as a Speech Therapist and my MSc in Clinical Communication Studies. In my studies, I was supported by the scholarships of the Papadakis endowment, the Onassis Scholarship Foundation and the Lilian Voudouris Foundation.
After finishing my studies, I worked in a Community Clinic in London for some time and returned to Greece in 1999 when I created Logos & Epikinonia. At the same time, I worked for some years at the Theotokos foundation, firstly with children and young people with severe learning difficulties and secondly, in Early Intervention.
On a personal level, I started a family and have 2 children, Nikolas and Elena.
Seminars, conferences and workshops
- Topic: Voice Therapy – The Process.
Speech & Language therapy dept. Northwick Park & St Mark’s NHS Trust - Topic: Ηelping people to keep their voices healthy and to communicate effectively.
Voice Care Network UK - Topic: Special Learning Problems, Speech Therapy Approach.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: Play & Communication: a non-directive approach.
ICAN - Certificate for Makaton Regional Tutor.
MAKATON Greece - Topic: Working with Deaf people – Part 1
University College London - An Introduction to Assessment and Therapy with Deaf Clients.
- Topic: Specific language disorder – Developmental dysphasia from preschool to adolescence.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists
8th Conference of the Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: Nature, Differential diagnosis Therapeutic intervention and Psychosocial “dimension”.
Hellenic Association for Aphasia - Topic: Voicecraft for professional voice users.
Voicecraft international PTY. LTD. - Topic: Voicecraft for the Speech Language Therapist.
Voicecraft International PTY. LTD. - Topic: Aphasia: from assessment to a holistic approach.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: “Voicecraft” for professional voice users.
Voicecraft international PTY. LTD. - Topic: Assessment Diagnosis Intervention of oral and written language difficulties according to the psycholinguistic model.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: Development of phonological awareness and rehabilitation program.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Language Pathologists - Topic: Prevention of speech and communication disorders in preschool age.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - International Scientific Symposium “The Puzzle of Autism“
- Topic: The picture exchange communication system (PECS).
Pyramid International - Topic: Communication and Speech Disorders.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists
Prevention, Research, Intervention and New Technologies in Health. - Topic: Communication and speech disorder in autism.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Experiential voice seminar.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: Stuttering in children and adolescents.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: Education in the treatment of children with autism, practical training and literature review. Methodology and application of behavior analysis in the education and treatment of children with autism.
Child Development and Education Center - Topic: Feeding problems in childhood – treatment by a speech therapist.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: The Structure of the Modern Greek language (mainly morphology and syntax), its relationship with semantic knowledge and communication and its development during preschool age.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: TEACCH, Essentials of Structured Education.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: Communication disorders, Autism, Positions and approaches.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: 1st Scientific Day of Dysphagia.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: Supervising Students in Speech and Language Therapy Settings.
University College London - Topic: Proceedings of the 9th Developmental Pediatrics Seminar.
Institute of Child Health - Experiential Seminar “Communication and dynamics of relationships in the family (The symptom as a message)”.
Institute of Child Health - Topic: The management of stammering in children under 7 years old.
Panhellenic Association of Speech and Language Pathologists – Michael Palin Center for Stammering Children. - Topic: Rehabilitation of children and adults with a cochlear implant.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: Rhinolalia and other speech problems in cleft lip and palate. Assessment and treatment.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: The PECS method in practice and problem solving.
Pyramid Educational Consultants GR - Topic: Assessment and Treatment of Verbal Dyspraxia: The Nuffield Programme.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists – Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust - 1st Practical Symposium on Voice – Swallowing and Their Disorders.
Panhellenic Society of Otorhinolaryngology - Topic: Narrative, Identity and Its Importance for a Child’s Early Years. Its relationship with the development of spoken and written language.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists - Topic: Storytelling Education Method for childhood, “List’n Tell”.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists
- Topic: Voice Therapy – The Process.
40. Topic: The Lidcombe Program of Early Stuttering Intervention.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists
41. Topic: Level 1 – Introduction to Pivotal Response Training.
A/ Hellenic Society of Developmental & Behavioral Paediatrics
B/ UCSB Koegel Autism Center
42. Topic: Intervention strategies for a cognitive behavioral treatment of stuttering.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists
43. Topic: Autism and Everyday Life.
Greek developmental and behavioral pediatrics company
44. Participation in Pivotal Response Training – Level II.
A/ Hellenic Society of Developmental & Behavioral Paediatrics
B/ UCSB Koegel Autism Center
45. Cygnet programme.
Bradford Children & Young People’s Partnership, Believe in Children – Barnardo’s Yorkshire, Association for Psychosocial Studies
46. Topic: Developing a checklist.
Greek developmental and behavioral pediatrics company
47. Workshop “A three-part treatment plan for oral placement therapy”.
Talk Tools – Stark & Watson
48. Workshop “Teaching Functional Speech to Non-Verbal Individuals with Autism and Related Disabilities: Applied Behavior Analysis (A.B.A) and Oral Placement Therapy (O.P.T)”.
Talk Tools – Stark & Watson
49. Topic: The Floortime Center® Workshop on the Greenspan Floortime Approach®.
The Floortime Center® – Monorodi – Interdisciplinary Center of Epirus
50. Topic: How to treat aphasia, dysathria and apraxia of speech evidence and experience.
Rosenbek John Clyde, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BC-NCD
51. Topic: Approaching the child with autism through Sensory Integration.
Interdisciplinary Center of Epirus – Mylonadis Dimitrios
52. Topic: Continuity in knowledge, innovation in practice: 3 educational symposia in speech therapy science.
13th Panhellenic Conference of Speech and Language Therapists
53. M. O. R. E. Protocol: Integrating the Mouth with Sensory and Postural Functions.
ΠΑΙΔ.Ι – Patricia Oetter and Eileen Richter
54. Topic: “Feeding Therapy: A Sensory – Motor Approach”
STARK & WATSON – Overland Lori, MS, CCC – SLP, C/NDT, CLC
55. Topic: Encouraging play in children with ASD and typical peers
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists
56. Topic: “The GET Permission Approach to Feeding”
STARK & WATSON – Dunn Klein Marsha, OTR/L,MED, FAOTA
57. Topic: “Cognitive Behavioral Drama”
Experiential Educational Seminar – Dr. Harris Karnezis
58.Topic: Sensory Integration Conference
Eliza Maglari – Hellenic Society for Psycho-Economic Support of Children and Adolescents with Behavioral Problems
59. Topic: “Feeding the preterm infant: From assessment of early feeding skills to intervention”
Thoyre Suzanne – Panhellenic Association of Speech Language Pathologists
60. Topic: “Integrated Voice Therapy Level 1 training webinar”
Elpida Koutsoubaki – Integrated Voice Therapy
61. Topic: “SOS Approach to Feeding – Education in selective and problematic feeding.”
62. Topic: Athena Diagnostic Test for Learning Disabilities – Training and Proficiency Acquisition.
Protasis Educational Organization
63. Subject: “Walt Fritz, Pt Foundations in Manual Therapy: experiential workshop. Voice and swallowing disorders”.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Language Pathologists
64. Topic: “Cognitive Behavioral Drama Master Class”
Dr. Harris Karnezis
September 24, 2023
65. Topic: “8th Panhellenic Autism Congress”.
Panhellenic Association of Speech Pathologists
October 13-15, 2023
66. Topic: “LSVT LOUD: Speech Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease and Other Conditions”.
LSVT Global Interdisciplinary Center
Interdisciplinary Center of Epirus
November 3-5, 2023
