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| Name: | Klimis | Position: | Assistant Professor |
| Surname: | Antzakas | Subject: | Special Education with emphasis in Deaf Education |
| Email: | k.antzakas@upatras.gr | Phone: | 2610 997757 |
Klimis Antzakas is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Education and Social Work (former P.T.D.E. – Law 4610/2019) on the subject of Special Education emphasizing on Deaf Education. Furthermore, he manages Deaf Studies Unit of the Department of Education and Social Work of the University of Patras. His research interests focus on issues related to deaf education. Specifically, language development and literacy of deaf/hard of hearing students and linguistic analysis of sign language and its application in education, both in the context of bilingual education of deaf/hard of hearing studentsand in the general framework of inclusive education. In addition, research interests include subjects directly related to deaf education such as: language acquisition of children with hearing loss on both spoken and sign language,early intervention and support of deaf/hard of hearing children and their families, communication and accessibility for students as well as deaf/hard of hearing adults and the Deaf community, specific technologies for deaf/hard of hearing students, technological applications as well as ICT and their implementation in education, sign language teaching and sign language interpreters training. He has participated in research projects and has published papers both in Greece and abroad.
| Short CV: | Klimis Antzakas has a PhD in in Human Communication (Sign Language Linguistics) from City University of London. His has a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Philosophy of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of Athens. He received a scholarship from National Foundation Scholarship (IKY) and did postgraduate studies at the City University of London (City University of London) where he obtained a master’s Diploma in Deaf Studies, Deaf Education. He worked for thirteen years as an expert in educational support of deaf and hard of hearing children in a service of ministry of education for the support of exceptional children (Center of Diagnosis, Differential diagnosis and Support) Since 2018 he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Patras. He has also taught at the Hellenic Open University, the University of Nicosia, the City University of London and Roehampton University and the University of Patras (as visiting lecturer 2008-2011) and as invited lecturer at the University of Athens. His research interests include deaf education and more specifically on language development and literacy of deaf/hard of hearing students as well sign linguistics. In addition, he participates in research programs related to digital recognition of sign language and sign language teaching both in school and in higher education. His work has been published in Greece and abroad. |
| Education: | PhD Studies City University of London, Department of Language and Communication Science. Doctoral Thesis (2008): “Aspects of Morphology and Syntax of Negation in Greek Sign Language”. Supervisor: Professor Bencie Woll
Postgraduate Studies City University of London, Department of Language and Communication Science. Postgraduate Diploma (2000) in Human Communication, pathway Deaf Studies.
Undergraduate StudiesΠροπτυχιακές σπουδές University of Athens, School of Philosophy. BA (1994) in Philosophy Pedagogy and Psychology, specialization in Psychology.
Further Education Program ‘Horizon’. Interpreting training program for Greek Sign Language Interpreters (1989-1991). University of Patras, Municipality of Argyroupolis, National Federation of the Deaf (OMKE). Diploma of Interpreter in Greek Sign Language. |
| Position – Subject: | Assistant Professor at the Dpt of Education and Social Work, on the subject of Special Education with Emphasis in Deaf Education. |
| Scientific fields of interest: | Education of deaf/hard of hearing students. Language development and literacy of deaf/hard of hearing students. Sign language linguistics and deaf education. Language acquisition of deaf/hard of hearing children and language development. Early intervention and support of deaf/hard of hearing children and their families. Deaf education and inclusive education. Communication and accessibility for deaf/hard of hearing students and deaf/hard of hearing adults and the Deaf community. Specific technologies for deaf/hard of hearing students, technological applications, ICT and and deafeducation. Sign language teaching and the training of sign language interpreters. |
| Employment history: | 2018 until today, Department of Education and Social Work in the undergraduate program the courses: Introduction to Special Education, Inclusion of students with disabilities and special educational needs: Theory and Practice, Deaf Education, Sign Language Linguistics – Applications in bilingual education. From 2018 until today, Department of Education Sciences and Social Work in the postgraduate program “Education Sciences” the courses: Teaching students with special needs – Deaf education and Education Theories. 2018-2019 distance postgraduate program “Special Education” of the University of Nicosia. 2016-2018 in the postgraduate program “Education Sciences Special education and training of people with problems in oral and written language” of the Hellenic Open University. 2007 to 2012 at the “Evangelos Papanoutsos” School of Education in service training program of Special Education, University of Patras. 2008 as a Lecturer (PD 407/80) in the undergraduate program of the PTE of the University of Patras. 2011-2017 lectures at the Dpt of Linguistics, University of Athens. 2003 as lecturer at Roehampton University of Surrey. 1999 to 2000 lectures at City University of London. |
| Main research work: | 2020 until today member of the main research team. Program: Erasmus + Computer-assisted teaching of Sign Language using Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Coordinator: Dimitris Kosmopoulos, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Environment Management and New Technologies, University of Patras.
2020 until today of the main research team. Program: SignGuide – Automatic tour of a museum using sign language (Project Code T2EDK-00982). Coordinator: Dimitris Kosmopoulos, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Environment Management and New Technologies, University of Patras.http://xanthippi.ceid.upatras.gr/SignGuide/GR/SignGuide.html
2018 until today member of the main research team. Program: HealthSign – Sign language analysis on mobile devices for interpretation with emphasis on health services (Project Code T1EDK-01299). Coordinator: Dimitris Kosmopoulos, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Environment Management and New Technologies, University of Patras. http://xanthippi.ceid.upatras.gr/HealthSign
2018 until today member of the main research team. Program: Communicate – Development of an application for the conversion of sign language into written and spoken language using smart devices (Project Code T1EDK-02469). Coordinator: Dimitris Papazachariou, Associate Professor, Department of Philology, University of Patras.
2015 to 2016 researcher with a project contract in the research program of the Research Center ‘Athena’ – Research Center for Innovation in Information and Communication Technologies (EC ‘Athena’) / Institute of Speech Processing (IEL) for the project “Digital Accessibility and Language Technology Services for the Digital Education Platform and the Panhellenic Digital Repository of Learning Objects “.
2013 to 2015 member of the research team and material writing team of the SignGram COAST Action IS 1006 “Unraveling the grammars of European sign languages: phathways tofull citizenship of the deaf signers and to the protection of their linguistic heritage : [Unfolding the grammars of European sign languages: paths to full citizenship for deaf signifiers and the protection of their linguistic heritage].
2006 member of the material writing team for the distance training of Executives of Supporting Support Services (S.Y.Y.) entitled “Development of Educational Material for the Training of Executives of S.Y.Y.” Section 1a of Chapter A, People with motor and sensory disabilities: Deaf and hard of hearing people.
2006 member of the Delfi program production team entitled “Distance Learning and Life LongTraining for the Deaf people in the E-Commerce and New Technologies Sector via e-Learning Tools”. in the Field of New Technologies through e-learning tools (e-Lerning)].
2003 to 2004 member of the team of the Pedagogical Institute for the Development of Curricula for Special Education in the category of Education for Children with Hearing Impairments. Project entitled “Mapping – Curricula for Special Education”.
1996 to 1997 member of the research team for the collection of meanings and codification of the Greek Sign Language, for the creation of educational materials for the teaching of Sign Language in a Multi Media environment. Agency: Municipality of Argyroupolis in collaboration with NTUA and the Federation of the Deaf of Greece. Leonardo program.
1992 to 1994 member of the research team in the Horizon program for research in the phonology of the Greek Sign Language and the training of Deaf teachers as Greek Sign Language teachers. Institutions: Municipality of Argyroupolis, University of Patras, Durham University, Total Communication Center – Denmark. Horizon Program. Assistant program manager Prof. Venetta Lambropoulou.
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| Postgraduate: |
Department of Education and Social Work Sciences postgraduate program “Education Sciences”. Teaching students with special needs – Education of deaf students (2018 until today). Education Theories (2020 to date).
University of Nicosia postgraduate program “Special Education”. Special Education (2018-2019).
Hellenic Open University postgraduate program “Education Sciences, Special education and training of students withproblems in oral and written language”. Language development (2016-2018).
School of Education “Evangelos Papanoutsos” in service training, University of Patras. Deaf Education I (2007-20012). Deaf Education II (2008-2012).
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| Undergraduate: | Department of Education and Social Work Sciences undergraduate program.
Department of Primary Education of the University of Patras in the undergraduate program Introduction to special education (2008).
Roehampton University (UK) Dpt of Media Culture and Language in the undergraduate program. Linguistics of British Sign Language (2003).
City University of London (UK) Dpt of Language and Communication Science in undergraduate program. Sign Language (1999-2000).
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Antzakas, K. (u.p.). Sign Language. In G. Giannakis, J. Brian, M Janse, I. Manolessou P. Filos (eds) Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Leiden / Boston, Brill.
Antzakas, K. (u.p.). Gesture. In G. Giannakis, J. Brian, M Janse, I. Manolessou P. Filos (eds) Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Leiden / Boston, Brill.
Tsimpidaki, A., Antzakas, K., Giaouri, S., Mavropalias, T., Tragoulia, E., (ed.) 2022. Students with disabilities and special educational needs. Introduction to special education (editing of the Greek edition of Exceptional learners. An introduction to special education by Daniel P. Hallahan, James M. Kaufman Paige C. Pullen, 14th edition, Pearson publications), Athens: Gutenberg Publications.
Zacharopoulou, V., Antzakas, K., Papazachariou, D. (2021). The morphological marking of the plural of nouns in the Greek Sign Language (ENG), a first approach. Proceedings of the International Conference of Greek Linguistics, University of Patras (14th ICGL)
Panagiotakopoulos, Ch., Karatrandou, A., Antzakas, K. (2020). The web application “Greek Sign Language-1”: Issues of design, construction and evaluation. Issues of Science and Technology in Education, 13 (1/2), (33-48).
Adaloglou, N., Chatzis, T., Papastratis, I., Stergioulas A., Papadopoulos, G., Zacharopoulou, V., Xydopoulos, G., Antzakas, K., Papazachariou, D., Daras, P. (2020 ) Comprehensive Study on Sign Language Recognition Methods. arXiv: 2007.12530.
Kosmopoulos, D., Oikonomidis, C., Constantinopoulos, N., Arvanitis, N., Antzakas, K., Bifis, A, Lydakis, G., Roussos, A., Argyros, A. (2020). Towards a visual Sign Language dataset for home care services. Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition vol. 1 (pp. 622-626).
Zacharopoulou, V., Antzakas, K., Papazachariou, D. (2020). The dialectical variety in the Greek Sign Language. Studies on the Greek language 40 (2020) (pp. 127-138)
Constantinopoulos, C., Kosmopoulos, D., Argyros, A., Oikonomidis, I., Lampropoulou, V., Antzakas, K., Panagopoulos, C., Menychtas, A., Theoharatos, C. 2019. The HealthSign project, current state and future activities. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, IISA 2019, Patras, Greece, 15-17 July 2019.
Antzakas, K., Donati, K. (2017). Declaratives. In J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau, and M. Steinbach (eds.), The SignGram Blueprint: A guide to sign language grammar writing (pp. 288- 289). Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/467598?rskey=haAzTx
Antzakas, K., Donati, K. (2017). Negatives. Chapter 1 of Part V. In J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau, and M. Steinbach (eds.), The SignGram Blueprint: A guide to sign language grammar writing (pp. 321-333). Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter.https: //www.degruyter.com/view/product/467598? Rskey = haAzTx
Donati, K., Antzakas, K. (2017). Exclamatives. In J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau, and M. Steinbach (eds.), The SignGram Blueprint: A guide to sign language grammar writing (pp. 315- 321). Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/467598?rskey=haAzTx
Antzakas, K., Quer, J. 2015. The Verbal Accord in Greek Sign Language. Studies on the Greek Language. Proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the Department of Linguistics of the Department of Philology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 8-10 May 2014 (pp. 92-105).
Antzakas, K. 2008. Aspects of morphology and syntax of negation in Greek Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics 11 (2), (265-275).
Antzakas, K. 2008. The scope of denial in Greek Sign Language. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Greek Linguistics, University of Ioannina (8th ICGL). Ioannina, 30-8 to 2-9-2007 (pp. 635-645)
Antzakas, K. 2007. Morphology and Syntax of Denial in Greek Sign Language. Proceedings of the Panhellenic Conference with International Participation “The Deaf in Greek Reality”, Deaf Education Unit, University of Patras, September 7-9, 2007.
Antzakas, K. 2006 The use of negative head movements in Greek Sign Language. In Zeshan, U. (ed.), Interrogative and negative constructions in sign languages (pp. 258-270). Sign Language Typology Series No. 1. Nijmegen: Ishara Press
Antzakas, K. 2003. Evidence of denial in Greek Sign Language. Studies on the Greek Language. Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting of the Department of Linguistics of the Department of Philology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 17-19 May 2002 (pp. 605-613). Thessaloniki, Kyriakidis Publications.
Antzakas, K., Woll, B. 2001. Head movements and negation in Greek Sign Language. In I. Wachsmuth, T. Sowa (Ed.),Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction, International Gesture Workshop (pp. 193-196). Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag.