Associate Editor:

Neli Vasileva, PhD, DSc

Visiting Professor, Varna Medical University
Professor, Department of Special Education and Logopedics, Faculty of Educational Studies and the Arts, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia 1574, Shipchenski prohod 69 A Str, Bulgaria

Prof. DSc Neli Vasileva completed her education in Logopedics (Speech and Language Pathology) at Moscow Pedagogical University, Russian Federation, in 1985. Since 1987 she is a full-time doctoral student at Scientific Institute of Defectology, Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation), where in 1991 she holds a PhD in psychology (psychology of persons with speech pathology). She works as a lecturer in logopedics at Shumen University, Bulgaria (1992-2002), where she is the founder and head of the Special Pedagogy Department. Since 2000 she is an associate professor of special psychology (psychology of abnormal development) at University of Shumen. Since 2003 she is an associate professor of logopedics at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Department of Special Education and Logopedics. In the period 2011-2012 develops an independent project in pediatric (child) neuropsychology.  In 2015 she defended his dissertation on a topic “Profile of Neuropsychic Development in Preschool Children” and holds a degree Doctor of Science in Psychology (Neuropsychology) at Sofia University. From 2018 she is a professor of Logopedics (Speech and Language Pathology) at the same university. Neli Vasileva is the supervisor of more than 10 doctoral students and more than 100 master’s projects of students from Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. She teaches various courses in neuropsychology, acquired aphasia, language developmental disorders and autism spectrum disorders. She is the author of more than 80 scientific publications in Bulgarian, Russian and English, including 2 monographs. Her scientific interests are in the areas of: neuropsychology, developmental dyslexia, acquired aphasia, childhood autism and neuropsychological diagnostics.