Principal investigator
Tinatin Chincharauli
tinatin.chincharauli@iliauni.edu.ge
PhD in Psychology, Director of Child Development Institute at Ilia State University ISU (www.cdi.iliauni.edu.ge). Prof. Tchintcharauli is a child clinical neuropsychologist and also holds Board Certificate in Behavior Analyses (BCBA). She leads 3 different BA and MA programs (BA program in Psychology, MA program in Special Education and MA program in Clinilal Psychology) at ISU. She also teaches different courses in these fields mainly research methods, cognitive psychology and developmental neuropsychology. Tinatin Tchintcharauli has over 18 years experience in clinical work with children and adults with different types of developmental disabilities and brain injuries. Part of her clinical practice involves providing neuropsychological assessment and supervising neuropsychological habilitation process. Since 2006 Prof. Tchintcharauli has been involved in the development of Inclusive Education Model in Georgia. Since 2011 she has participated in the development and provision of services for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. From 2014 she is intesely involved in the development of communication, speech and language therapy as a profession in Georgia.

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Project Coordinatior:
Nino Tsintsadze
nino.tsintsadze@iliauni.edu.ge
Head of Communication, Language and Speech Therapy Masters Program at ISU. Head of Early Intervention Program at Ilia State University Child development Institute. Since 2006 her fields of experience and expertise are child development, early language development and communication early intervention, inclusive education. Nino Tsintsadze has a big experience in coordinating field related international big-scale projects. Since 2014 she is actively involved in development of a new profession in Georgia: Communication, Language and Speech Therapy. Currently she is a haed of an ERASMUS+ project ABC Assisting Better Communication which unifies 12 Universities and 4 organizations of 6 countries aiming enhancement of Communication, speech and language related academic programs. Author of a guideline “Communication, language and speech in early education settings”, (Ilia State University Publishing house, 2015); Guide-book for early education teacher, co-author (National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement, Tbilisi 2015); Kindergartens Curriculum based activities, co-author (Ilia State University Publishing house, 2011).

Nino Doborjginidze

nino_doborjginidze@iliauni.edu.ge

is a linguist, director of the Institute for Linguistic Research. She leads various projects related to computational linguistics and digital humanities Her experience is highly relevant in terms of creating CHILDES based corpora for Georgian Language acquisition. She is a supervisor of master programs in applied linguistics and first doctoral program in Georgia in digital humanities. She was a project director of following projects: Corpus of Georgian Language http://corpora.iliauni.edu.ge/ ; Corpus of Georgian Epigraphy http://epigraphy.iliauni.edu.ge/ ; Prosopography of 20th century Georgia http://prosopography.iliauni.edu.ge/; Prosopography of the Society for the Spread of Literacy among the Georgians http://society.iliauni.edu.ge/

 The Young Researchers
Teona Damenia
teona.damenia@iliauni.edu.ge
PhD Student at Ilia State University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, digital humanity, computer and corpus linguistics; from 2012 till today she works as a researcher at Ilia State University’s Institute for Linguistic Studies, on analyze and annotation of computational programs for Georgian Language. From 2017 till today she works at Ilia State University’s faculty of Arts and Sciences, she teaches Georgian as a second language. Summer school in linguistics During 2012-2014 she participated in Volkswagen funded project, “Armazi, Caucasian Languages and Culture, Digitalization” as a researcher. Her PHD Thesis is about children’s phonological development. She has experience of transcribing and analyzing recorded audio and video data and working with children of age 12-24 months.

Tamar Kalkhitashvili
tamar.kalkhitashvili.1@iliauni.edu.ge
has obtained MA degree in Applaied Linguistics in the Ilia State University and is enrolled on PhD program of Digital Humanities. She has been a research assistant at the Institute of Linguistic research of Ilia State University since 2014, where she was coordinating research project "Epigraphic Corpus of Georgia". Tamar Kalkhitashvili has relevant knowledge of the technologies for digital pubilishing and corpus linguistics. On September 9-14, 2018 she will participate in Oxford XML Summer School.

Research Assistant

Alexander Abramishvili
babdusi@gmail.com
Student of the MA program in Applied Linguistics at Ilia State University. Alexander is interested in computer processing of the Georgian language and participated in the university project QartNLP.

Marika Ishkhanova
marika.ishkhanova.1@iliauni.edu.ge
2013 წლიდან მუშაობს ილიას უნივერსიტეტის ლინგვისტურ კვლევათა ცენტრში კვლევის ასისტენტად. 2015 წლიდან სწავლა დაიწყო ილიას სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის გამოყენებითი ენათმეცნიერების პროგრამაზე, რომელიც დაასრულა 2018 წელს მაგისტრის ხარისხით.