Ivana Lessner Listiakova

Senior Lecturer in Education (SEN and Inclusion), University of Northampton, Special Education Needs & Inclusion
Centre for Education and Research

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6942-2485

Emailivana.lessnerlistiakova@northampton.ac.uk

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Biography

Dr Ivana Lessner Listiakova is a Senior Lecturer at the Special Educational Needs and Inclusion Department, Faculty of Education, University of Northampton. Her expertise is in inclusive education, learning support, sensory processing difficulties and sensory strategies. She has worked with international schools providing support to teachers, families and children with ASD and learning difficulties. She has conducted trainings for teachers and other helping professionals in sensory integration as well as the use of expressive arts therapies. She previously worked at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia and Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. She was a national coordinator in several LLP Leonardo da Vinci projects focused on early childhood intervention (ECI2.0, ICF-TRAIN) and mental health in families (Kids Strengths). She has got a PhD in Pre-school and Primary Education and a Master's degree in Therapeutic Education.

Research Interests

She has been involved in research projects focused on evaluating a range of practices in expressive art therapies - specifically drama therapy and art therapy, and the use of multisensory approaches, focusing on the needs of teachers in inclusive education, young people in social care facilities, and adults in mental health rehabilitation clinics. She is currently working on research projects exploring experiences of families living autism and teacher trainings in autism.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Comenius University

Award Date: 27 Aug 2012

Master, Comenius University

Award Date: 18 May 2009

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Research Output

29 Chapter
14 Conference Contribution
13 Article
3 Book
7 More

In-service education and training for teachers regarding autism spectrum disorder: a review of the literature.

Lessner Listiakova, I. & Preece, D., 6 May 2020, In : Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis: Studia Psychologica. 12, p. 177-199 23 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

Open Access

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Living with Autism in Rural Coastal England

Preece, D. & Lessner Listiakova, I., 18 Aug 2020, (Accepted/In press) 6 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report

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Training needs in the field of autism of contemporary Polish teachers in the context of the international ASD-EAST project

Kossewska, J., Preece, D., Lisak, N., Bombińska-Domżał, A., Cierpiałowska, T., Lessner Listiakova, I., Lubińska-Kościółek, E., Niemiec, S., Płoszaj, M., Stošić, J. & Troshanska, J., 7 Jan 2020, In : Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach. 1, 9, p. 82-92 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

Open Access

ASD-EAST: Identifying training needs of specialized teachers

Lessner Listiakova, I., Preece, D., Stošić, J., Lisak, N., Troshanska, J., Petkovska Nikolovska, A., Kossewska, J., Cierpiałowska, T., Bombińska-Domżał, A., Lubińska-Kościółek, E., Niemiec, S. & Ploszaj, M., 13 Sep 2019.

Research output: Contribution to Conference › Poster

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Autizmus a senzorické stratégie

Translated title of the contribution: Autism and sensory strategiesLessner Listiakova, I., 31 Dec 2019, Comenius University in Bratislava. 160 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Developing training for teachers to support the inclusion in education of pupils with autism spectrum disorder in Eastern Europe and the Balkans

Troshanska, J., Petkovska Nikolovska, A., Lessner Listiakova, I., Stošić, J., Lisak, N., Kossewska, J., Cierpiałowska, T., Bombińska-Domżał, A., Lubińska-Kościółek, E., Niemiec, S., Płoszaj, M. & Preece, D., 16 May 2019, p. 53-58. 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper

Open Access

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Empowering Teachers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (European ASD-EAST project)

Preece, D., Kossewska, J., Cierpiałowska, T., Lubińska-Kościółek, E., Bombińska-Domżał, A., Niemiec, S., Płoszaj, M., Lessner Listiakova, I., Stošić, J., Lisak, N. & Troshanska, J., 19 Mar 2019.

Research output: Contribution to Conference › Poster

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Gallery as an explicit stimulation environment in the development of artistic talent

Valachová, D., Lessner Listiakova, I. & Kováčová, B., 14 Sep 2019, In : Muzeologia a Kulturne Dedicstvo. 7, 2, p. 49-62 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

Open Access

Activities

11 Oral presentation
9 Editorial work
6 Hosting an Academic Visitor
1 Participating in a conference or workshop
3 More

Evaluation methodology for development projects

Ivana Lessner Listiakova (Author) & David Preece (Author)

12 Jun 2020

Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Oral presentation › Research

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Developing curriculums and training materials internationally – lessons about communication and collaboration from ASD-EAST

Ivana Lessner Listiakova (Author) & David Preece (Author)

16 Jun 2020

Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Oral presentation › Research

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100 Jubilee of Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ss Cyril & Methodius

David Preece (Participant), Jasmina Troshanska (Participant), Natalija Lisak Segota (Participant), Ivana Lessner Listiakova (Participant) & Ana Petkovska Nikolovska (Participant)

4 Sep 2020

Activity: Participating in or organising a conference or workshop › Participating in a conference or workshop › Research

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