Prof.Dr. Ahmet KONROT
SBF / Speech and Language Therapy - Head of Department / Director of ÜSESKOM
He was born in 1948 in Eskişehir. After graduating from Eskişehir Maarif College, he graduated from Gazi Education Institute English Department as an English Teacher. He worked as an English teacher at Siirt Batman High School and as an English Instructor at Eskişehir Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences. In the meantime, he won the exam opened by the Ministry of National Education and was sent to England. He received a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Essex. He completed his PhD in Linguistics (Experimental Phonetics) at the same university. After her PhD, she won the British Government Technical Assistance Scholarship and returned to Turkey after obtaining a Speech and Language Therapist License in London. Upon her return, she started working at Anadolu University Faculty of Education. She took part in the establishment of the Special Education Department at this faculty.
He became Assistant Professor in 1984, Associate Professor in 1988 and Professor in 1993. He gave undergraduate and graduate courses at Anadolu, Abant İzzet Baysal, Ankara and Osmangazi Universities. In 1998, he was appointed as a member of the High Board of Disabled People under the Prime Ministry by the Prime Minister of the time, representing the universities, and he left this position due to his retirement. He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the General Directorate of Social Services and Child Protection Agency. Between 1982 and 2000, he was a member of the Association of Speech and Language Therapists of Great Britain. In April 1999, she voluntarily retired from her position at the university and started working as a Speech and Language Therapist. In 2000, she returned to Anadolu University as a faculty member of the Faculty of Education, Department of Special Education. At the same time, while working at the Language and Speech Disorders Education, Application and Research Center, he was appointed as the director of the Integrated School for the Disabled in 2003. Between 2005-2014, he worked as a faculty member at TRNC Eastern Mediterranean University Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences.
In June 2014, he started to work as a full-time faculty member at Üsküdar University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Speech and Language Therapy and was appointed as the head of this department.
Prof. Konrot, who is a founding member of the Association of Speech and Language Disorders Specialists and a member of the Association of Special Educators, is married and has one child.