It’s been several days, the MA Thesis defense of the full-time student started at the Pedagogical University.
Today, the 12 MA students of the Department of Logopaedics of the Faculty of Special Education introduced their research works.
The Examination Committee of the Faculty consisted of the leading specialist of the sphere of education special pedagogy- the Deputy Head of the National Institute of Education Anahit Bakhshyan, the President of the “Prkutyun/Salvation” NGO helping children with disabilities Arpinei Abrahamyan, the Head of the Deaf and Dumb Services of the Children and the Youth Health Center of the “Arabkir” medical complex Tamara Manoukyan, the Project Leader of the “World Vision Armenia” Yerevan office Marina Hovhannisyan presided by the Head of the Department of Physiology and Sport medicine of the Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture, Professor, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Doctor-Professor Marina Aghajanyan
Anahit Bakhshyan, the Deputy Head of the National Institute of Education, who was included into the committee for the first time, frankly mentions that today’s defenses made her change the opinion she once had about the University and taught a lot from the students themselves. “The presented postgraduate theses were actual, interesting and what is the most important, they can contribute to the development of special education. The correct pronunciation of speech gives a child the opportunity to be able to correctly write, and the presence of logopaedists at pre-schools institutions may be a guarantee to improve the child’s education quality. The opinions expressed by the students today, should reach both the field professionals and other competent persons.”
Moreover, Anahit Bakhshyan emphasized the cooperation of the Pedagogical University with the national Academy of Education assuring that despite the protestants, it will create a good perspective for an effective cooperation.
One of the graduates, Ani Gevorgyan is pleased with the results of her defense and is expecting an Excellent mark. In her subject “Development Peculiarities of Vocabulary and Grammatical Competences of Children with General Speech Underdevelopment” she referred to the arrangement of logopaedic activities with pre-school children with GSU: “In my thesis I highlighted the importance of activities of correcting the development of vocabulary and grammatical peculiarities trying to analyze the modern requirements and approaches of solving the speech problems of the learners. I think the research I did is in compliance with the context of the topic and all the requirements of writing postgraduate thesis.”
In her turn, Lilit Hakobyan was also excited. Her subject interested all the participants of the committee. In her research piece on the subject of “Peculiarities of the post-surgery logopaedic activities with persons with throat cancer” she tried to practically justify the purposefulness and the effectiveness of the logopaedic activities for the development of qualitative features of the voice of persons with complete throat deprivation undergoing prosthesis treatment. Anahit Bakhshyan also states that Lilit’s thesis topic may become a new branch of logopaedics in Armenia.
10 Excellent, 1 Good, 1 Satisfactory – the results of the examination please the Dean of the Faculty of Special Education Armenouhi Avagyan. As she assured the examination process was open and transparent, and the new information technologies helped to make the process of the defense more exciting.
By the end of the defense, Marina Aghajanyan, the President of the Committee mentioned to the armspu.am, “The graduates of the Faculty of Special Education were rich of theoretical knowledge. The works they presented were experimental and the ability to use the professional vocabulary in a literate way gave a big pleasure to me. I can surely state that most of them are already ready specialists.”
Let us also mention that the MA thesis defense of the Faculty of Special Education will continue until 15 February.
