Associate Professor at Ilia State University and Director of the Child Development Institute.

In 2006, she founded Georgia’s first early intervention program. In 2017, in collaboration with several European universities, she developed and now directs the country’s first master’s program in speech and language therapy.

She contributed to the development of a language acquisition corpus for Georgian-speaking children and continues her research in this field of language acquisition.

Her work focuses on early inclusive education, and she is co-author of Georgia’s early education curriculum.

Research interests: language acquisition, early intervention, and early education.