Ahmet Bildiren

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Bildiren is a faculty member at Aydın Adnan Menderes University's Faculty of Education, specializing in Special Education and Education for the Specially Gifted. His academic career spans over two decades, with a focus on identifying gifted children through non-verbal cognitive assessments and addressing dual exceptionalities (giftedness and learning disabilities).

• Education: Licence from Marmara University (Classroom Teaching, 1999), MA in Guidance and Psychological Counseling from Dokuz Eylul University (2003), PhD in Special Education from Ankara University (2016)

His research dominates two key areas:

• Development and validation of non-verbal cognitive ability tests like BNV-II and TONI-3
• Analyzing learning disabilities diagnosis accuracy in Turkish education systems

Recent publications highlight his work on STEM interventions for students with learning challenges, early childhood gifted identification, and preschool teacher perspectives on dual exceptionalities. He has also contributed to software tools for gifted education and standardized testing for 0-9 age groups.