Dimitrios Kokaridas is a Professor in “exercise for people with disabilities” at the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science (DPESS), University of Thessaly in Greece. He is responsible for teaching and co-ordinating all undergraduate courses of adapted physical education since 2002 and the postgraduate course of "Psychology of Adapted Physical Activity" of the "European Master of Sport and Exercise Psychology" (EMSEP). He received his Bachelor degree at the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science (DPESS) of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1992), and the M.Ed. (1994) και Ph.D. degree (1997) in Special Education at the Victoria University of Manchester, UK. Dimitrios Kokaridas has extensive research activity in the field of exercise for people with disabilities with publications in refereed academic journals, congresses and conference proceedings.Furthermore, he is the author of four books and one chapter within book concerning adapted physical activity.  He is particularly interested in therapeutic swimming, exercise for people with psychiatric disorders and promoting inclusion of students with disabilities in typical classes. Finally, he continues to work towards bridging the gap between theory and real application of inclusion in practice as the creator and administrator of the first adapted physical education information base created in Greece (http://www.pe.uth.gr/efa).

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