Anna Eva Hallin

Anna Eva Hallin

Assistant Professor
Telephone: +46852483620
Visiting address: Blickagången 9 A, Enheten för logopedi F67, 14186 Stockholm
Postal address: H9 Klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik, H9 CLINTEC Logopedi, 141 52 Huddinge
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About me

  • I am an assistant professor at the Division of Speech and Language Pathology, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology at the Karolinska Institutet (KI) since September 2021. Before that I was a postdoctoral researcher at the same division. I earned my Ph.D. in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from New York University (2016).

    July 2025-January 2027 I am a Visiting Fellow at Southern Cross University, Faculty of Health, Australia, where I lead the research project INCLUDE, funded by the Swedish Research Council.

    I received my Swedish professional degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Karolinska Institutet in 2007, and am a licensed speech-language pathologist (Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare). In my clinical work I have mainly worked with school-aged children, adolescents and adults with developmental language disorder and developmental reading disability / dyslexia.

    For more information about me and my research, please visit my portfolio page (link to the left).

Research

  • My research interests are mainly in the area of language, reading and writing development and language disorders in children and adolescents. I have a particular interest in how different contexts affects language use, as well as language learning and processing from an emergenist and dynamical systems perspective. My main aim is to inform clincial and classroom practice. I collaborate with many researchers across Sweden, in the US and in Australia and you can find a description of all ongoing projects in my portfolio.

Teaching

  • At Karolinska Institutet am teaching and developing the SLP-program course on language, reading, and writing difficulties in school-age children. I am a recurrent guest lecturer in the Karolinska Institutet Psychology program, the Stockholm University Special Education Teacher program and for an advanced level course at Uppsala University.  In addition, I am currently supervising several theses projects and I am co-supervising a doctoral student in speech-language pathology.

    At NYU I served as an adjunct instructor for the master level courses Language Disorders in Children (2012) och Language Development and Disorders in School-Age Children (2013-2015). 

    In 2015 I started a research blog (in Swedish) with the aim to make language research accessible for clinicians, teachers and parents.

Articles

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Grants

  • Interprofessional Coaching to Enhance Language and Learning in Secondary Classrooms Using Digital Education for Teachers (INCLUDE)
    The Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2025 - 31 March 2028
    NCLUDE aims to enhance learning and participation in secondary classrooms through a digital teacher professional development program called LINK-D, where teachers get techniques to modify their oral and written instructional language and increase direct vocabulary instruction. We build on an Australian manualized intervention with documented positive effects on student language/literacy scores and teacher behavior, and high teacher satisfaction. INCLUDE will advance current knowledge by 1) determining program effectiveness for various student groups, including L2-learners and students with/without language difficulties, and measure effects on subject-matter knowledge and participation in addition to language/literacy skills, 2) explore associations between teacher use and student perception of specific program techniques and outcomes, and 3) compare student and teacher effects with/without interprofessional coaching by a speech language pathologist. After program development and a proof-of concept study (year 1-2), LINK-D will be evaluated in a clustered randomized controlled trial including 48 teachers and their 8th grade students (year 2-4). We will use a mixed- method approach where qualitative analyses of survey responses and video-recorded learning activities will complement quantitative analyses. INCLUDE will expand our knowledge about effective and scalable TPD that help mainstream teachers meet the needs of secondary students with language and literacy difficulties.
  • Jerringfonden
    1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025
  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2025 - 31 December 2028
    INCLUDE aims to enhance learning and participation in secondary classrooms through a digital teacher professional development program called LINK-D, where teachers get techniques to modify their oral and written instructional language and increase direct vocabulary instruction. We build on an Australian manualized intervention with documented positive effects on student language/literacy scores and teacher behavior, and high teacher satisfaction. INCLUDE will advance current knowledge by 1) determining program effectiveness for various student groups, including L2-learners and students with/without language difficulties, and measure effects on subject-matter knowledge and participation in addition to language/literacy skills, 2) explore associations between teacher use and student perception of specific program techniques and outcomes, and 3) compare student and teacher effects with/without interprofessional coaching by a speech language pathologist. After program development and a proof-of concept study (year 1-2), LINK-D will be evaluated in a clustered randomized controlled trial including 48 teachers and their 8th grade students (year 2-4). We will use a mixed-method approach where qualitative analyses of survey responses and video-recorded learning activities will complement quantitative analyses. INCLUDE will expand our knowledge about effective and scalable TPD that help mainstream teachers meet the needs of secondary students with language and literacy difficulties.
  • Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
    1 January 2023 - 31 December 2025
    The focus of this project is language processing in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and bilingual children learning Swedish as their second language (L2). DLD is characterized by difficulty learning a native language and is associated with poor literacy learning and academic development. Children with DLD and children learning Swedish as L2 are similarly challenged by Swedish grammar. Given the centrality of language to academic success and social-emotional development, it is imperative that clinicians and educators have access to evidence-based recommendations. Comprehension depends on rapid analysis and integration of different aspects of linguistic information including the sound, word and sentence levels. Studies from other languages have shown that children use the cues provided in the article to retrieve nouns. We investigate the link between comprehension and production of the challenging Swedish noun phrase construction, which has two genders (en/ett, den /det), in sentences with different grammatical complexity. We let children produce noun phrases, measure their vocabulary skills and study processing skills in a picture identification task while tracking their eye gaze. Visual attention and auditory stimuli are closely time-locked
    an eye-tracker monitors visual attention using non-invasive technology. More knowledge about how children use the gender cues provided in the article may affect how we support word learning.
  • Jerringfonden
    1 January 2023 - 31 December 2023
  • EXPLORE-SA: Expository language and oral retelling in Swedish adolescents.
    Anita Börjeson's Foundation
    1 January 2017

Employments

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2021-2027

Degrees and Education

  • Ph.D., Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Language Processing and Awareness in Swedish School-Age Children with and without Language Impairment, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, New York University, 2016
  • Master Of Medical Science, Karolinska Institutet, 2007
  • Master Of Science In Speech Pathology And Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, 2007

Visiting research fellowships

  • Visiting Fellow, Southern Cross University, 2025-2025

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