Kajsa Söderhielm

I graduated as a speech language pathologist/therapist from Göteborg  university in 2002. My professional career has focused on brain injury rehabilitation. In 2020 I earned my formal specialisation within the area of aquired language disorders. I have also worked as a rehabilitation and care developer at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Stockholm, Danderyd University Hospital. In 2025 I defended my thesis entitled Supporting person-centred, team-based stroke rehabilitation with ICT: implementation and evaluation of F@ce 2.0

I am a post doctoral researcher at KI and at Gothenburg university since 2025. I am presently involved in two research projects - ASSIST 2.0 and Strokehälsa. The ASSIST prioject developes and studies reablment in a Swedish context. Strokehälsa is a project focused on supporting stroke survivors to prepare for follow-up visits. This specific sub-project is focused on the usability of a version of Strokehälsa for people experienceing communivative impariment after stroke.

I teach in the areas of language and communication after acquired brain injury and I'm a certified trainer in Supported Conversation for Adults with
Aphasia. I do most of my teaching at the speech pathology-, psychology- and physiotherapyprograms at Karolinska institutet. I also lecture regulary at
various events and conferences.