Sofia Strömbergsson

Associate professor, docent, combined with employment as a speech-language pathologist at Logopedkliniken, Danderyds sjukhus.

I completed my doctoral degree in 2014 at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (KTH), with a thesis focusing on perceptual consequences of misarticulated speech in children – how these children’s speech is perceived by adult listeners and by the children themselves.

Apart from my M.Sc degree in SLP, I also have a M.Sc degree in computational linguistics.

My research primarily concerns children's speech and language disorders, with a specific focus on everyday consequences, for example, in terms of making oneself understood, and participating in communication. In the project SPETS (project web page in Swedish), we explore how speech/language intervention affects language functioning and communication in daily life for children with developmental language disorder (DLD).

I also have a background and interest in speech technology, and particularly, how it can be used in speech-language therapy and research. In TEFLON, I collaborate with other Nordic colleagues in the development of a speech-training app, intended for use for learners of the Nordic languages, as well as for children with speech sound disorder (SSD).

My research also extends to other areas of speech-language pathology. For example, I run the project Samklang (project web page in Swedish), which addresses work-related voice problems.

• Program director for the Study Programme in Speech and Language Pathology, since 2022
• Responsible for the webpage PUMA, a national speech-language pathology e-learning platform
• Responsible for various courses at the Study Programme in Speech and Language Pathology; particularly involved in courses relating to children's typical and atypical speech and language acquisition, for example Speech and Language Disorders in Children and Youth 1.
• Regularly supervises Master theses (30 credits, advanced level).
• Proud supervisor of current PhD student Sara Burge, and of graduated PhDs Anna Nyman and Carla Wikse Barrow.
• Responsible for the development of the advanced/PhD level course Documentation, Processing and Analysis of Linguistic Data.
• Leading a pedagogical project concerning the development of the Study Programme in Speech and Language Pathology at KI during 2014-2016.
• During 2014-2016 guest lecturer at the Department of linguistics and philology at Uppsala university.