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 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. This has been the focus in the (now finished) project Functional consequences of misarticulation in children's continuous speech. 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).

• 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.