I am interested in research in aphasia which has potential impact on the field of practice of aphasia rehabilitation. This includes methods in speech-language therapy for evaluating aphasia and ints consequences for the individual as well as methods of training and rehabilitation targeting communication or broader psychosocial issues.

My research is presented in the Faculty of Humanities' publication Impact of humanities research: 24 cases.

• Rehabilitation of aphasia
• Supported Conversation for People with Aphasia as a method of communication partner training
• Psykosocial approaches to aphasia (community and work reintegration)
• Assessment of aphasia and its consequences in speech-language therapy
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis of connected speech production in aphasia
  
  

My current research is on methods of training communication partners of people with aphasia, which target significant others or health care professionals: How may these methods be implemented in clinical field of practice, what are the appropriate outcome measures and how may current training methods be refined or improved. See network collaboration on Supporting communicative participation of individuals with aphasia.

Implementation of supported conversation in the Department of Neurology, RIgshospitalet-Glostrup. The department'sl Communication Team received the Gerry Cormier Communicative Access Award in September 2017 for reducing communicative barriers for hospitalized patients with aphasia. 

• Language Disorders: Aphasia
• Elicitation and analysis of connected speech production in adult langauge disorders
• Communication handicaps and special education
  
  

Student project supervision

• Communication partner training
• Assesssment and rehabilitation of aphasia
• Qualitative research in psychosocial consequences of communication handicap
• Qualitative and quantitative analysis of connected speech production in adult langauge disorders
  
  

EMPLOYMENT

1999- Associate Professor in Audiologopedics at Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen 

1996-99 Adjunct Professor in Audiologopedics at Institute for Applied and General Linguistics, University of Copenhagen

1987-96 Clinical speech-language therapist, Center for Rehabilitation of Brain Injury, Copenhagen

1986-87 Research fellowship from the Danish Medical Research Council, affiliated with Center for Rehabilitation of Brain Injury, Copenhagen

1982-85 University fellowship in Speech and Hearing Science at Graduate Center of City University of New York. Enrolled in Ph.D-programme

EDUCATION

1991 Ph.D. (Speech and Hearing Science), City University of New York (1991)

1985 M.A. (Speech and Hearing Science), City University of New York (1985)

1982 Cand. Phil. (English Studies) University of Copenhagen