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Rikke Vang Christensen

  • Emil Holms Kanal 2

    2300 København S

Personal profile

Short presentation

As a researcher and trained SLT (Speech and Language Therapist), I focus on children's language disorders. I am interested in (1) the characteristics of these disorders (e.g. grammatical features of particular difficulty for Danish children with Developmental Language Disorder); (2) identification of language learning impairments (e.g. the potential of language processing tasks such as nonword and sentence repetition), and (3) intervention (the effect of exlicit intervention on the language skills, particularly vocabulary and syntax, in school-age children with DLD).  Furthermore, I am interested in the consequences of language disorders for communication, participation in everyday activities and learning. 

 

Current research

  • I am co-PI on a large research project funded by The Independent Research Fund Denmark. In the project, The making of stronger readers: The role of syntactic proficiency in understanding texts, we investigate the role of syntax comprehension for reading comprehension in school-aged children. My role in the project is to develop and test a syntax intervention and to investigate the effects of the intervention on syntax comprehension and on reading comprehension.

Teaching

I teach courses in children's language disorders and related subjects and supervise e.g. BA projects and master's theses within the field of (developmental) language disorders. 

CV

Education

2010: PhD, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
2004: MA in Audiologopaedics, University of Copenhagen

Employment

2016- Associate Professor, Dept. of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen

2016: Speech and Language Therapist at Børnekliniken (The Children's Clinic), Copenhagen

2012-2015: Postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen

2011: Speech and Language Therapist in the municipal borough Rødovre

2010: External lecturer and research assistant, Dept. of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen

2007-2009: PhD scholar, Dept. of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen

2004-2006: Speech and Language Therapist in the municipal borough Brøndby

External positions

Speech and Language Therapist, Børnekliniken (KAS-leverandør til VISO)

1 Jan 201631 Dec 2016

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • language learning impairment
  • specific language impairment (SLI)
  • childrens’ grammatical difficulties
  • childrens’ lexical difficulties

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