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 was also 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 investigated the role of syntax comprehension for reading comprehension in school-aged children. My role in the project was 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