Living with a communicative disability
Communication problems may occur as a result of a number of conditions and diseases such as developmental language disorder (DLD), hearing loss, stroke and dementia. How these communicative disabilities affect everyday communication varies, but communication is often described as very problematic by both the people who have the disability and by their significant others.
Being able to communicate is important for social participation, activity and for being able to exercise one's personal citizenship. Within the project group, we have a common focus on the consequences of communicative disabilities in everyday life. Our theoretical frameworks are based on a dialogical perspective, and we use, inter alia, multimodal interaction analysis.
Within the project group, we have a common focus on the consequences of communicative disabilities in everyday life. Our theoretical frameworks are based on a dialogical perspective, and we use, inter alia, multimodal interaction analysis. The area of the project group includes both research concerning children with developmental communicative disabilities and research with adults with acquired diseases and injuries. We are also investigating how to use digital technology to support communication, especially for people with dementia.
An important part of the group's research in all subprojects is to increase the ecological validity in speech language pathology (SLP) practice; by focusing on people's everyday lives, we may contribute to SLP interventions being designed to have an impact on individuals' opportunities to participate in social interaction, make decisions about their own person and to exercise an active citizenship. In one of the group's sub-projects, results of linguistic and cognitive tests are compared with everyday interaction, and the results put forward the importance of also including everyday interaction in SLP assessment.
Project group members
| Namn | Titel | Funktion |
|---|---|---|
| Christina Samuelsson | Professor | Project group leader |
| Elias Ingebrand | SLP | Post doc |
In collaboration with
| Namn | Titel | Funktion | 尝盲谤辞蝉盲迟别 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lars-Christer Hyd茅n | Professor | Researcher | Link枚pings University |
| Bj枚rn Lyxell | Professor | Researcher | Oslo University |
| Henrik Danielsson | Professor | Researcher | Link枚pings University |
| Charlotta Plejert | Ass. professor | Researcher | Link枚pings University |
| Anna Ekstr枚m | Ass. professor | Researcher | Link枚pings University |
| Birgitta Sahl茅n | Professor | Researcher | Lunds University |
| Olof Sandgren | Ass. professor | Researcher | Lunds University |
| Karin Myrberg | SLP | Researcher | Region G盲vleborg |
| Sophia Lindeberg | SLP | PhD student | Link枚pings University |
Projects
- Early lexical development and development of gestures in children with typical development, children with cochlear implants and children with developmental language disorder
The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council and its overall purpose is: To generate knowledge that provides better conditions for the care of children with language impairment and Swedish- and foreign-born deaf/hearing-impaired children with cochlear implants (CI).
Selected publications
Samuelsson C, Ferm U, Ekstrom A CLINICAL GERONTOLOGIST 2021;44(4):418-429
Ingebrand E, Samuelsson C, Hyd茅n Lc Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology 2020;():1-10
Tablet computer-supported conversation between people with dementia and their carers: technology as interactional focus
Ferm U, Ekstrom A, Larsson E, Samuelsson C UNIVERSAL ACCESS IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY 2020
Samuelsson C, Ekstrom A LOGOPEDICS PHONIATRICS VOCOLOGY 2019;44(1):41-50
Different approaches in aphasia assessments: a comparison between test and everyday conversations
Myrberg K, Hyden Lc, Samuelsson C APHASIOLOGY 2018;32(4):417-435
Samuelsson C, Hyden Lc INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY 2017;19(5):454-464
Sundstrom S, Lyxell B, Samuelsson C INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY 2019;21(6):623-634
Phonological and grammatical production in children with developmental language disorder and children with hearing impairment
Sundstrom S, Lofkvist U, Lyxell B, Samuelsson C CHILD LANGUAGE TEACHING & THERAPY 2018;34(3):289-302
Sundstr枚m S, L枚fkvist U, Lyxell B, Samuelsson C Clinical linguistics & phonetics 2018;32(10):950-971