A warm welcome to our Swedish collaborators

 

Since spring 2020 Sweden, represented by three researchers, has joined the EST-project. Main Swedish coordinator is Tove Lagerberg, assistant professor with a position as coordinator of the Speech and Language Pathology program at Gothenburg University https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/tovelagerberg, Ineke Samson, doctoral student and SLP, Karolinska Institute and Danderyd Hospital https://medarbetare.ki.se/people/inesam  and Anita McAllister, associate professor and SLP, Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital https://medarbetare.ki.se/people/anitmc .

So who are we? We are all SLP’s with extensive expertise in different speech and language disorders primarily within children and teenagers. 

Tove Lagerberg has clinical experience and research experience concerning fluency disorders and intelligibility assessment. She has been coordinator of specialist medical care for children and adults who stutter (Intensive Stuttering Therapy). Tove has also been a member of international networks such as European Clinical Specialization in Fluency Disorders (ECSF) and Stuttering Research and education network (STUREN). 

Ineke Samson, is recognized as a specialist in accordance with criteria developed by the ECSF and has clinical experience from almost twenty years in the field of fluency disorders. She also has an ongoing teaching assignment at the Study program in Speech and Language Pathology at Karolinska Institute, responsible for the content and structure of theory, practice and assessment of fluency disorders. 

Anita McAllister has extensive clinical and research experience by supervising doctoral students, leading and participating in research and by clinical patient work. She started and coordinated a multi-professional specialist clinic for patients with oral motor and speech motor disorders. 

 

In addition to the expertise within the field of stuttering, the Swedish researchers contribute knowledge within intelligibility and oral motor and speech motor disorders. By joining the project also Swedish children with stuttering will be included in the up-coming clinical trial. Children will be recruited from different clinics in the larger Stockholm and Gothenburg area. 

We are very excited to be part of this clinically important and valuable project and recognize the important work that has been done to date by the researcher’s in the EST-project. The results from the clinical trial will be looked forward to by many clinicians within the field with great expectations.

The EST team warmly welcomes our Swedish colleagues.