Kati Renvall
 PhD, Adjunct Professor (FIN: dosentti) Senior Lecturer


katren@utu.fi

Assistentinkatu 7

Turku

Office: 330


ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3329-4602

Areas of expertise
cognitive neuropsychology, speech therapy, acquired neurological language/communication disorders, assessment of communication disorders, treatment of communcation disorders, word-finding/word retrieval disorders (anomia), aphasia

Research community or research topic
Language Processing in Adults (LaPA) project

Biography

I am a speech pathologist and PhD in psychology. I work as a senior lecturer at the University of Turku and hold titles of Title of Docent (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Honorary Senior Research Fellow (Macquarie University, Australia). My areas of expertise include cognitive neuropsychology of language, aphasia, word-finding, anomia, assessment and treatment of adult neurogenic language disorders. I supervise BA, MA and PhD research/theses.



Research
My ultimate research aims could be summarised as an attempt to develop "theoretically motivated, clinically possible, and functionally relevant intervention programs for people with aphasia and other neurogenic communication disorders". I am particularly interested in word retrieval, its impairments (anomia), and treatment. I mainly use methodology adopted from the cognitive neuropsychological approach. However, I am also curious what the modern brain imaging technology has to offer. Currently, I am conducting studies which will hopefully provide valuable insights into extending word retrieval treatment from concrete nouns - as in traditional speech therapy - to more abstract concepts, such as adjectives. 

Teaching

I have experience of teaching at the university level since 2006 and I have taught dozens of courses at the basic, intermediate and advanced level at the University of Turku (Finland) and I have also held several lectures and research colloquia at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). I have completed University pedagogics module I (25 ECTS at the University of Turku, Finland, 2008–2010) and similar courses (e.g., “Colloquium for Research Supervision 1; CRS1” training course) during my postdoctoral studies 2010-2013 at Macquarie University (Australia).



Publications

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