Kati Renvall
PhD, Adjunct Professor (FIN: dosentti) Senior Lecturer
katren@utu.fi Assistentinkatu 7 Turku : 330 |
cognitive neuropsychology, speech therapy, acquired neurological language/communication disorders, assessment of communication disorders, treatment of communcation disorders, word-finding/word retrieval disorders (anomia), aphasia
Language Processing in Adults (LaPA) project
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.
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.
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).
- Factor structure and clinical applicability of new semantic tasks in Alzheimer’s disease and aphasia (2024)
- Applied Neuropsychology Adult
- Efficacy of clustering and switching strategies in verbal fluency tasks in a Finnish-English language attrition population (2023)
- Language Learning Journal
- Frequent native language use supports phonemic and semantic verbal fluency in L1 and L2: An extended analysis of verbal fluency task performance in an L1 language attrition population (2023)
- International Journal of Bilingualism
- Afasian kuntoutus – Hyvät puheterapiakäytännöt (2022) Tiensuu Jutta, Manninen Riitta-Leena, Lemmetyinen Sanna, Rantanen Johanna, Taipale Saara, Renvall Kati
- Is Old Age Just a Number in Language Skills? Language Performance and Its Relation to Age, Education, Gender, Cognitive Screening, and Dentition in Very Old Finnish Speakers (2022)
- Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Using treatment to improve the production of emotive adjectives in aphasia: a single-case study (2019)
- Aphasiology
- Sanaston valinta kielelliseen kuntoutukseen (2017) Afasia: Aikuisiän kielihäiriöiden aivoperusta ja kuntoutus Kati Renvall
- Do we treat functionally relevant items in aphasia therapy? – Current challenges and new tools (2013) 29th World Congress of the IALP: Where practice meets science Renvall K, Nickels L, Davidson B
- Functionally relevant items in the treatment of aphasia (part I): Challenges for current practice (2013)
- Aphasiology
- Functionally relevant items in the treatment of aphasia (part II): Further perspectives and specific tools (2013)
- Aphasiology
- Nimeämisen kuntoutus (2010) Kieli ja aivot Renvall K
- Treatment of anomia with contextual priming: Exploration of a modified procedure with additional semantic and phonological tasks (2007)
- Aphasiology
- Effectiveness of contextual repetition priming treatments for anomia depends on intact access to semantics (2006)
- Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
- Contextual priming in semantic anomia: A case study (2005)
- Brain and Language
- Learning new names for new objects: Cortical effects as measured by magnetoencephalography (2004)
- Brain and Language
- Anomia treatment with contextual priming: A case study (2003)
- Aphasiology
- Naming Multiple Objects: Neural Correlates as Measured by Positron Emission Tomography (2003)
- Applied Neuropsychology
