Monica Blom Johansson

Academic merits:
PhD

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I am a senior lecturer and program committee chairman for the Speech Therapy program at the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences. I teach mainly about aphasia and scientific method. In addition, I supervise students at master's and doctoral level. My research mainly concerns psychosocial consequences of aphasia and how to provide support and conversational training to relatives. My position also includes a clinical part at the University Hospital.

Biography

Presentation of role/work tasks
My research focuses on ”living with aphasia”, in particular the situation of the significant others and what could be done to support them. Further, I am interested in how communicative strategies could be practiced in order to facilitate conversations with a person with aphasia, and if such training could increase the well-being of both the person with aphasia and the significant other. This work demands valid and reliable measures, which is another area of interest.

Job related achievement
I have previously been working as a speech-language pathologist with persons with aphasia at geriatric as well as rehabilitation medicine wards. I defended my doctoral thesis “Aphasia and communication in everyday life” (see below) in 2012. I am head of the Speech-Language Pathology Program at the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences.

Teaching
At the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, I teach about aphasia rehabilitation, qualitative research methods and supervises thesis’s (MSc in speech-language pathology) as well as PhD students.

Research

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Min forskning fokuserar på ”hur det är att leva med afasi”, särskilt hur situationen ser ut för de närstående och vad man kan göra för att underlätta deras situation. Vidare är jag intresserad av hur kommunikationsstrategier kan tränas in för att underlätta samtal med en person med afasi och huruvida en sådan träning kan främja såväl dennes som samtalspartnerns välbefinnande. Ett sådant arbete kräver valida och reliabla bedömningsinstrument, vilket jag också ägnar mig åt att ta fram.

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Monica Blom Johansson

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