MA, speech and language therapist Joanna Kaski will defend her PhD thesis on 31th of May 2024. The title of the thesis is Shared social-emotional difficulties of children with different neurodevelopmental disorders and intervention outcomes with the Emotion Detectives gam.

MA, speech and language therapist Eija Aalto defended her PhD thesis on 10th of February 2023. The title of the thesis is Phonological skills in children acquiring Finnish at 3;6 and the associations with lexical, auditory word recognition, and pre-reading skills.

Lic.Phil., specialized speech and language therapist Anna-Leena Martikainen will defend her PhD thesis on 17nd of September 2021 (at 12 o’clock). You can follow the thesis defence using the following remote video connection: https://oulu.zoom.us/j/63488951505

MA, speech and language therapist Lea Partanen will defend her PhD thesis on 7nd of May 2021 (at 12 o’clock). Since the premises of the University of Oulu are closed, the defend will be carried out using remote connection. Zoom link: https://oulu.zoom.us/j/64619104599

Soile Loukusa’s research group got a 4-year Academy Project Funding from Research Council for Culture and Society to the project Pragmatic communication and its interplay with the theory of mind and executive function skills in typical development and autism spectrum … Read more

PhD student Sini Smolander got a one-year junior researcher funding from the Emil Aaltonen Foundation.

Research Unit of Logopedics got funding from the Social Insurance Institution of Finland for the project ’ Application of GAS-method in medical speech and language therapy.

MA Elina Niemitalo-Haapola will defend her PhD thesis on 2nd of June 2017 (at 12 o’clock in the lecture hall HU106).

Swantje Zachau will defend her PhD thesis on 8th October 2016 (at 12 o’clock in the lecture hall HU207).

MA Laura Kanto will defend her PhD thesis on 27th May 2016 (at 12 o’clock in the lecture hall HU106).