Frida Johanne Holmen

Frida Johanne Holmen is a researcher at the Department of Special Education, University of Oslo. Her work focuses on early language development, particularly in multilingual children and vocabulary acquisition.

• Education: Master in Special Education (speech therapy), University of Oslo (2020–2022)
• Background: Research Assistant (2021–2023), support teacher in kindergarten (2016–2021)

Research Interests: Language mapping, inferential reasoning, and picture book reading practices in multilingual early education settings. Her 2023 publication examines how kindergarten teachers engage multilingual children in dialogues during picture book reading.

Projects: Involved in OPIT (digital language comprehension test) and SL+ Intervention Project. Member of the Communicative Processes (ComPros) research group.