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Ingela Holmström is a full-time Professor at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, specializing in Swedish Sign Language (STS) and bilingualism. She serves as Head of the Sign Language Department and leads multiple research initiatives including the MULDER project (2024) on deaf migrants' multilingual situation, the LäsTecken project on deaf children's reading development, and the UTL2 project examining STS as a second language for hearing students.
Research Themes:
- Deaf migrant language acquisition
- Bilingual education policy
- Visual-gestural modality instruction
- Language ideologies in Nordic countries
- Technological mediation in deaf education
Key Methodologies include ethnographic classroom observations, longitudinal studies of cochlear implant users, and mixed-methods analysis of sign lexicon acquisition patterns. Her work demonstrates how able-bodied norms in Swedish bureaucracy create systemic barriers for deaf migrants, while highlighting translanguaging practices as both facilitators and complicators in multilingual classrooms.
