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Monica I. Norvik serves as an Associate Professor in Speech Therapy at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Teacher Education and Pedagogy. With over 20 years of clinical experience from Statped's aphasia team (formerly Bredtvet Competence Center), she brings extensive practical knowledge to her academic role. She also holds a second-year position at NTNU's master's program in speech therapy and was a researcher at MultiLing, UiO from 2013-2024.
Her educational background includes training as both a speech therapist and special education teacher, with a specialization in speech therapy and a doctorate in clinical linguistics focused on aphasia and multilingualism. This interdisciplinary foundation supports her work bridging clinical practice and academic research.
Dr. Norvik's research centers on speech therapy, multilingualism, and clinical linguistics, with particular emphasis on acquired language, speech, and communication disorders. She specializes in developing assessment and treatment methods for multilingual individuals with aphasia and dementia, investigating how work with multilingual aphasia patients can inform linguistic models of multilingual processing. Her work often examines cross-linguistic adaptation of assessment tools and treatment approaches.
Her extensive publication record demonstrates consistent focus on primary progressive aphasia, multilingual aphasia assessment, and cross-linguistic adaptation of clinical tools. Recent work shows increasing emphasis on international collaboration, development of standardized outcome measures, and patient-centered approaches to aphasia management, particularly through co-designed questionnaires and communication partner training.
Dr. Norvik actively supervises master's students in speech therapy and special education, as well as two PhD candidates in linguistics at UiO. Her research collaborations include membership in the International Speech and Language Therapy/Pathology Primary Progressive Aphasia Network and the Aphasia Assessments and Outcomes working group of The Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists.
She participates in multiple research groups and projects including C-LaBL, Participation and Communication (PAC), VR-based student activities, underrepresented languages in aphasia research, language assessment tools for primary progressive aphasia, The Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (CATs), Multilingual Aphasia Practices (MAP), and norm data for connected language production.
