Christina Reuterskiöld

Professor

Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders/Speech-Language Pathology. My work focuses on oral and written language skills in children with and without developmental disorders.

Focus on developmental language disorder in children

My research focuses on developmental language disorder in children. My main interest is the influence of non-linguistic and linguistic context on language processing and production.

My studies have also included children with autism, children with hearing impairment and children with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. I am certified as a Speech Language Pathologist by the American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) and the Swedish Board of Social Care. After almost two decades in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University, I joined colleagues at Linköping University in 2021.

Publications

2026

Julia Wallmann, Christina Samuelsson, Birgitta Sahlén, Christina Reuterskiöld, Olof Sandgren, Anna Ekström (2026)

Key Stakeholder Views on Educational Support and Academic Progress for Students With Developmental Language Disorder Language, speech & hearing services in schools, Vol. 57, p. 262-276 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2025_lshss-25-00084

2025

Christina Reuterskiöld, Emily Margaret Matula, Iris Fishman (2025)

Fast Mapping with Orthographic Support in School-Age Children: Exploring Statistical Patterns Reading Psychology (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02702711.2025.2579301

Yashodha K K Hettiarachchi, Vithanage Pujitha Wickramasinghe, Tamara Handy, Christina Reuterskiöld (2025)

Narrative styles adopted by mothers when telling a known story to their preschool-aged children: A qualitative study from Sri Lanka International Review of Social Sciences Research, Vol. 5, p. 169-188 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.53378/irssr.353243

2023

Grace T. Clark, Christina Reuterskiöld (2023)

Word Learning With Orthographic Support in Nonspeaking and Minimally Speaking School-Age Autistic Children Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, Vol. 66, p. 2047-2063 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00549

Vishnu K. K. Nair, Grace T. Clark, Samantha Siyambalapitiya, Christina Reuterskiöld (2023)

Language intervention in bilingual children with developmental language disorder: A systematic review International journal of language and communication disorders, Vol. 58, p. 576-600 (Article, review/survey)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12803

Research

A child pointing to communicate with his family at the kitchen table.

Precursors of Intentional Communication Skills in Children

The project aims to create a checklist for parents, identify early communicative behaviors in young children up to one year of age, and examine their connection to later linguistic and communicative abilities.

Swedish-speaking children with developmental language disorder in comparison with second language learners

The focus of this project is language processing in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and bilingual children learning Swedish as their second language (L2). They are similarly challenged by Swedish grammar.

News

Children’s language skills arise before speech

Seven out of every hundred children do not learn their mother tongue as expected. Christina Reuterskiöld, newly appointed professor of speech and language pathology at Linköping University, is investigating how language develops in children.

Organisation

Teaser image for the division SOK (former LOA) at BKV.

Division of Sensory Organs and Communication (SOK)

At the Division of Sensory Organs and Communication, research focusing on human communication is carried out.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MEDFAK)

The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences conducts research and education within medicine, healthcare and public health.