Cecilia Nakeva Von Mentzer
Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Health SciencesEmail: Y2VjaWxpYS5uYWtldmEtdm9ubWVudHplcjtvcnUuc2U=
Phone: +46 19 301272
Room: P2149
About Cecilia Nakeva Von Mentzer
About Cecilia Nakeva Von Mentzer
Cecilia Nakeva von Mentzer has been a senior lecturer in hearing science at Örebro University since April 2019. She has a speech language pathology (SLP) degree from Karolinska Institutet (1991) and a doctorate in disability research at Linköping University (2014). Cecilia previously worked as university lecturer and postdoc at the Department of Neuroscience at Uppsala University.
Research
Cecilia Nakeva von Mentzer's research mainly concerns the assessment and treatment of speech difficulties, language disorders and reading difficulties in children who are deaf and hard of hearing. This involves the development of assessment methods for language and speech perception, as well as the development and evaluation of methods to promote children's speaking, language and reading skills. More recently, research also covers social aspects of communicative impairments. The research often takes place in collaboration with other professions such as psychologists, audiologists, engineers and special educators.
Cecilia is responsible for two research projects: Communicative activity and participation for children with speech and language impairment (CAD) and Language, communication and psychological well-being in young adults with hearing loss: a long-term follow-up. She is also part of a project about the importance of the physical environment for conversations with children at the social services together with researchers in social work and occupational therapy.
CAD
The purpose of the research project is to shed light on the experiences of the child, the guardian and the educator on whether and how speech and language impairment affects social interaction and sense of participation. The goal is to define approaches that create the best possible conditions for the child in two important environments, the home and the (school). Aspects of the study were discussed at an ORU Talks in autumn 2021 and have been presented at seminars in social work and SLP at Örebro and Stockholm universities as well as for Skåne SLP clinic in 2023 and 2024.
Language, communication and psychological well-being in young adults with hearing loss
The overall aim of the project is to investigate how young adulthood is experienced by young people with hearing loss from a language and communication perspective and how the connections are with psychological well-being. In the project, we follow up a group of children who use cochlear implants (CI) or hearing aids (HA) a little over ten years after they participated in research projects on reading. The goal is to increase knowledge about young adults with hearing loss from a longer life perspective.
Cecilia Nakeva von Mentzer is part of the research environment Special Education, Development and Learning and is research group leader for Speak up.
Teaching
Pedagogical approach
Cecilia's pedagogical approach is based on three key words: curiosity, knowledge-based judgment and relationship. The approach is based on the experiences she made when she worked as a pediatric SLP in the clinic from 1991-2009 and had close contact with the children and their important adults. Several of the educational development projects she accomplished in the clinic, as well as her therapeutic schooling, have thus in many ways set the tone for how she works as a higher education teacher.
Cecilia meets students at all levels of education; those who are new to higher education and those at master's and doctoral level. The program students she teaches are in audiology, occupational therapy, nursing and special education. The breadth of the program students means that she needs to create an image of the students' daily study life and future professional situation in an active way.
A special aspect of Cecilia's teaching role at Örebro University is her professional background as SLP, which requires special preparation to make this discipline (medicine, linguistics and psychology) visible in various teaching sessions. To enable this, she conducts a continuous dialogue with specialized SLPs in various areas, such as alternative and supplementary communication (AKK), voice and aphasia.
Cecilia's teaching portfolio ranges from practical exercises in body awareness and voice, lectures, laboratories and poster work in acoustic phonetics and speech perception, children's language, cognition, hearing and reading, and quantitative research methods to name a few examples.
Cecilia Nakeva von Mentzer teaches at undergraduate level on the Audiology Programme, the Occupational Therapy program and the Nursing Programme, as well as on the Master's program in occupational therapy/hearing science and Special Education. She supervises essays at basic and advanced level. In February 2024, Petter Kallioinen completed his dissertation where she was assistant supervisor.
Research projects
Active projects
- The importance of the physical environment in the Social Services' contacts with children and young people
- Communicative activity and participation in children with developmental language disorder
- Language, communication and psychological well-being in young adults with hearing loss: a long-term follow-up.
Completed projects
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Kalnak, N. & Nakeva von Mentzer, C. (2024). Listening and Processing Skills in Young School Children with a History of Developmental Phonological Disorder. Healthcare, 12 (3). [BibTeX]
- Stewart, H. J. , Cash, E. K. , Pinkl, J. , Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Lin, L. , Hunter, L. L. , Moore, D. R. & CCHMC Division of Audiology, . (2022). Adaptive Hearing Aid Benefit in Children With Mild/Moderate Hearing Loss: A Registered, Double-Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial. Ear and Hearing, 43 (5), 1402-1415. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. (2021). Audiometric profiles in children with speech sound disorder: Subclinical hearing loss as a potential factor. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 35 (9), 847-873. [BibTeX]
- Engström, E. , Kallioinen, P. , Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Lindgren, M. , Sahlén, B. , Lyxell, B. , Ors, M. & Uhlén, I. (2021). Auditory event-related potentials and mismatch negativity in children with hearing loss using hearing aids or cochlear implants: A three-year follow-up study. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 140. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. (2021). Corrigendum to “Phonemic discrimination and reproduction in 4-5-year-old children: Relations to hearing” [Int. J. Pediatr. Otorhinolaryngol., 133 (2020), 1–12]. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 140. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Kalnak, N. & Jennische, M. (2021). Intensive computer-based phonics training in the educational setting of children with Down syndrome: An explorative study. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 25 (4), 636-660. [BibTeX]
- Levlin, M. & Nakeva von Mentzer, C. (2020). An evaluation of systematized phonics on reading proficiency in Swedish second grade poor readers: Effects on pseudoword and sight word reading skills. Dyslexia, 26 (4), 427-441. [BibTeX]
- Engström, E. , Kallioinen, P. , Lindgren, M. , Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Sahlén, B. , Lyxell, B. & Uhlén, I. (2020). Computer-assisted reading intervention for children with hearing impairment using cochlear implants: Effects on auditory event-related potentials and mismatch negativity. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 137. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. (2020). Phonemic discrimination and reproduction in 4-5-year-old children: Relations to hearing. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 133. [BibTeX]
- Engström, E. , Kallioinen, P. , Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Lindgren, M. , Ors, M. , Sahlén, B. , Lyxell, B. & Uhlén, I. (2019). Computer-assisted reading intervention for children with sensorineural hearing loss using hearing aids: Effects on auditory event-related potentials and mismatch negativity. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 117, 17-25. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Sundström, M. , Enqvist, K. & Hällgren, M. (2018). Assessing speech perception in Swedish school-aged children: preliminary data on the Listen–Say test. Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology, 43 (3), 106-119. [BibTeX]
- Uhlen, I. , Engström, E. , Kallioinen, P. , Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Lyxell, B. , Sahlen, B. , Lindgren, M. & Ors, M. (2017). Using a multi-feature paradigm to measure mismatch responses to minimal sound contrasts in children with cochlear implants and hearing aids. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 58 (5), 409-421. [BibTeX]
- Eliasson, A. , Holmström, L. , Aarne, P. , Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Weiland, A. , Sjöstrand, L. , Forssberg, H. , Tedroff, K. & et al. (2016). Efficacy of the small step program in a randomised controlled trial for infants below age 12 months with clinical signs of CP: a study protocol. BMC Pediatrics, 16. [BibTeX]
- Kallioinen, P. , Olofsson, J. , Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Lindgren, M. , Ors, M. , Sahlén, B. , Lyxell, B. , Engström, E. & et al. (2016). Semantic Processing in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children: Large N400 Mismatch Effects in Brain Responses, Despite Poor Semantic Ability. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Lyxell, B. , Sahlén, B. , Dahlström, Ö. , Lindgren, M. , Ors, M. , Kallioinen, P. , Engström, E. & et al. (2015). Segmental and suprasegmental properties in nonword repetition: An explorative study of the associations with nonword decoding in children with normal hearing and children with bilateral cochlear implants. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 29 (3), 216-235. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Sundström, M. , Enkvist, K. & Hällgren, M. (2015). Talperception hos svenska normalhörande skolbarn i tyst och störande tal: effekt av fonetiska kontraster, ljudbakgrund och kön. Audionomen : medlemstidning för Audionomföreningen (3). [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. (2015). Tänka om ljud: Fonologisk lästräning vid datorn för döva och hörselskadade barn som använder cochleaimplantat eller hörapparat. Dyslexi – aktuellt om läs- och skrivsvårigheter (2). [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Lyxell, B. , Sahlén, B. , Dahlström, Ö. , Lindgren, M. , Ors, M. , Kallioinen, P. & Uhlén, I. (2014). The Phonics Approach in Swedish Children using Cochlear Implants or Hearing Aids: Inspecting Phonological Gain. Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies & Hearing Aids, 2 (3), 117. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Lyxell, B. , Sahlén, B. , Wass, M. , Lindgren, M. , Ors, M. , Kallionen, P. & Uhlén, I. (2013). Computer-assisted training of phoneme-grapheme correspondence for children who are deaf and hard of hearing: Effects on phonological processing skills. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 77 (12), 2049-2057. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Lyxell, B. , Sahlén, B. , Dahlström, Ö. , Lindgren, M. , Ors, M. , Kallioinen, P. & Uhlén, I. (2013). Ljudinriktad läsintervention vid datorn för barn med cochleaimplantat (CI) och/eller hörapparat (HA): läsförändring och kognitiva faktorer. Logopednytt (4), 18-23. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. (2013). Ljudinriktad läsintervention vid datorn för barn med cochleaimplantat eller hörapparat: Läsförändring och kognitiva faktorer. Barnplantabladet (3), 28-30. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Lyxell, B. , Sahlén, B. , Wass, M. , Lindgren, M. , Ors, M. , Kallioinen, P. , Engström, E. & et al. (2012). Datorbaserad fonologisk intervention för barn med cochleaimplantat (CI) och/eller hörapparat (HA): effekter på fonologiska färdigheter. Logopednytt (3), 18-23. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. (2012). Interventionsstudie med fokus att förbättra fonologiska färdigheter. Barnplantabladet (3), 34-35. [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. (2008). Pratvis: dotorbaserad uttalsträning. Dyslexi – aktuellt om läs- och skrivsvårigheter (4). [BibTeX]
Articles, reviews/surveys
- Kallioinen, P. , Olofsson, J. K. & Nakeva von Mentzer, C. (2023). Semantic processing in children with Cochlear Implants: A review of current N400 studies and recommendations for future research. Biological Psychology, 182. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. & Löfkvist, U. (2024). Språkutveckling och utvecklingsrelaterad språkstörning vid hörselskador. In: Lena Hartelius, Kerstin Johansson, Maria Levlin, Ellika Schalling, Maria Södersten, Grundbok i logopedi (pp. 83-94). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
- Lyxell, B. , Wass, M. , Sahlén, B. , Ibertsson, T. , Asker-Arnason, L. , Uhlén, I. , Henricson, C. , Nakeva von Mentzer, C. & et al. (2013). Hearing and cognitive development in deaf and hearing-impaired children: effects of intervention. In: Gastone G. Celesia, Disorders of Peripheral and Central Auditory Processing (pp. 71-80). . Elsevier. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. , Hua, H. , Sundström, M. , Enqvist, K. & Hällgren, M. (2015). Assessing Children’s Speech Processing Ability using a New Analytical Method: The Listen-Say Test. In: Assessing Children’s Speech Processing Ability using a New Analytical Method: The Listen-Say Test.. Paper presented at Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science Linköping June 2015. Uppsala: [BibTeX]
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. (2015). The Listen-Say Test -: Assessment of speech processing in children 2015. Paper presented at Cochlear Nordic Symposium in Copenhagen, 27-29 January 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark. Uppsala: [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. (2014). Rethinking Sound: Computer-assisted reading intervention with a phonics approach for deaf and hard of hearing children using cochlear implants or hearing aids. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press. [BibTeX]
Other
- Nakeva von Mentzer, C. & Ranjbar, P. (2020). The web-based sentence repetition test to diagnose developmental language disorder (DLD): User manual. [BibTeX]