Anu Klippi is a professor, emerita at the Department of Speech-Language Pathology. Her main research interest is the study of impaired social interaction and conversation from the viewpoint of speech and language therapy. Her research has mainly focused on interactional aspects of aphasia conversation, e.g. the structure of conversation as well as conversational practices and strategies with special attention to the role of multimodality and multisemiotic systems, repairs and meaning negotiations in these conversations. In addition, the conversational partner’s support has been in focus. Furthermore, her studies have dealt with e.g. long-term recovery of aphasia, quality of life in aphasia and social participation in aphasia. Anu Klippi’s interests have also aimed at the effects of aphasia interventions as well as the therapy effects on everyday conversation of a persons with aphasia.
She has authored numerous scientific articles, book chapters and professional articles. She has co-edited several books on Speech Sciences and on Speech-Language Pathology including one on aphasia.
Anu Klippi has been Head of the Department of Speech Sciences and she has served the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Behavioral Sciences in several roles. She has served as principal investigator on several research projects and she has supervised (as main or co-supervisor) 15 doctoral students.
Anu Klippi has been the president of the Association of Aphasia Rehabilitation Research (Afasian kuntoutustutkimusyhdistys ry.) in 1998-2016, the vice-president of the Finnish Association of Speech and Language Research (Puheen ja kielen tutkimuksen yhdistys ry.) in 1995-2010 and the chair of the Aphasia Committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics in 2010-2016.
Sanna Lemmetyinen is a Ph.D. student at the Aphasia Research group.