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Christina Persson
Professor/ Speach Therapist
Institute of Neuroscience and PhysiologyAvd-/Sektionschef, bitr, inst
Department of Health and RehabilitationAbout Christina Persson
Present employment
Is currently employed as Professor at the Sahlgrenska academy at Gothenburg University and as a clinical Speech-Language Pathologist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The position is conjoint with the Department of Speech Language Pathology/ENT at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The main interest in clinical work, teaching and research is speech disorders in patients born with cleft lip and palate or genetic syndromes, mainly 22q11 deletion syndrome. Member of the Gothenburg cleft palate team since 1991 and of the 22q11 deletion syndrome team since 1997.
Teaching interests
Supervises master’s theses and PhD students.
Research interests
My research interest has three main focuses:
- Speech in children, adolescents and young adults born with cleft lip and palate
- Speech in children, adolescents and adults born with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
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The impact of surgical technique and cleft width on the rate of secondary surgery and velopharyngeal function in children with UCLP at 5 years of
age
Asa Okhiria, Christina Persson, Monica Blom Johansson, Malin Hakelius, Fatemeh Jabbari, Daniel Nowinski
JOURNAL OF PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY - 2024 -
Longitudinal Speech Outcome at 5 and 10 Years in UCLP: Influence of Speech Therapy and Secondary Velopharyngeal
Surgery
Christina Persson, J. Davies, Christina Havstam, H. Sogaard, M. Bowden, M. Boers, J. B. Nielsen, S. Alaluusua, I. Lundeborg Hammarstrom, B. K. Emborg, A. Sand, A. Lohmander
CLEFT PALATE CRANIOFACIAL JOURNAL - 2024 -
Persisting speech difficulties at 7-8 years of age - a longitudinal study of speech production in internationally adopted children with cleft lip and
palate
AnnaKarin Larsson, Carmela Miniscalco, Hans Mark, Radoslava Jönsson, Christina Persson
Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology - 2024 -
Scandcleft randomized trials of primary surgery for unilateral cleft lip and palate: Speech proficiency at 10 years of
age.
E Willadsen, L D Jørgensen, S Alaluusua, N H Pedersen, J B Nielsen, E Hölttä, Ø Hide, C Hayden, Christina Havstam, I L Hammarström, J Davies, M Boers, H S Andersen, R Aukner, D Jackson Morris, S F Nielsen, G Semb, A Lohmander, Christina Persson
International journal of language & communication disorders - 2023 -
Timing of Primary Surgery for Cleft
Palate.
Carrol Gamble, Christina Persson, Elisabeth Willadsen, Liz Albery, Helene Soegaard Andersen, Melissa Zattoni Antoneli, Malin Appelqvist, Ragnhild Aukner, Pia Bodling, Melanie Bowden, Karin Brunnegård, Gillian Cairns, Samantha Calladine, Linsay Campbell, Jill Clayton-Smith, Rachael Cooper, Elizabeth Conroy, Ahmed El-Angbawi, Berit Kildegaard Emborg, Josefin Enfält Wikman, Beth Fitzpatrick, Ana Paula Fukushiro, Cristina Guedes de Azevedo Bento Gonçalves, Christina Havstam, Anne Katherine Hvistendahl, Line Dahl Jorgensen, Kristina Klinto, Marit Berntsen Kvinnsland, Catriona Larham, Jorunn Lemvik, Louise Leturgie, Eva Liljerehn, Natalie Lodge, Anette Lohmander, Siobhan McMahon, Felicity Mehendale, Haline Coracine Miguel, Marianne Moe, Joan Bogh Nielsen, Jill Nyberg, Nina-Helen Pedersen, Ginette Phippen, Silvia Helena Alvarez Piazentin-Penna, Kathryn Patrick, Lindsay Pliskin, Lucy Rigby, Gunvor Semb, Lucy Southby, Maria Sporre, Ann-Sofie Björkman Taleman, Jorid Tangstad, Inge Elly Kiemle Trindade, Imogen Underwood, Stephanie van Eeden, Liisi Raud Westberg, Paula Ruth Williamson, Renata Paciello Yamashita, Kevin Munro, Tanya Walsh, William Shaw
The New England journal of medicine - 2023 -
Longitudinal data on speech outcomes in internationally adopted children compared with non-adopted children with cleft lip and
palate
A. Okhiria, Christina Persson, M. B. Johansson, M. Hakelius, D. Nowinski
International journal of language and communication disorders - 2023 -
Inter-rater reliability in classification of canonical babbling status based on canonical babbling ratio in infants with isolated cleft palate randomised to Timing of Primary Surgery for Cleft Palate
(TOPS)
E. Willadsen, R. Cooper, E. Conroy, C. Gamble, L. Albery, H. Andersen, M. Appelqvist, P. Bodling, M. Bowden, K. Brunnegard, J. Enfalt, S. van Eeden, C. Goncalves, A. Fukushiro, L. Jorgensen, J. Lemvik, L. Leturgie, E. Liljerehn, N. Lodge, S. McMahon, H. Miguel, K. Patrick, G. Phippen, S. Piazentin-Penna, L. Southby, A. S. Taleman, J. Tangstad, R. Yamashita, W. Shaw, K. Munro, T. Walsh, Christina Persson
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics - 2023 -
Prevalence of Reading Difficulties in 9-to 10-Year Old Children in Sweden Born With Cleft
Palate
Parry Weinfeld Justin, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Christina Persson
Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal - 2022 -
Speech Outcome and Self-Reported Communicative Ability in Young Adults Born With Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate: Comparing Long-Term Results After 2 Different Surgical Methods for Palatal
Repair
P. Peterson, J. Nyberg, Christina Persson, H. Mark, A. Lohmander
Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal - 2022 -
Internationally adopted children with and without a cleft lip and palate showed no differences in language ability at
school-age.
AnnaKarin Larsson, Christina Persson, Kristina Klintö, Carmela Miniscalco
Acta paediatrica - 2021 -
A randomised controlled trial comparing palate surgery at 6 months versus 12 months of age (the TOPS trial): a statistical analysis
plan.
Elizabeth J Conroy, Rachael Cooper, William Shaw, Christina Persson, Elisabeth Willadsen, Kevin J Munro, Paula R Williamson, Gunvor Semb, Tanya Walsh, Carrol Gamble
Trials - 2021 -
Adding a fourth rater to three had little impact in pre-linguistic outcome
classification
Christina Persson, E. J. Conroy, C. Gamble, A. Rosala-Hallas, W. Shaw, E. Willadsen
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics - 2021 -
Surgical, speech, and hearing outcomes at five years of age in internationally adopted children and Swedish-born children with cleft lip and/or
palate
Johnna Schölin, Åsa Jonasson, Jessica Axelsson, Christina Havstam, Christina Persson, Radoslava Jönsson, Hans Mark
Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery - 2020 -
Internationally Adopted Children With Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate-Consonant Proficiency and Perceived Velopharyngeal Competence at the Age of
5.
AnnaKarin Larsson, Carmela Miniscalco, Hans Mark, Johnna Schölin, Radoslava Jönsson, Christina Persson
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - 2020 -
Scandcleft Project Trial 2—Comparison of Speech Outcome in 1- and 2-Stage Palatal Closure in 5-Year-Olds With
UCLP
I. L. Hammarström, J. Nyberg, S. Alaluusua, J. Rautio, E. Neovius, A. Berggren, Christina Persson, E. Willadsen, A. Lohmander
Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal - 2020 -
Assessment of prelinguistic vocalizations in real time: a comparison with phonetic transcription and assessment of
inter-coder-reliability
Elisabeth Willadsen, Christina Persson, Kathryn Patrick, Anette Lohmander, D. Kimbrough Oller
Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - 2020 -
Scandcleft Project Trial 3: Comparison of Speech Outcomes in Relation to Sequence in 2-Stage Palatal Repair Procedures in 5-Year-Olds With Unilateral Cleft Lip and
Palate.
Christina Persson, Nina-Helen Pedersen, Christine Hayden, Melanie Bowden, Ragnhild Aukner, Hallvard A Vindenes, Frank Åbyholm, David Withby, Elisabeth Willadsen, Anette Lohmander
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - 2020 -
Speech-Language Disorders in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: Best Practices for Diagnosis and
Management.
Cynthia B Solot, Debbie Sell, Anne Mayne, Adriane L Baylis, Oksana Jackson, Christina Persson, Donna M McDonald-McGinn
American journal of speech-language pathology - 2019 -
Scandcleft Project, Trial 1: Comparison of Speech Outcome in Relation to Timing of Hard Palate Closure in 5-Year-Olds With
UCLP.
Elisabeth Willadsen, Anette Lohmander, Christina Persson, Maria Boers, Mia Kisling-Møller, Christina Havstam, Anna Elander, Mikael Andersen
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - 2019 -
Timing Of Primary Surgery for cleft palate (TOPS): protocol for a randomised trial of palate surgery at 6 months versus 12 months of
age
W Shaw , G Semb , A Lohmander, Christina Persson, E Willadsen, J Clayton-Smith , IK Trindade , KJ Munro , C Gamble , N Harman , EJ Conroy , D Weichart , P Williamson
BMJ Open - 2019 -
Velopharyngeal Function and Consonant Proficiency in Internationally Adopted Children with UCLP At Age
5
AnnaKarin Larsson, Carmela Miniscalco, Hans Mark, Johnna Schölin, Radoslava Jönsson, Christina Persson
10th European Congress of Speech and Language Therapy.10-12 May 2018, Cascais, Portugal - 2018 -
Consonant proficiency and Velopharyngeal Function in Internationally Adopted Children with
UCLP
AnnaKarin Larsson, Carmela Miniscalco, Hans Mark, Johnna Schölin, Radoslava Jönsson, Christina Persson
17th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, University of Malta - 2018 -
A software program to assist coding of prelinguistic vocalizations in real
time.
Elisabeth Willadsen, Christina Persson, Duncan Appelbe
Clinical linguistics & phonetics - 2018 -
A Scandcleft randomised trials of primary surgery for unilateral cleft lip and palate: 1. Planning and
management.
Gunvor Semb, Hans Enemark, Hans Friede, Gunnar Paulin, Jan Lilja, Jorma Rautio, Mikael Andersen, Frank Åbyholm, Anette Lohmander, William Shaw, Kirsten Mølsted, Arja Heliövaara, Stig Bolund, Jyri Hukki, Hallvard Vindenes, Peter Davenport, Kjartan Arctander, Ola Larson, Anders Berggren, David Whitby, Alan Leonard, Erik Neovius, Anna Elander, Elisabeth Willadsen, R Patricia Bannister, Eileen Bradbury, Gunilla Henningsson, Christina Persson, Philip Eyres, Berit Emborg, Mia Kisling-Møller, Annelise Küseler, Birthe Granhof Black, Antje Schöps, Anja Bau, Maria Boers, Helene Søgaard Andersen, Karin Jeppesen, Dorte Marxen, Marjukka Paaso, Elina Hölttä, Suvi Alaluusua, Leena Turunen, Kirsti Humerinta, Ulla Elfving-Little, Inger Beate Tørdal, Lillian Kjøll, Ragnhild Aukner, Øydis Hide, Kristin Billaud Feragen, Elisabeth Rønning, Pål Skaare, Eli Brinck, Ann-Magritt Semmingsen, Nina Lindberg, Melanie Bowden, Julie Davies, Jeanette Mooney, Haydn Bellardie, Nina Schofield, Jill Nyberg, Maria Lundberg, Agneta Linder-Aronson Karsten, Margareta Larson, Anders Holmefjord, Sigvor Reisæter, Nina-Helen Pedersen, Therese Rasmussen, Rolf Tindlund, Paul Sæle, Reidunn Blomhoff, Gry Jacobsen, Christina Havstam, Sara Rizell, Lars Enochson, Catharina Hagberg, Midia Najar Chalien, Anna Paganini, Inger Lundeborg, Agneta Marcusson, Anna-Britta Mjönes, Annica Gustavsson, Christine Hayden, Eilish McAleer, Emma Slevan, Terry Gregg, Helen Worthington
Journal of plastic surgery and hand surgery - 2017 -
Scandcleft randomised trials of primary surgery for unilateral cleft lip and palate: 4. Speech outcomes in 5-year-olds - velopharyngeal competency and
hypernasality.
Anette Lohmander, Christina Persson, Elisabeth Willadsen, Inger Lundeborg, Suvi Alaluusua, Ragnhild Aukner, Anja Bau, Maria Boers, Melanie Bowden, Julie Davies, Berit Emborg, Christina Havstam, Christine Hayden, Gunilla Henningsson, Anders Holmefjord, Elina Hölttä, Mia Kisling-Møller, Lillian Kjøll, Maria Lundberg, Eilish McAleer, Jill Nyberg, Marjukka Paaso, Nina Helen Pedersen, Therese Rasmussen, Sigvor Reisæter, Helene Søgaard Andersen, Antje Schöps, Inger-Beate Tørdal, Gunvor Semb
Journal of plastic surgery and hand surgery - 2017 -
Scandcleft randomised trials of primary surgery for unilateral cleft lip and palate: 5. Speech outcomes in 5-year-olds - consonant proficiency and
errors.
Elisabeth Willadsen, Anette Lohmander, Christina Persson, Inger Lundeborg, Suvi Alaluusua, Ragnhild Aukner, Anja Bau, Maria Boers, Melanie Bowden, Julie Davies, Berit Emborg, Christina Havstam, Christine Hayden, Gunilla Henningsson, Anders Holmefjord, Elina Hölttä, Mia Kisling-Møller, Lillian Kjøll, Maria Lundberg, Eilish McAleer, Jill Nyberg, Marjukka Paaso, Nina Helen Pedersen, Therese Rasmussen, Sigvor Reisæter, Helene Søgaard Andersen, Antje Schöps, Inger-Beate Tørdal, Gunvor Semb
Journal of plastic surgery and hand surgery - 2017 -
Isolated cleft palate requires different surgical protocols depending on cleft
type.
Anna Elander, Christina Persson, Jan Lilja, Hans Mark
Journal of plastic surgery and hand surgery - 2017 -
Speech production in 3-year-old internationally adopted children with unilateral cleft lip and
palate.
AnnaKarin Larsson, Johnna Schölin, Hans Mark, Radoslava Jönsson, Christina Persson
International journal of language & communication disorders - 2017 -
Validity of auditory perceptual assessment of velopharyngeal function and dysfunction - the VPC-Sum and the
VPC-Rate.
Anette Lohmander, Emilie Hagberg, Christina Persson, Elisabeth Willadsen, Inger Lundeborg, Julie Davies, Christina Havstam, Maria Boers, Mia Kisling-Møller, Suvi Alaluusua, Ragnhild Aukner, Nina Helen Pedersen, Leena Turunen, Jill Nyberg
Clinical linguistics & phonetics - 2017 -
Signs of dysarthria in adults with 22q11.2 deletion
syndrome
Christina Persson, Katja Laakso, Hannah Edwardsson, Johanna Lindblom, Lena Hartelius
American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A - 2017 -
SVANTE – The Swedish Articulation and Nasality Test – Normative data and a minimum standard set for cross-linguistic
comparison
A Lohmander, I Lundeborg, Christina Persson
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics - 2017 -
Speech Production in Internationally Adopted Children with Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate at the Age of
3
AnnaKarin Larsson, Johnna Schölin, Hans Mark, Radoslava Jönsson, Christina Persson
30th World Congress of the IALP, Dublin 21-25 August 2016 - 2016 -
Speech Production in Internationally Adopted Children With Unilateral Cleft Lip & Palate at Age
Three
AnnaKarin Larsson, Johnna Schölin, Hans Mark, Radoslava Jönsson, Christina Persson
American Speech-Language-Hearing Assocation (ASHA) Convention, Philadelphia 17-19 November 2016 - 2016 -
Early Speech in Children with Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate – a Comparative Study of
Internationally Adopted and Swedish-Born
Children
AnnaKarin Larsson, Johnna Schölin, Christina Persson
Oral presentation, 10th European Craniofacial Congress, Göteborg 24-27 June 2015 - 2015 -
Speech production, intelligibility and oromotor function in seven individuals with Möbius
sequence
Lotta Sjögreen, Kajsa Eklund, Anna Nilsson, Christina Persson
International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - 2015 -
The effect of number of repetitions on listener transcriptions in assessment of speech intelligibility in
children.
Tove B Lagerberg, Lena Hartelius, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Christina Persson
International journal of language and communication disorders - 2015 -
Swedish Test of Intelligibility for Children (STI-CH) - Validity and reliability of a computer-mediated single word intelligibility test for
children
Tove B Lagerberg, Lena Hartelius, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Anna-Karin Ahlman, Andrea Börjesson, Christina Persson
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics - 2015 -
Assessing intelligibility by single words, sentences and spontaneous speech: a methodological study of the speech production of
10-year-olds.
Tove B Johannisson, Anette Lohmander, Christina Persson
Logopedics, phoniatrics, vocology - 2014 -
Assessment of intelligibility using children's spontaneous speech: methodological
aspects
Tove B Lagerberg, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Lena Hartelius, Christina Persson
International journal of language and communication disorders - 2014 -
Associations between speech features and phenotypic severity in Treacher Collins
syndrome
Pamela Åsten, Harriet Akre, Christina Persson
BMC Medical Genetics - 2014 -
A longitudinal study of hearing and middle ear status of individuals with cleft palate with and without additional
malformations/syndromes.
Traci Flynn, Christina Persson, Claes Möller, Anette Lohmander, Lennart Magnusson
The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal - 2014 -
The effectiveness of phonological intervention in preschool children: a single-subject design
study.
Nanna Palle, Agneta Berntsson, Carmela Miniscalco, Christina Persson
Logopedics, phoniatrics, vocology - 2014 -
Speech and hearing in adults with 22q11.2 deletion
syndrome
Christina Persson, Vanda Friman, Sólveig Oskarsdóttir, Radoslava Jönsson
American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A - 2012 -
Acoustic and perceptual characteristics of speech in 22q11 deletion syndrome: Measures of voice onset time and syllable durations related to articulation and
prosody.
Maria Sundqvist, Jonas Lindh, Lena Hartelius, Christina Persson
Proceedings of ICPLA2012 - 2012 -
Influence of related conditions on speech and
communication
Christina Persson, Lotta Sjögreen
Lohmander A, Howard S (red) Cleft Lip and Palate: Speech Assessment, Analysis and Intervention. - 2011 -
Cleft extension and risks of other birth defects in children with isolated cleft
palate.
Woranuch Chetpakdeechit, Bengt Mohlin, Christina Persson, Catharina Hagberg
Acta odontologica Scandinavica - 2009 -
Methodology for speech assessment in the scandcleft project-an international randomized clinical trial on palatal surgery: experiences from a pilot
study.
Anette Lohmander, E Willadsen, Christina Persson, G Henningsson, M Bowden, B Hutters
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - 2009 -
A longitudinal study of speech production in Swedish children with unilateral cleft lip and palate and two-stage palatal
repair.
Anette Lohmander, Christina Persson
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - 2008 -
Talstörningar av anatomiskt/strukturella orsaker hos barn och
ungdomar
Anette Lohmander, Christina Persson, G Henningsson
Logopediboken. Hartelius L, Netterbladt U, redaktörer - 2007 -
Language skills in five to eight year-old children with 22q11 deletion
syndrome
Christina Persson, Lena Niklasson, Sólveig Oskarsdóttir, S. Johansson, Radoslava Jönsson, Ewa Söderpalm
International Journal of language and communication disorders - 2006 -
Speech development in patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate treated with different delays in closure of the hard palate after early velar repair: a longitudinal
perspective.
Anette Lohmander, Hans Friede, Anna Elander, Christina Persson, Jan Lilja
Scandinavian journal of plastic and reconstructive surgery and hand surgery / Nordisk plastikkirurgisk forening [and] Nordisk klubb for handkirurgi - 2006 -
Speech in children with an isolated cleft palate: A longitudinal
perspective.
Christina Persson, Anette Lohmander, Anna Elander
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - 2006 -
Evaluation of VPI-assessment with videofluoroscopy and
nasoendoscopy.
Christina Havstam, Anette Lohmander, Christina Persson, Hans Dotevall, Agneta Lith, Jan Lilja
British journal of plastic surgery - 2005 -
Perceptual analysis of speech and the activity in the lateral pharyngeal walls before and after velopharyngeal flap
surgery.
Julia Liedman-Boshko, Anette Lohmander, Christina Persson, Agneta Lith, Anna Elander
Scandinavian journal of plastic and reconstructive surgery and hand surgery / Nordisk plastikkirurgisk forening [and] Nordisk klubb for handkirurgi - 2005 -
Presenting phenotype in 100 children with the 22q11 deletion
syndrome.
Sólveig Oskarsdóttir, Christina Persson, Bengt O Eriksson, Anders Fasth
European journal of pediatrics - 2005 -
SVANTE - SVenskt Artikulations och Nasalitets TEst.
Manual
Anette Lohmander, E Borell, G Henningsson, Christina Havstam, Lundeborg, Christina Persson
Pedagogisk Design - 2005 -
Speech and language in patients with an isolated cleft palate and/or 22q11 deletion
syndrome
Christina Persson
2004 -
A prospective cross-sectional study of speech in patients with the 22q11 deletion
syndrome.
Christina Persson, Anette Lohmander, Radoslava Jönsson, Sólveig Oskarsdóttir, Ewa Söderpalm
Journal of communication disorders - 2003 -
Speech outcomes in isolated cleft palate: impact of cleft extent and additional
malformations.
Christina Persson, Anna Elander, Anette Lohmander-Agerskov, Ewa Söderpalm
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - 2002 -
Unoperated clefts in the hard palate: Speech deficits at age 5 and 7 years and the relationship to cleft
size.
Anette Lohmander, Christina Persson, Py Owman-Moll
Scandinavian Journal of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery - 2002