Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
doc. Mgr. Svetlana Kapalková, PhD.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Kapalková
I.2 - Name
Svetlana
I.3 - Degrees
doc., Mgr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1975
I.5 - Name of the workplace
UK v Bratislave, Pedagogická fakulta, Katedra logopédie / Comenius University, Faculty of Education, Department of Communication Disorders
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Račianska 59, 813 34 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
docent/ Associate Professor
I.8 - E-mail address
kapalkova@fedu.uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4925
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
logopédia a liečebná pedagogika/ Speech and Language Therapy, and Therapeutic Education
I.11 - ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0052-6884

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Prešovská univerzita v Prešove, Pedagogická fakulta / University of Prešov in Prešov, Faculty of Education
II.b - Year
*1997, *1998
II.c - Study field and programme
*učiteľstvo pre 1.stupeň základnej školy/ Elementary Pedagogy *školská logopédia/ School Speech and Language Therapy
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Pedagogická fakulta/ Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Education
II.b - Year
2002
II.c - Study field and programme
logopédia/ Speech and Language Therapy
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Prešovská univerzita v Prešove, Filozofická fakulta/ University of Prešov in Prešov, Faculty of Art
II.b - Year
2017
II.c - Study field and programme
všeobecná jazykoveda/ general linguistics
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
vysokoškolský pedagóg, docent/ Lecturer, Associate Professor Katedra logopédie PdF UK/ Department of Comunication Disorders at Faculty of Education od 2002 - trvá/ since 2002 - lasts
logopéd/ speech and language therapist Inštitút detskej reči/ Institute of child language od 2007 - trvá/ since 2007 - lasts

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
Odborný cudzí jazyk (anglický jazyk)/ proffesional foreign language Akadémia vzdelávania (JASPEX) / Academy of Education (JASPEX) 2000 - 2001
Školenie v používaní ESB testovej batérie/ Training in using ESB battery City University London (UK) apríl 2021/ April 2021

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Vývin reči/ Language Acquisition logopédia/ Speech and Language Therapy I.+II. logopédia a liečebná pedagogika/Speech and Language Therapy and Therapeutic Education
Raná intervencia/ Early intervention logopédia/ Speech and Language Therapy I.+II. logopédia a liečebná pedagogika/Speech and Language Therapy and Therapeutic Education
Kazuistický seminár Vývinová jazyková porucha/ Case study seminar Developmental Language Disroder logopédia/ Speech and Language Therapy I.+II. logopédia a liečebná pedagogika/Speech and Language Therapy and Therapeutic Education
Vývinová jazyková porucha/ Developmental Language Disorder logopédia/ Speech and Language Therapy I.+II. logopédia a liečebná pedagogika/Speech and Language Therapy and Therapeutic Education
Bilingvizmus/ Bilingualism logopédia/ Speech and Language Therapy I.+II. logopédia a liečebná pedagogika/Speech and Language Therapy and Therapeutic Education
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
logopédia / Speech and Language Therapy I.+II. logopédia a liečebná pedagogika/Speech and Language Therapy and Therapeutic Education
logopédia/Speech and Language Therapy III.
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.3.a - Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure V.3.b - Study field to which it is assigned
Logopédia a liečebná pegagogika, špecializácia: logopédia /Speech and language therapy and Therapeutic Education, specialization: speech and language therapy
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
0
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
6
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
2
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
0
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
36
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
1
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Informačné technológie v logopédii/ Information Technology in Speech and Language Therapy Logopédia/ Speech and Language Therapy I.+II. logopédia a liečebná pedagogika/Speech and Language Therapy and Therapeutic Education

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
116
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
40
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
13
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
4
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
363
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
190
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
240
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
164
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
6
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
5
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

ADC KAPALKOVÁ, S., POLIŠENSKÁ, K., MARKOVÁ,L., FENTON, J. (2016) Narrative abilities in early succesive bilingual Slovak-English children : a cross-language comparison. In: Applied Psycholinguistics. - Vol. 37, Special Issue 1 (2016), s. 145 - 164. 

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ADC KATSOS, N. a kol. (2016) Cross-linguistic patterns in the acquisition of quantifiers. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - Vol. 113, No. 33 (2016), s. 9244-9249.

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ADC KAPALKOVÁ, S., POLIŠENSKÁ K., VICENOVÁ, Z. (2013) Non-word repetition performance in Slovak-speaking children with and without SLI: novel scoring methods. In: International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. - Roč. 48, č. 1 (2013), s. 78-89.

4

ADC POLIŠENSKÁ K., KAPALKOVÁ, S. (2014) Language profiles in children with Down Syndrome and children with Language Impairment: Implications for early intervention. In: Research in Developmental Disabilities. - Roč. 35, č. 2, s. 373-382.

5

ADM KAPALKOVÁ, S., POLIŠENSKÁ, K., SUSSOVÁ, M. (2016) The role of pictures and gestures as a support mechanism for novel word learning : a training study with 2-year-old children. In: Child Language Teaching and Therapy. - Roč. 32, č. 1 (2016), s. 53-64. 

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

ADC KAPALKOVÁ, S., SLANČOVÁ, D. (2017) The vocabulary profile of Slovak children with primary language impairment compared to typically developing Slovak children measured by LITMUS-CLT. In: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. - Vol. 31, No. spec. 11-12 (2017), s. 893-909

2

ADC POLIŠENSKÁ, K., KAPALKOVÁ, S., NOVOTKOVÁ, M. (2018) Receptive language skills in Slovak-speaking children with intellectual disability : understanding words, sentences, and stories. In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. - Roč. 61, č. 7 (2018), s. 1731-1742.

3

AEC KAPALKOVÁ, S., SLANČOVÁ, D. (2019) Managing children with developmental language disorder : theory and practice across Europe and beyond. - : 1. vyd. ISBN 9780429848339. - Abington : Routledge, 2019. - S. 420-430.

4

ABC KAPALKOVÁ, S., SLANČOVÁ, D. (2019) Grammatical profiles : Further languages of LARSP. - : 1. vyd. ISBN 978-1-78892-438-2. - Bristol : Multilingual matters, 2019. - S. 58-84 ((Communication disorders across languages ; )) 

5

ADC KAPALKOVÁ, S., POLIŠENSKÁ, K., MENTEL, A., VENCELOVÁ, L. (2022) Effects of oral language and decoding skills on reading comprehension performance across multiple assessments: a longitudinal study. Read Writ (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022- 10383-2

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

ADC KAPALKOVÁ, S., SLANČOVÁ, D.(2017) The vocabulary profile of Slovak children with primary language impairment compared to typically developing Slovak children measured by LITMUS-CLT. In: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. - Vol. 31, No. spec. 11-12 (2017), s. 893-909. [o1] 2018 Biran, Michal - Novogrodsky, Rama - Harel-Nov, Efrat - Gil, Mali - Mimouni-Bloch, Aviva: What we can learn from naming errors of children with language impairment at preschool age. In: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, roč. 32, č.4, 2018, s. 298-315 - SSCI ; SCOPUS        [o1] 2018 Abbot-Smith, Kirsten - Morawska-Patera, Patrycja - Luniewska, Magdalena - Spruce, Megan - Haman, Ewa: Using parental questionnaires to investigate the heritage language proficiency of bilingual children. In: Child Language Teachingand Therapy, roč. 34, č. 2, 2018, s. 155-170 - SSCI ; SCOPUS                                                                                                                                                                     [o1] 2019 Hansen, Pernille - Luniewska, Magdalena - Simonsen, Hanne Gram - Haman, Ewa - Mieszkowska, Karolina - Kolak, Joanna - Wodniecka, Zofia: Picture-based vocabulary assessment versus parental questionnaires: A cross-linguistic study of bilingual assessment methods. In: International Journal of Bilingualism, roč. 23, č. 2, 2019, s. 437-456 - AHCI ; SCOPUS

2

ADC KAPALKOVÁ, S., POLIŠENSKÁ, K., MARKOVÁ, L., FENTON, J. (2016) Narrative abilities in early successive bilingual Slovak-English children : a cross-language comparison. In: Applied Psycholinguistics. - Vol. 37, Special Issue 1 (2016), s. 145-164.                                                                 [o1] 2020 Bitetti, Dana - Hammer, Carol S. - López, Lisa M.: The narrative macrostructure production of Spanish English bilingual preschoolers: Within- and cross-language relations. In: Applied Psycholinguistics, roč. 41, č. 1, 2020, s. 79-106- SSCI ; SCOPUS

[o1] 2020 Ebert, Kerry Danahy: Language sample analysis with bilingual children translating research to practice. In: Topics in Language Disorders, roč. 40, č. 2, 2020, s. 182-201 - SSCI

[o1] 2021 Washington, Karla N. - Westby, Carol - Fritz, Kristina - Crowe, Kathryn - Karem, Rachel W. - Basinger, Melanie: The narrative competence of bilingual Jamaican Creole- and English-speaking preschoolers. In: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, roč. 52, č. 1, 2021, s. 317-3341 - SCI

           

3

ADC KAPALKOVÁ, S., POLIŠENSKÁ K., VICENOVÁ, Z. (2013) Non-word repetition performance in Slovak-speaking children with and without SLI: novel scoring methods. In: International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. - Roč. 48, č. 1 (2013), s. 78-89.                                                                                       [o1] 2019 Tomas, Ekaterina - Vissers, Constance: Behind the scenes of developmental language disorder: time to call neuropsychology back on stage. In: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, roč. 12, 2019, art. no. 517 - SSCI

[o1] 2019 Ebert, Kerry Danahy - Pham, Giang: Including nonlinguistic processing tasks in the identification of developmental language disorder. In: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, roč. 28, č. 3, 2019,

s. 932-944 - SSCI ; SCOPUS

[o1] 2020 Stepanov, Arthur - Kodrič, Karmen B. - Stateva, Penka: The role of working memory in children s ability for prosodic discrimination. In: PLoS One, roč. 15, č. 3, 2020, art. no. e0229857 - SSCI ; SCOPUS


          

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ADC KAPALKOVÁ, S., POLIŠENSKÁ, K., SUSSOVÁ, M. (2016) The role of pictures and gestures as a support mechanism for novel word learning : a training study with 2-year-old children. In: Child Language Teaching and Therapy. - Roč. 32, č. 1 (2016), s. 53-64.                                                                                                        [o1] 2017 Yuksel, Peri - Brooks, Patricia J.: Encouraging usage of an endangered ancestral language: A supportive role for caregivers' deictic gestures. In: First Language, roč. 37, č. 6, 2017, s. 561-582 –

AHCI ; SCOPUS

[o1] 2019 Van Berkel-van Hoof, Lian - Hermans, Daan - Knoors, Harry - Verhoeven, Ludo: Effects of signs on word learning by children with developmental language disorder. In: Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, roč. 62, č. 6, 2019, s. 1798-1812 - SSCI

[o1] 2020 Rosenthal-von der Puetten, Astrid M. - Bergmann, Kirsten: Non-verbal enrichment in vocabulary learning with a virtual pedagogical agent. In: Frontiers in Psychology, roč. 11, 2020, art. no. 533839 - SSCI


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ADC POLIŠENSKÁ K., KAPALKOVÁ, S. (2014) Language profiles in children with Down Syndrome and children with Language Impairment: Implications for early intervention. In: Research in Developmental Disabilities. - Roč. 35, č. 2, s. 373-382.                                                                                                                                   [o1] 2017 Samango-Sprouse, Carole - Keen, Colleen - Sadeghin, Teresa - Gropman, Andrea: The benefits and limitations of cell-free DNA screening for 47, XXY (Klinefelter syndrome). In: Prenatal Diagnosis, roč. 37,

č. 5, 2017, s. 497-501 - SCI ;SCOPUS

[o1] 2018 Parikh, Chandni - Mastergeorge, Ann M.: Vocalization patterns in young children with Down syndrome: Utilizing the language environment analysis (LENA) to inform behavioral phenotypes. In: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, roč.22, č. 4, 2018, s. 328-345 - ESCI ; SCOPUS

[o1] 2018 O'Toole, Ciara - Lee, Alice S-Y - Gibbon, Fiona E. - van Bysterveldt, Anne K. - Hart, Nicola J.: Parent-mediated interventions for promoting communication and language development in young children with Down syndrome. In: CochraneDatabase of Systematic Reviews, roč. 2018, č. 10, 2018, art. no. 12089 - SCI ; SCOPUS

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

Slovná zásoba ako ukazovateľ vývinovej jazykovej úrovne monolingválnych a bilingválnych detí v predškolskom veku. APVV-20-0126 (Zodp. riešiteľka: Doc. Svetlana Kapalková, PhD.) roky realizácie 7/2021 - 6/2025. zodpovedná riešiteľka.

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Enhancing Children's Oral Language Skills Across Europe and Beyond - A Collaboration Focusing on Interventions for Children with Difficulties Learning Their First Language COST Action IS1406, (Zodp. riešiteľ: prof. James Law, Newcastle University) roky realizácie 2015 – 2018. Riešiteľka. Web: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/echo/abouttheproject/


3

Bilingual assessment of child lexical knoledge: new method for Polish, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian. Visegrad Fund grant IVF 21420015 (Zodp. riešiteľka: prof. Ewa Haman, Iniwersytet Warszawski. roky riešenia 1/2015 – 3/2016. riešiteľka.

4

Test tichého čítania slov ako skríningový nástroj na odhaľovanie rizika dyslexie. VEGA č.1/0509/21 (Zodp. riešiteľka: Mgr. Martina Zubáková, PhD.), riešiteľka

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
členka IASCL (International Association for the Study of Child Language)/ member of IASCL (International Association for the Study of Child Language) IASCL od roku 2005 - trvá/ since 2005 - lasts
členka SAL (slovenská asociácia logopédov)/ member of SAL (Slovak Association of Speech and Language Therapists) SAL od roku 2001 - trvá/ since 2001 - lasts
členka predsedníctva Komory školských logopédov/ member of the Bureau of the Chamber of School Speech and Language therapy Komora školských logopédov/ Chamber of School Speech and Language boards od roku 2014 - trvá/ since 2014 - lasts
členka Akademického senátu/ member of the Academic Senate Akademický senát Pedagogickej fakulty UK/ Academic Senate of Faculty of Education od roku 2018 - 2023/ since 2018 - 2023
členka medzinárodnej edičnej rady časopisu / member of International Editorial Board Gramotnost, pregramotnost a vzdělávání/ The Literacy, Preliteracy and Education Journal od roku 2017 - trvá/ since 2017 - lasts
členka výboru pre primárnu prevenciu rady vlády SR/ member of Committee for Primary Prevention of the Council of the Slovak Republic Government Ministerstvo práce, sociálnych vecí a rodiny / Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family jún 2021 - trvá / since June 2021 - lasts

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
Montclaire State University , Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health USA 1 Normal Ave , Montclaire, NJ 16.6. - 30.6. 2000 SAIA program, študentský pobyt počas PhD/ SAIA program, study mobility PhD
Lehigh University, Department of Psychology Narrative Lab USA Bethlehem, PA 18015 10. - 13. 12. 2012 APVV - výskumný pobyt/ APVV - research internship
Manchester University, Communication and Deafness, School of Psychological Sciences, Devision of Human Communication, Development & Hearing, School of Health Sciences UK Oxford Rd Manchester M13 9PL 4. - 6. 12. 2013 APVV - výskumný pobyt/ APVV - research internship
City University London, Language and Communication Science School of Health and Psychological Sciences UK City, Univesity of London, London EC1V 0HB 19. - 24. 5. 2023 APVV - výskumný pobyt / APVV - research internship

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Záverečná správa pre Ministerstvo školstva, vedy, výskumu a športu o realizácii experimentálneho overovania (randomizovanou zaslepenou štúdiou) metodiky výučby inovatívnej metodiky slovenského jazyka v 1.ročníku základných škôl schváleného pod číslom 2013-5884/39311:6921 (jún 2016). S platnosťou od 22.9.2020 bola udelená učebnici odporúčacia doložka Ministerstvom šk. /Final report for the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport on the implementation of experimental verification (by randomized blind study) of the methodology of teaching innovative Slovak language methodology in the 1st year of primary schools approved under the number 2013-5884/39311:6921 (June 2016). With effect from 22.9.2020, the textbook was granted a recommendation clause by the Ministry of Education.                        

Date of last update
2025-03-17