Mgr. Viktória Čiernik Kevická, PhD.
Contact and position
ORCID: 0000-0003-0016-9597
e-mail: kevickafedu.uniba.sk
Position: assistant professor
Education and professional growth
2021 – PhD in Speech and language pathology from Comenius University
2017 – Master’s degree in Speech and language pathology from Comenius University
Current and previous appointments
2022 – present – Department of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences - scientist
2021 – present – Department of Communication Disorders, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava – research assistent
2018 – 2019 – Speech therapy clinic AS-LOGO, Bratislava
Research focus
Neurogenic communication disorders
Discourse level language processing
Early detection of neurodegenerative diseases from speech
Teaching courses at PdF UK
Biomedical foundations for speech pathologists 1, 2, 3
Aphasia
Speech therapy counselling
Professional English in communication disorders
Speech therapy for special educators
Fundamentals of speech therapy and Developmental speech disorders for therapeutic education students
Theses seminar
Research grants
UK/68/2018 Effect of elicitation method on spontaneous speech production and its assessment
UK/29/2019 Discourse analysis in patients with neurogenic communication disorders
UK/53/2020 Discourse of intact population and patients with neurogenic communication disorders
VEGA 1/0214/18 Analysis of spontaneous speech production in the Slovak language in the intact adult population and its use in speech therapy practice
VEGA 1/0677/23 Language impairment in the early stages of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease
APVV 21-0373 Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease from speech using artificial intelligence and social robotics
VEGA 1/0122/22 Contexts of verbal communication and language processes of the subdominant cerebral hemisphere
Lectures and posters at international and domestic scientific conferences
Cséfalvay, Zs., Kevická, V., Pelclová, M.: The Slovak and Czech MLSE - preliminary results. The International MLSE workshop. St. George University London, Oct. 9-10. 2023, London, UK.
XV. Slovak psychiatric congress – poster presentation: Spontaneous speech in patients with neurodegenrative disease. Bratislava, 23. – 25. June 2022
XVII. International conference of the Slovak Associatons of Speech Pathology – oral presentation: Test of language contexts – TEJKO. Nový Smokovec, 12 – 14 October 2022.
Alzheimerfórum 2022 – oral presentation: Assessment of narrative skills in patients with dementia. Bratislava, September 21st 2022
Aphasiological symposium – oral presentation: What to observe in spontaneous speech of persons with neurogenic communication disorders? Prague, 16 – 17 June 2023
XVI. International conference of the Slovak Associatons of Speech Pathology – oral presentation: Assessment of language processes on the discourse level. Nový Smokovec, 11 – 13 October 2018
Nordic Aphasia Conference 2019 – poster presentation: Proposal for evaluation of oral discourse in adult population with neurogenic communication disorders (work in progress). Turku, Finland, 13 – 15 June 2019
Neurogenic communication disorders vol. XIII. – oral presentation: Discourse analysis of Slovak speaking patients with Parkinson’s disease. Bratislava, 18 – 19 October 2019
XXVIII. Colloquium of young linguists – oral presentation: A speech therapy approach to the assessment of oral discourse. Nitra, 20 – 22 November 2019
33rd Czech and Slovak Neurological Congress – poster presentation. Analysis of linguistic markers in the discourses of patients with Parkinson’s disease. Prague, 27 – 30 November 2019