PhDr. Zuzana Oravkinová, PhD.
Contact and position
ORCID: 0000-0001-6977-7924
e-mail: oravkinova.zuzana@icloud.com
position: lecturer
Education and professional growth
1986 – 1989 Leningrad State Paedagocical Institute of A. I. Gercen, Department of Psychopaedia and Communication Disorders
1989 – 1991 Moscow State Paedagogical University, Department of Psychopaedia and Communication Disorders, Master degree
1992 – 1995 Institute for Continual Education of Health Care Workers, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Atestation Study of Clinical Speech-Language Pathology
2004 – 2007 Department of Communication Disorders, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, doctoral study for PhDr. degree. Thesis: Early intervention in children with cleft lip and/or palate
2006 ETSU - East Tennessee State University, College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Sciences, Departement of Communication Disorders, Internship Study
2008 – 2013 Department of Communication Disorders, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, doctoral study for Ph.D. degree. Thesis: Early speech and language development in children with cleft lip and/or palate
2016 It takes two to talk, Hanen Certification Workshop, Rome
Previous and current work affiliations
1991 – 1992 Health Care Center Pezinok, speech-language pathologist
1992 – present University Hospital Bratislava, Ružinov, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Cleft Palate Center, speech-language pathologist
2000 – 2018 Department of Communication Disorders, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, external lecturer
2005 – 2016 Department of Clinical Speech and Language Pathology, Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, external lecturer
2008 – 2011 Department of Clinical Speech and Language Pathology, Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, Head of the Department
2004 – 2011 Slovak Association of Speech-Language Pathologists, member and representative for foreign affairs
2011 – 2013 Slovak Association of Speech-Language Pathologists, president 2005 – current Slovak Association for Cleft Palate, co-founder and member
2007 – 2014 CPLOL, Comité Permanent de Liaison des Otthophonistes/Logopédes de l´Union Européenneé (European Association for Speech and Language Pathologists), representative for Slovak Association of Speech-Language Pathologists
2013 – 2015 TASK FORCE, International research group of specialists in cleft care, Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, representative for Slovakia
2022 – current LogoPoint – Speech and Language Clinic, director and speech-language pathologist
Research focus
Intervention for children with cleft lip and/or palate
Early intervention for children with cleft lip and/or palate
Early speech and language development of children with cleft lip and/or palate
Teaching Courses at PdF UK
Cleft palate speech
Case study seminar in cleft palate speech
Grants and research activity
VEGA 1/0263/22 Identification Speech Sounds Disorder as prevention of dyslexia for preschool children. - member of the research team. (2022-2024).
Early intervention in children with cleft lip nad/or palate, pre-doctoral thesis, Oravkinova, 2007
Early speech and language development, doctoral thesis, Oravkinova, 2013
Evaluation of pre-verbal vocalisations in children with cleft lip nad/or palate. Supervision of master research and thesis, Glendová, 1996
Stimulation of early vocabulary and phonetic repertoire in in children with cleft lip nad/or palate. Supervision of master research and thesis, Fillová, 2016.
Evaluation of Real-Time Listening for Assessment of Early Phonological Skills in Slovak Children with Clefts. Supervision of master research and thesis, Zemánková, 2020
Creating and application of articulation test for children with clefts. Supervision of master research and thesis, Krčmárová, 2020.
Feeding of a cleft palate child. Creating of information brochure and educative video. Supervision of master research and thesis, Čengerová, 2021.
Evaluation of early phonetic repertoires of children with clefts by parents. Verification of reliability of a questionnaire and educational web page. Supervision of master research and thesis, Šugárová, 2021.
Creating and pilot application of Slovak adaptation of PEEPS-S test in children of 18 – 24 months of age. Supervision of master research and thesis, Árvai, 2022.
Evaluation of phonetic repertoires of children with and without clefts at age of 18 – 24 months from spontaneous speech samples and from PEEPS-S testing. Supervision of master research and thesis, Kešjarová, 2022.
Evaluation of predictors of cleft palate speech. Supervision of master research and thesis, Chovancová, current.
Active participation in professional events
FEDELEŠ J., KOKAVEC R., ORAVKINOVÁ Z.: Speech in mirror of pharyngeal flap surgery. Poster. II-nd Cleft Congress of International Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation. Munich, Germany, Sept. 15.-19. 2002.
Oravkinová Z.: Articulation therapy in children with clefts. Lecturing a 6-hour course for SLP-s at Dialóg, Center for children with SLD. Bratislava, 2003.
ORAVKINOVÁ Z: Early speech and language development in Slovak children with cleft lip and palate. Poster. European CPLOL Congress, Hague, 2012.
SCHERER N., ORAVKINOVÁ Z.: Longitudinal analysis of early speech and language milestones in children with cleft palate: A comparison of American and Slovak children. Oral presentation. International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA) Conference, Ireland, Cork, 2012.
Oravkinová, Z.: Phoneme-specific velopharyngeal insufficiency. Oral presentation at XIII. International congres of Slovak association of Speech and Language Pathologists, Štrbské Pleso, 2012
Oravkinová, Z.: Early speech-language development in children with clefts. Oral presentation. XIV. International congress of Slovak association of Speech and Language Pathologists, Štrbské Pleso, 2014.
Oravkinová, Z., Buntová D., Mišíková V.: Case Study – early intervention in child with cleft palate. Three case studies. Course of Slovak association of Speech and Language Pathologists, Bratislava, 2015.
ORAVKINOVA Z., ZEMANKOVA L.: Evaluation of Real Time Listening for Assessment of Early Phonological Skills in Slovak Children with Clefts. ACPA Annual Meeting 2021, Poster (published in Abstracts, Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 2021, Vol. 58(4S) 1-134.)