Linguistic and Childhood Language Development Specialist (AAC) - Norwegian

Tobii Dynavox is seeking a highly qualified Linguistic and Childhood Language Development specialist to support the development and review of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) content for a specific target-language community. This project is critical in ensuring that AAC content is linguistically and culturally meaningful, relevant, and aligned with real-world communication needs.

Responsibilities

Contribute knowledge and expertise to childhood language development in the target language; Help develop a lexical database that organizes words by part of speech and morphological form; Support the evaluation and selection of existing lexical data sources; Review lexical data for errors and make corrections as needed; Collaborate closely with software developers and AAC content experts to define language-specific software features and expected behaviors based on the syntactic and grammatical structure of the target language; Review the software product and AAC implementations to ensure that vocabulary, grammar, and syntax in the target language are well supported for children’s communication needs

Requirements

Native speaker of the target language; Fluency in English; Background in linguistics and childhood language development; Strong understanding of the grammatical structure and morphology of the target language, with the ability to discuss complex linguistic concepts with English-speaking developers; Strong knowledge of research on language development and vocabulary acquisition in the target language for typically developing children; Conceptual understanding of AAC principles and how vocabulary, grammar, and language development are represented in AAC systems

Nice to have

Familiarity with AAC vocabulary organization, content design, or communication support tools for children; Experience reviewing lexical resources, language data, or language-focused software products

Benefits

A meaningful role with significant impact on the AAC community in the target region; The opportunity to shape communication tools used by individuals with complex communication needs; Collaboration with an experienced and international development team; Competitive project-based compensation; Flexible scheduling within the agreed project timeline