Curriculum Vitae

Education

2005		Habilitation in Linguistics at the Free University of Berlin. Habilitation thesis on the acquisition and processing of nouns and verbs
1999		PhD in Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany (supervisors: Ria De Bleser, Gisela Klann-Delius). Thesis on lexical development in German
1994		MA in Linguistics/German Studies, Free University of Berlin. Master’s thesis on the acquisition of internal state language in German children
1987-1994		Linguistics, German Literature, Psychology, at the Free University of Berlin
1983-1986		Education and exam as speech and language pathologist, University of Ulm, Germany.
Positions held
2013-present		Co-editor of LOGOS.
2007-present		Professor for clinical linguistics at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of German Studies, German Linguistics
2004-2007		Junior Professor for developmental language disorders at the University of Potsdam, Faculty of Human Sciences, Linguistics Department
2000-2004		Assistant Professor at the Free University of Berlin, faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, German Languages and Literature
1995-2000		Research assistant at the University of Potsdam, Faculty of Human Sciences, Linguistics Institute, department cognitive neuropsychology/ patholinguistics
1994-1995		Research assistant at the University of Potsdam, Institute of German Studies
1990-1994		Student assistant at the Free University of Berlin
1986-1989		Speech and language pathologist at the Public Health Office in Berlin
Research Activities
2003-2004		Research project: “naming and understanding of nouns and verbs in German and Korean children with Specific Language Impairment”, collaboration with Hae-Wook Lee, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, and So-Yeong Pae, Hallym University, Korea; supported by the Korean Research Foundation (KRF)
2002-2003		Research project: “naming of nouns and verbs in German and Korean children”, with Hae-Wook Lee, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea and So-Yeong Pae, Hallym University, Korea, supported by the Korean Research Foundation (KRF).
2000 - 2004		Post-doctoral research project: “acquisition and processing of nouns and verbs”, supported by the research commission of the Free University of Berlin
2002- 2003		participation in the research project: “emotional cues for the acquisition and storage of words in children between 18 and 24 months”, supported by the research commission of the Free University of Berlin, with Gisela Klann-Delius.
1996-1999		participation in the RC/DAAD-Program “The development of a picture naming test for nouns and verbs in German” project in cooperation with the University of Essex, England, Dept. of Psychology; with Ria De Bleser, Jackie Masterson, Jules Davidoff, Julia Siegmüller
1990-1994		participation as student assistant in the research project “emotional quality of mother-child interaction and its impact on the development of communicative competence in the child”, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), directed by Gisela Klann-Delius
Additional education
2005		participation in the mentoring program „ProFiL“; mentor: Wolfgang Klein
1997-1998		Supervision for therapists and supervisors
Clinical Experience
•		Courses and lectures in advanced training for speech and language therapists
•		Clinical work at the University of Potsdam and at the Center of Patholinguistics Potsdam (ZaPP) Assessment of SLI children Speech & language intervention with SLI children Parental counselling Supervision of students' clinical activities Development and evaluation of instruments and materials for assessment and intervention of SLI (see Kauschke & Siegmüller, 2002, Siegmüller & Kauschke, 2006)
•		Speech and language pathologist at the Public Health Office, Berlin, (children with SLI, mentally retarded children in schools for special education, children and adolescents with fluency disorders, aphasic patients)
Memberships
•		IASCL (International Association for the Study of Child Language)
•		vpl (Verband für Patholinguistik; association of patholinguists in Germany)
•		ZaPP e.V. (Zentrum für angewandte Patholinguistik Potsdam; Center for Applied Patholinguistics in Potsdam)
•		ZaPP Berlin (Zentrum für angewandte Psycho- und Patholinguistik; Center for Applied Psycho- and Patholinguistics in Berlin)
•		Interdisciplinary Center for European Languages at the FU Berlin
•		COST program of the European Science Foundation (ESF) „European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research“. Action 33: „Crosslinguistically Robust Stages of Children’s Linguistic Performance“
•		Editorial board of the journal „Die Sprachheilarbeit“
•		Responsible investigator at the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" at the Free Universität Berlin. Research Area A: "Presentation/Construction of Emotions in Language and non-linguistic systems".