SRH Hochschule für Gesundheit
Head of Study Programme

Prof. Dr. habil. Claudia Wahn

Head of Department Therapy Sciences, Head of Program Speech Therapy, B.Sc., Professor of Speech Therapy Sciences; Coordinator Erasmus+.

E-Mail: claudia.wahn@srh.de
Phone: + 496221882873
About me

About me

Prof. Dr. habil. Claudia Wahn was appointed full professor at the SRH University of Health in 2012.

She successfully completed her studies in education with a focus on special and remedial education/education of the speech impaired and psychology at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen with a specialization in the elective subjects of education of the speech impaired and patholinguistics at the University of Cologne with a diploma (Justus Liebig University Giessen).

She successfully completed her second degree in German Linguistics/ Linguistics and Literature of the Middle Ages as well as Educational Science (main focus: applied linguistics, field of clinical linguistics) as Magistra (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen).

In 2002, she received her doctorate in the field of speech impairment education (University of Leipzig).

In 2010, she completed her habilitation and received the venia legendi for the subjects of remedial and special education with a focus on speech therapy education and the extension option in patholinguistics (Justus Liebig University Giessen).

Since 2006, numerous Erasmus guest lectureships/ professorships in linguistics (DAAD) at the Swedish-Finnish ÅBO Akademi/ University of Turku, Finland, at the Institute of Germanic Philology, as well as receipt of an international research grant from the Forskare of ÅBO Akademi/ University of Turku, Finland in September 2008.

Since June 2011 evaluator in the EU research framework programs: Evaluator/ Review Expert.

Since October 2012 course director in the training-integrated course of studies in speech therapy at the SRH University of Health.

Since January 2013: International Coordinator/ Head of the International Office/ IO (Erasmus+ and Non-EU) at the SRH University of Health.

Since 2020: Supervision of a group of doctoral students

Since 2020: application DAAD for a visiting scientist (Universtiät Istanbul) in the post-doc phase on the way to habilitation.

She is the head of the Department of Therapeutic Sciences at the SRH University of Health.

Since April 2021 GA' for the EU/ DAAD in the area of *Strategic Partnerships* (Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships).

An overview of Prof. Dr. Claudia Wahn's professional career can be found here.

An overview of Prof. Dr. Claudia Wahn's continuing education activities can be found here.

E-mail: claudia.wahn@srh.de

Unless Prof. Dr. habil. Claudia Wahn cannot be reached via the phone number above, you can also reach her at the following phone number: +49 6221 88 28 73.

 

Current research:

  • Development of language comprehension in children with severe ICP and anarthria who use AAC, with special emphasis on semantic-lexical and morphological-syntactic acquisition (more)
  • LogoKiTT - AI-based training system for people with speech and language disorders (application to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy for a ZIM project

 

Memberships

  • scientific advisory board of the journal "Sonderpädagogische Förderung heute" (special education today)
  • Scientific advisory board of the journal "Pädagogik der Gesundheitsberufe - Zeitschrift für den interprofessionellen Dialog" (Pedagogy of the Health Professions - Journal for Interprofessional Dialogue)
  • Review committee for the dbs sponsorship award 2016
  • Advisory board of the German Federal Association of Academic Speech Therapists (dbs), regional group Rhineland from 2004 to 09/ 2012, regional group Baden-Württemberg since 10/ 2012
  • Permanent Conference of Lecturers in Pedagogy for Speech Disabilities since 2003
  • Member of the State Examination Office for First State Examinations for Teachers at Schools - Cologne
  • State Examination Office for First State Examinations for Teachers at Schools - Berlin
  • Senate Commission for the Award of Graduate Scholarships of the University of Cologne from 2007 to 2012
  • Doctoral Committee of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne from 2006-2010
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