Funding Period: 03/2025 – 12/2029

Funding: Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture (DE: Nds. Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur)

Lead: Prof. Dr. Ulla Licandro

Team Member: Dr. Aleksandra Kappenberg

Short description: The aim of the project is to comprehensively analyse the communicative participation of monolingual and multilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD). This involves a mixed methods approach that integrates both quantitative and qualitative methods. The focus is not only on the children's linguistic and communicative competences and general participation, but also on their perspectives on communicative participation in different areas of life. In addition, key success factors for the communicative participation of children with DLD in school contexts are analysed based on the experiences of experts. This forms the basis for identifying possible knowledge gaps and developing professionalisation strategies for (special needs) education professionals in order to promote targeted support in communicative participation.

Funding Period: 01/2023 - 12/2025

Funding: SPRUNG/ Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all

Lead: Prof. Dr. Ulla Licandro, Prof. Dr. Esther Ruigendijk

Team Members: Lara Hardebeck, Paula Bartsch (student assistant)

Short description: The aim of this project is to identify barriers and opportunities for the successful participation of students with hearing loss in inclusive educational settings. Specifically, we investigate the participation experiences and the opportunities for participation of students with hearing loss from the perspective of students, teachers, and parents and examine the connections with language skills and aspects of classroom acoustics using qualitative and quantitative methods.

Information on current dissertation projects of the working group can be found here.