Verena FrankView profile
Researcher
- Early Childhood Language Acquisition
- Pre-Linguistic Communication
- Language Prevention and Early Intervention
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Dr. Verena Frank is a Scientific Associate at the Chair of Pedagogy and Intervention for Language and Communication Impairments within the Institute for Special Education at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. She contributes to research in the Focus research laboratory IkoGeWo project and teaches in academic speech therapy and teacher training programs. Her research focuses on Early childhood language acquisition Pre-linguistic communication Preventative language strategies Cross-cultural infant vocal development with particular emphasis on multimodal approaches in inclusive settings. Recent publications highlight trends in Iconic gesture applications for vocabulary expansion German Sign Language (DGS) integration Infant comfort sound analysis Preterm infant communication development Acoustic vocal research Early intervention frameworks spanning academic speech therapy, developmental linguistics, and special education. She supervises bachelor's theses in academic speech therapy and participates in state examination committees. Active in the Deutscher Bundesverband der akademischen Sprachtherapeuten (dbs), her work connects academia with practical implementation in Sprach-Kitas and schools.