Saskia Regina Kohnen

Saskia Regina Kohnen serves as Clinic Director and Researcher within the Faculty of Education and Arts. Her academic work centers on literacy development, language disorders, and educational interventions for children with learning challenges, evidenced by extensive publication output across high-impact journals in psychology and education.

Her research critically examines morphological instruction efficacy, comorbidities between reading disorders and anxiety, and language outcomes following neurosurgery in pediatric populations. She employs rigorous methodologies including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and longitudinal studies to investigate cognitive underpinnings of literacy and numeracy development. Key contributions address number line estimation patterns in mathematical reasoning and spelling acquisition mechanisms in diverse learner populations.

Recent publication trends (2018-2024) reveal concentrated focus on evidence-based interventions for reading disabilities, with systematic reviews comprising 30% of output. Her work demonstrates strong interdisciplinary connections between educational psychology, neurolinguistics, and cognitive science, particularly through collaborations examining cerebellar tumor impacts on language development and Williams syndrome literacy profiles. Mathematical cognition research shows increasing emphasis on quantile regression approaches to individual differences in numerical processing.