My research is on language acquisition in German-speaking children focussing on
- the acquisition of grammar
- individual differences and variability in early language development
- language acquisition in hearing-impaired children with cochlear implants
Practical application
Normed German adaptation of the CDI (Mac-Arthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories) toddler scale https://mb-cdi.stanford.edu/
Szagun, G., Stumper, B. & Schramm, S.A. (2023). Fragebogen zur frühkindlichen Sprachentwicklung: FRAKIS (Langform) und FRAKIS-K (Kurzform), 2. Auflage. Universitätsverlag Potsdam. https://www.uni-Potsdam.de/de/inklusion/ese/schramm/frakis
An English version of the norming study can be downloaded here. FRAKIS CDI
The instrument is widely used by paediatricians as part of standard preventive developmental checks.
For more articles and also guidelines for paediatricians see the equivalent German page.
Assessment of language development in children with cochlear implants
Szagun, G. (2012). Wege zur Sprache: Ein Ratgeber zum Spracherwerb bei Kindern mit Cochlea-Implantat. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
Szagun, G. & Stumper, B. (2013). Der Einsatz des Elternfragebogens FRAKIS zur Erfassung des Sprachstandes bei Kindern mit Cochlea-Implantat. HNO, 61, 404-408.
My research has been funded by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), Bonn
https://.dfg.de
Ministry of Science and Culture of the Federal State of Lower Saxony, Hannover
https://mwk.niedersachsen.de