Special Education - focus on Hearing and Communication, including inclusive education

• June 2, 2026: Save the Date: To mark the start of the 2026/2027 winter semester, the PIR Chair is offering orientation days (PDF, 140 KB) for first-year students.
• June 10, 2026: Laura Avemarie represented the department at the EARLI Joint SIG 4 & SIG 11 Conference 2026 in Helsinki. There, she presented findings from the ReaDi research project on the effectiveness of a training program for professionals on reading digital and multilingual picture books aloud.
• May 29, 2026: As part of the symposium “Early Intervention – Effective Support 2026” in Bergisch-Gladbach, Marike Dorhs gave a presentation on the development and promotion of executive functions in deaf/hard-of-hearing preschool children. She also led a workshop in which participants were able to explore the topic in greater depth and gain insight into the “Hexe-Mini” support program.
• April 28, 2026: Lillian Siebert represented the department at the 2026 Bilingualism Matters Symposium in Milan, where international researchers and professionals exchanged views on current perspectives on multilingualism. In the session on bimodal bilingualism, she presented preliminary findings from the 2Bi research project in her talk titled “Development of deaf and hard-of-hearing first graders receiving bimodal-bilingual instruction.”
• April 27, 2026: Laura Avemarie was appointed by the Executive Board as LMU’s Anti-Discrimination Officer. In this role, she advises and supports academic staff in cases of violations of personal rights, particularly in cases of sexual harassment or discriminatory behavior. We warmly congratulate her on this appointment and wish her every success in her new role.
• April 1, 2026: Welcome! Oliver Krebs has been supporting the department team as a student assistant on the 2Bi project since April.
• March 20, 2026: Dennis Oberleiter participated online in the “Working Group on Sexual Violence” of the German Society for Prevention and Intervention in Child Abuse, Neglect, and Sexual Violence (DGfPI), where he presented the DigGaH project, initial research findings, and the materials developed.
• March 18, 2026: Laura Avemarie presented the findings from the DigGaH and ReaDi research projects at the 13th Congress of the Society for Empirical Educational Research at TUM in Munich.
• March 5, 2026: Stefanie Fiocchetta and Kirsten Ludwig attended the 28th Annual Conference of the German Society for Audiology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Audiologie e.V.) in Oldenburg, where they gave a keynote presentation on the topic “From Elementary School to College: Factors Influencing Educational Success from the Perspective of deaf/hard-of-hearing Students.”
• March 2, 2026: Roundtable discussion with representatives from associations for people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, professional associations, and education administrators regarding the participatory development of new academic regulations for the chair’s various degree programs

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