Research & Publications

• 27 contributions published, including:
  • 12 peer-reviewed articles in international English-language journals
  • 13 peer-reviewed articles in German-language journals and edited volumes
  • 1 editorship of a special edition/issue: Leisure and Sport Activities among People with Disabilities: Opportunities and Challenges (Disabilities)
  • Collaboration with numerous external colleagues from Germany and worldwide, particularly from the USA, Israel, and Europe
• 12 presentations at national and international conferences
• Editorship of four international journals:
  • Empirische Sonderpädagogik
  • International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities
  • Insights into Learning Disabilities
  • Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal

Projects & Initiatives

• Organization of the 2nd ELN Literacy Summit Cologne (March 10–12, 2025), a three-day international conference with a scientific program
• Successful establishment and consolidation of the dyslexia assessment center (LRS-Gutachtenstelle)

Groundbreaking Research Findings

• Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS): The adapted German version of this evidence-based strategy sustainably promotes reading fluency and reading comprehension in students with reading difficulties, including German-as-a-second-language learners
• Graphic Organizers and Story Maps: Multi-component interventions using storytelling approaches or story maps significantly improve reading comprehension and writing skills of students with reading and spelling difficulties as well as German-as-a-second-language learners
• Mathematics Support: The use of mnemonic techniques such as the pegword method substantially promotes computational competencies in students with mathematical difficulties, particularly in learning multiplication tables
• Video-Based Approaches: Video modeling facilitates the acquisition of fraction calculation in children with learning disabilities
• Digital Learning Environments: Interactive digital platforms such as escape rooms sustainably improve grapheme-phoneme correspondence and spelling competence of young English learners
• Phonological Awareness: Phonological awareness training positively affects the recoding abilities of kindergarten children at risk for reading and spelling difficulties, including children with behavioral difficulties
• Argumentative Writing: Targeted promotion of argumentative writing skills shows positive effects in young adults transitioning from school to work
• Sports and Social Learning: Team sports such as baseball have positive effects on self-regulation and social learning in young people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Special Education Diagnostics: Interdisciplinary appro

Milestones in Teaching

• Completion and publication of the standard reference work "Interventionen bei Lernstörungen" (Lauth, Grünke & Brunstein, 2025, Hogrefe), which combines comprehensive foundations, methods, and evidence-based interventions for practice