Dr. Sarah-Maria Thumbeck

PhD scholarship holder at the Nachwuchskolleg Sprachbeherrschung

Topic of doctoral thesis: "Text comprehension impairments in aphasia: model-based diagnostics and strategy-based intervention".

2010 – 2014 Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg

Bachelor of Arts: Comparative German Studies (1st major) with a focus on linguistics and didactics, Ethnology (2nd major)

Since 2014

Teacher of German as a foreign language and German as a second language in various projects

2014 – 2017 Philipps-University of Marburg

Master of Arts: Clinical Linguistics, Master's thesis: "A strategy-based intervention to improve text comprehension in acquired text comprehension difficulties".

Master of Arts: German as a Foreign Language, Master's thesis: "A German-language version of the Test de Compréhension de Textes to assess text comprehension".

Since 2017

Clinical linguist in various institutions: Diagnosis and therapy of adults and children with disorders in an acute setting and in the chronic phase.

Since April 2020

University of Erfurt - PhD scholarship holder

Text comprehension not only holds many unanswered questions in the field of research, but is also indispensable in many areas of everyday life. I am particularly interested in theory- and evidence-based ways to improve text comprehension in children and adults (especially people with aphasia). In my doctoral thesis I would like to develop and evaluate a therapy concept in which theoretical findings are processed in an application-oriented way. In this way, I would like to create a link between theory and practice and contribute to people with text comprehension impairments being able to better perform reading-related activities in everyday life again. It will be exciting to look at the results in the context of current models.

I remain a big fan of interdisciplinary collaboration and welcome topic-related suggestions and ideas.