Professor Franz Stachowiak
PhD
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PositionProfessor - Speech Pathology
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CampusAlbury / Wodonga
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Location673/406
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Phone/Fax02 6051 9132
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Franz started as a neurolinguist in the dept. of Neurology of the RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1973, where he published numerous articles on the classical subtypes of aphasia and on specific problems of patients with neurological communication disorders. From 1979 till 1981 he worked as a neuro/psycholinguist in the department of linguistics of the University of Cologne in a project on language universals. Subsequently he held a position as a clinical linguist at the Language and Speech Rehabilitation Clinic of the Rheinische Kliniken in Bonn, during which he organized several national and EU-international research projects. He directed a European concerted action on the efficacy of technology in the assessment and rehabilitation of brain damaged patients and participated in further EU-projects.
In 1994 he was appointed Full Professor in special education and language and speech pathology at the University of Leipzig, where he built up new department. In 2002 he followed a call to the Justus Liebig University in Gießen, where he –again- built up the department of Language and Speech Pathology in Special Education. He was appointed Prof in Speech Pathology at CSU in 2011.
Roles
- Head of Speech Pathology
Teaching
Franz was born in Nettesheim near Cologne in West Germany. He studied English, Latin, Linguistics and Psychology at the Universities of Cologne and Newcastle upon Tyne and finished his PHD (Dr.Phil.) at the Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen with a dissertation on the semantic structure of the subjective lexicon. He received his Venia legendi (habilitation) from the University of Dortmund. Franz is married and has three children.
Subject Delivery
Franz is the subject coordinator of SPH 308
Innovations in Teaching
Franz developed an "electronic tutorium" for the support of his students in Germany and has begun to develop multimedia online courses in Speech Pathology at CSU. He is interested in research on SLE (simulated learning environments) and the development of standard patients for DE learning.
Research
Franz Stachowiak's recent research was on the relationship between the pragmatics of word order in texts and neuropsychological functions such as attention and working memory. Franz is a member of a French research project on prehistoric art and contributed to this from a neuroaesthetic perspective, which he now tries to apply to Australian aboriginal rock art. His major interest are studies on the efficacy and usability of computer assisted or internet based teletherapy programs. Together with Prof. Josep Vendrell from Barcelona he is working on a new approach to cognitive rehabilitation via tele-therapy.
Current Research Projects
- Cognitive decline in diabetes
with Dr Herbert Jelinek