Andrea Wanka

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Andrea Wanka (born Scheele; born April 4, 1981 ) is a German special education teacher . She is an expert in the field of deafblind / hearing impaired education and took over the first professorship for this subject at the Heidelberg University of Education in the 2018 winter semester . Her research is particularly focused on Usher and CHARGE syndromes .

Career

Andrea Wanka studied from 2001 first at the PH Schwäbisch Gmünd , then at the PH Heidelberg teaching at special schools specializing in education for the blind and deaf and the extension course in special needs early intervention. In 2006 she completed an extension course in special needs early intervention with special needs education for the deaf and the blind. She submitted her dissertation there in 2011 , for which she carried out a long-term study on children with CHARGE syndrome.

Since 2012, she has been working for the St. Franziskus Heiligenbronn Foundation as a representative for deafblindness and hearing impairment . In 2015 she received the Young Professional Leadership Award for the promotion of young scientists at the congress of the Deafblind World Association for her work . From 2009 to 2014, she taught deafblindness at the University of Birmingham , in particular training concepts in Germany.

When the first professorship for deafblind / hearing-impaired education was established in Heidelberg, she was appointed professor to develop it.

Wanka is a member and board member of several associations that deal with deafblindness , including the state working group for deafblind Baden-Württemberg founded in 2011 and the world association Deafblind International since 2012 .

Publications

  • Diversity of the early dialogue of hearing-impaired infants and toddlers with CHARGE syndrome: an empirical-exploratory long-term study on the constituents of early dialogic interactions and their development under the effect of a multiple sensory impairment . (Dissertation). Median-Verlag von Killisch-Horn, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-941146-25-9 .
  • (Co-author): Deaf-blind assistance: a textbook . Ed .: Working group of the TBA qualification institutes. Median-Verlag von Killisch-Horn, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-941146-61-7 .

Articles (selection)

  • Andrea Wanka: Children and adolescents with CHARGE syndrome in education for the hearing impaired . In: DFGS-Forum - Current question of the deaf and hard of hearing education . 2012, p. 30–50 ( digitized via dfgs-info.org [PDF]).

Editing

  • with Ursula Horsch (ed.): The CHARGE syndrome: a specialist book . Median-Verlag von Killisch-Horn, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941146-13-6 .
  • with Ursula Horsch (ed.): The Usher Syndrome - an acquired hearing impairment; Basics, causes, help . Reinhardt, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-497-02329-5 .
  • with Claudia Junghans (ed.): Young people and adults with CHARGE syndrome: Children become young people, young people become adults: a book about growing up and becoming independent with CHARGE . Median-Verlag von Killisch-Horn, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-941146-46-4 .
  • with Ursula Horsch (ed.): Including educational moments for children with CHARGE syndrome: a specialist book for educators, therapists, pediatricians, those affected and their environment . Median-Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-941146-14-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andrea Wanka - Vita. (No longer available online.) In: andrea-wanka.de. Archived from the original on August 29, 2018 ; accessed on October 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Wanka, Andrea. In: Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Deaf-blind pedagogy: first professorship established in Germany. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Advisory Board - Leben mit Usher-Syndrom eV Retrieved on October 20, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ 13th CHARGE conference June 28-30, 2019 Lauterbach. (PDF) In: charge-syndrom.de. CHARGE Syndrom eV, June 2019, accessed on October 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Andrea Wanka: Diversity of the early dialogue of hearing-impaired infants and toddlers with CHARGE syndrome: an empirical-explorative long-term study on the constituents of early dialogic interactions and their development under the effect of a multiple sensory impairment . Median loss von Killisch-Horn, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-941146-25-9 ( dnb.de [accessed October 11, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Deafblind Commissioner Dr. Andrea Wanka appointed professor at the PH Heidelberg. September 6, 2018, accessed October 11, 2019 .
  8. ^ Awards - Deafblind International. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Lectures, workshops & teaching. (No longer available online.) In: andrea-wanka.de. Archived from the original on August 28, 2018 ; accessed on October 20, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Our members | LAG Deafblind BW. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  11. ^ Organization Structure - Deafblind International. Retrieved October 20, 2019 (UK English).
  12. ↑ Andrea Wanka: Children and adolescents with CHARGE syndrome in education for the hearing impaired . In: DFGS-Forum - Current question of the deaf and hard of hearing education . 2012, p. 30–50 ( digitized via dfgs-info.org [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Wanka, Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheele, Andrea (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German special education teacher and university professor with a focus on deafblindness
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1981