Karin Pfaller-Frank

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Karin Pfaller-Frank (* 1958 in Leoben , Austria ) is an Austrian speech therapist and president of logopädieaustria, the Austrian professional association of speech therapists.

Live and act

Pfaller-Frank completed an apprenticeship as a kindergarten and after-school teacher at the Federal Institute for Kindergarten and Hort Pedagogy of the Cross Sisters in Bruck / Mur and then studied speech therapy in Linz as well as a master's degree at the Danube University Krems and a doctorate in health sciences at the Sankt-Elisabeth- University of Bratislava .

She has been a speech therapist since 1978 and has held numerous teaching positions at academies of medical-technical services, which in Austria were converted into universities of applied sciences in 2005. In addition, she taught the special subjects of myofunctional therapy and logopaedics at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Klagenfurt , the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences in Graz , the Innsbruck University of Applied Sciences and the Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences . She is the founder and project manager of the university course in speech therapy at Danube University Krems and a permanent university lecturer. She also gives lectures at conferences, among other things.

Since 1986 she has been representing the professional association (formerly the Federal Association of Speech Therapy). Initially as a representative in the federal state of Styria , from 2006 as vice-president of the Austrian professional association. She has been president of the logopädieaustria professional association since 2014 . In this context, she represents the profession in Austria and internationally. She is a member of the Neurology Expert Group at Gesundheit-Österreich GmbH.

Pfaller-Frank also runs a speech therapy practice in Graz. She is married and has two kids.

Scientific focus

Her scientific and clinical focus is on myofunctional disorders, speech therapy interventions for rare diseases, function-oriented diagnostics, facial paresis, cleft lip, jaw and palate, speech disorders, speech disorders.

The most important publications dealt with the investigation of the relationships between structures and functions in the field of speech therapy / dentistry / orthodontics. As a student of Rodolfo Castillo Morales , Beatriz Padovan, Nelson Annunciato and Juan Brondo, the connection between structure, function and interactions became an important approach to practical intervention in speech therapy disorders. The central starting point for treating a disorder is the neurological basis.

In addition, she has made significant contributions to the formal legal recognition of speech therapy as a scientific discipline in the field of systematics of the sciences (ÖFOS 2012), the version of the revised international classification Fields of Science and Technology (FOS), which is known as Fields of Research and Development (FORD) was published in the Frascati Manual 2015 and its application is binding in an international comparison and especially within the European statistical system. Among other things, she has for the first time provided an approach to the socio-economic assessment of the disorders in the catalog of indications of speech therapy , in particular the determination of a national economic potential of speech therapy in the sense of the cost-benefit analysis , the national economic accounting of the effects and the long-term social effects of speech therapy therapies.

Publications (selection)

  • with Wilhelm Frank, Brigitte Konta: Oral health after orthodontic treatment with fixed appliances. HTA report 66 of the German Federal Ministry of Health - DIMDI department
  • Karin Pfaller: Positioning speech therapy in the systematics of science and professions in health care. Master thesis. Danube University Krems
  • Treatment hierarchies for orofacial dysfunction . Information from Orthodontics & Orthodontics 2019; 51 (03): 201-206. doi: 10.1055 / a-0961-6122 . Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart New York.
  • Karin Pfaller: The social and economic potential of speech therapy in Austria. Dissertation in the field of health sciences. St. Elisabeth University, Bratislava

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karin Pfaller_Frank: "What is still going on in the child's mouth? Key symptoms of orofacial dysfunction". ÖGK - Austrian Society for Pediatric Dentistry, March 8, 2020, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  2. ^ Team - Danube University Krems. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  3. ^ Lakes Symposium: 17th Carinthian Lakes Symposium. logopaedieaustria, accessed on July 1, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ logopaedieaustria: organization. Accessed July 1, 2020 (German).
  5. ^ MTD-Austria: Chairwoman of the professional association. MTD-Austria, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ DBL: DACH four-country conference. In: Forum Logopädie - page 3.dbl, November 1, 2017, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Board of Directors. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  8. ^ Gesundheit Österreich GmbH: Expert group on neurology. Gesundheit Österreich GmbH, accessed on July 1, 2020 (German).
  9. ↑ logopaeden.at: Pfaller-Frank Karin PhDr. MSc - speech therapist. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfaller-Frank, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian speech therapist and president of the Austrian professional association logopädieaustria
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Leoben , Austria