Stefan Dzikowski

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Stefan Dzikowski (born March 2, 1957 in Bremen ) is a German author of non-fiction books on the subject of autism , therapist and board member of the Federal Association " Autism Germany" eV

Life

Dzikowski grew up in Bremen and graduated from high school on Parsevalstrasse . He studied social pedagogy and psychology at the University of Bremen . For a few years he attended the drama school of the Bremen Amateur Theater Association and appeared on small stages in northern Germany.

In 1975 he began his therapeutic career in a special school for autistic children. At that time, when there was still little knowledge about the learning and development abilities of autistic children, Dzikowski worked on the so-called "Bremen Project". Here he met some German autism researchers such as Hermann Cordes and Hans E. Kehrer . In 1980 Dzikowski moved from there to the Autism Therapy Center in Bremen , where he still works today. In 1993 he founded the "Institute for Perception Therapy and Intervision " in Bremen.

Dzikowski has published numerous books and magazine articles about his experiences with autistic children and their parents. In addition to therapeutic work, the focus is on early detection and therapy, “sensory integration therapy”, advanced training and autism research. His widely used documentation Causes of Autism presents with 60 theories practically all of the aetiological ' explanatory models of autism mentioned in the literature . Since 1999 he has been a member of the board of the Federal Association "Autism Germany" eV in Hamburg.

Dzikowski is visiting professor at Danube University Krems .

Awards

In 1987 Dzikowski received the Bremen Study Prize for special scientific achievements in the field of social sciences and humanities for the development of sensory integration therapy for people with autism.

Works

  • with Helga Ache, Barbara Bernhard u. a .: Approaching the foreign. Report on a trip to Turkey , Bremen 1984.
  • with Cordula Vogel: Disorders of sensory integration in autistic children. Problems of diagnosis, therapy and success control , Deutscher Studienverlag Weinheim 1988, 2nd revised and expanded edition 1993, ISBN 3-89271-057-0 .
  • Edited with Christiane Arens: Autism Today. Volume 1: Current developments in the therapy of autistic children , Dortmund 1988, ISBN 3-8080-0160-7 .
  • Edited with Christiane Arens: Autism Today. Volume 2: New Aspects of Promoting Autistic Children. Body therapies, restraint therapy, drug treatment, psychoanalytic methods , Dortmund 1990, ISBN 3-8080-0217-4 .
  • Causes of Autism - A Documentation , Weinheim 1993, 2nd Edition 1996, ISBN 389271407X .
  • with Hermann Cordes: early support for autistic children , Bremen 1991, ISBN 3-9800832-6-8 .
  • Communication between partners: Early childhood autism , series of publications by the Federal Working Group on Help for the Disabled, 6th edition, Düsseldorf 2000.
  • Early detection is possible! , Verlag der Österreichischen Autistenhilfe, Innsbruck 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Cordes (ed.): Promotion of autistic children. Concept of the Bremen project. With contributions by Christiane Arens, Hermann Cordes, Winfried and Waltraut Doering, Stefan Dzikowski and Volker Helbig. Bremen 1987
  2. ↑ Early detection of autistic children - results of an action. In: Autismus , No. 34 (1992), pp. 20-23; Early therapy and support for people with autism. , in: Autismus , No. 59 (2006), pp. 4–8.
  3. ↑ What makes therapy successful? Accompanying Variables in Support for Autistic Children and Girls with RETT Syndrome. , in: praxis ergotherapie 6 (1993), No. 1, pp. 11-15.
  4. ↑ Special Education and more ( Memento from September 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Dzikowski, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German non-fiction author and therapist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen