Publications and presentations

Publications

2026

Theis, N. & Rohrmann, T. (2026). Language development at the intersection of gender, multilingualism and educational background. In: Rohrmann, T. & Wachtlin, B. (Eds.). Language and Gender in Early Education. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer

Theis, N., Rohrmann, T., Wachtlin, B. (2026). Language support needs and gender in the Hildesheim region: Perspectives for interprofessional cooperation in language support (PiKS). Final report. Hildesheim. https://doi.org/10.48547/202606-006

2025

Praetze, L., Theis, N., Betzoldt, T., Rohrmann, T. & Wachtlin, B. (2025). Assessment of language skills in multilingual children. Possibilities and limitations of standardised assessment. KiTa aktuell ND (11/2025), 4–7.

Academic presentations

Theis, N., Siemens, A., Wachtlin, B. & Rohrmann, T. (2026). Unlocking potential: Enhancing language assessment in multilingual contexts through interprofessional collaboration in ECEC. Presentation at the 34th EECERA Conference, Madeira.

Theis, N., Wachtlin, B. & Rohrmann, T. (2026). Do boys have a greater need for speech and language therapy than girls? Intersectional analyses of language difficulties in pre-school children. Presentation at the 54th Congress of the German Federal Association for Speech and Language Therapy (dbl), Weimar.

Wachtlin, B., Theis, N. & Rohrmann, T. (2025). Gender effects on language competence in pre-school children – a potential for collaboration between the education and healthcare systems in Germany? Presentation at the 33rd World Congress of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP), Malta.

Theis, N., Wachtlin, B. & Rohrmann, T. (2025). A gender gap in language development? The need for language support in pre-school children: the case of Hildesheim. Poster presented at the 53rd Congress of the German Federal Association for Speech and Language Therapy (dbl) (dbl), Bremen. https://irp.cdn-website.com/f0005d37/files/uploaded/Theis_Wachtlin_Rohrmann_Gender-Gap_in_der_Sprachentwicklung.pdf

Siemens, A., Theis, N., Wachtlin, B. & Rohrmann, T. (2025). Development of an interprofessional municipal network in language education for multilingual children at the interface between speech and language therapy and early years education. Presentation at the Multilingual Childhoods Conference, Luxembourg.

Theis, N., Siemens, A., Wachtlin, B. & Rohrmann, T. (2025). Language Education and Speech Therapy (SpraBiL) – Establishment of an interprofessional municipal network based on the developmental trajectories of multilingual children. Current Speech Therapy: Research – Knowledge – Transfer, 12(1). 24th Scientific Symposium of the dbs e. V., Cologne. https://www.dbs-ev.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Sprachtherapie_aktuell/2025/e2025-28_Theis_et_al.pdf

Theis, N., Thomas, J.P., Neumann, K., Dazert, S. & Völter, C. (2022). Postoperative outcomes in children from migrant backgrounds who received cochlear implants at a later age. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Scientific Meeting of the German Society for Phoniatrics and Paediatric Audiology (DGPP), Leipzig. www.egms.de/static/en/meetings/dgpp2022/22dgpp42.shtm