Wiebke Scharff Rethfeldt
Hochschule Bremen (Member and Deputy chair)
Germany
Areas of Specialty:
• Diversity, cultural, and linguistic speech and language development
• Language assessment in multilingual and culturally diverse
contexts
• Primary Language Impairment in monolingual and multilingual
children
• Clinical intercultural competence, intercultural training, and clinical
reasoning
• Culturally sensitive SLT service
• Initial education and professional development across Europe,
German delegate to the Comité Permanentde Liaisondes
Orthophonistes-Logopèdes de l’Union Europèenne (CPLOL)
Populations of Focus:
• Infants and children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse
backgrounds
• Children with language delays, primary language impairment
• Multilingual children and caregivers; refugee, premature, and
internationally adopted children
Age Range:
• Infancy through adulthood
Weblink:
https://www.hs-bremen.de/internet/de/hsb/struktur/mitarbeiter/wscharff/