Prof. Dr. Ulla Beushausen is a Speech and Language Therapist (logopedist), educated in Germany. She studied psycholinguistics and phonetics at the Univeristy of Munic, Germany and received her Master Degree in 1991 and her PH. D. in 1996 by a clinical trial about behavior modification in patients with public speaking anxiety. After working for several years with voice disorders, she is since 2001 head of the department of logopedics at the HAWK Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst, Fachhochschule Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen in Germany.