Prof. Dr. Ingolf Prosetzky

Faculty of Social Sciences
Area of appointment: Special Education/Inclusion Studies

• Educational and everyday findings on Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS)
• Participation and participatory research
• Rehistoricization and cultural-historical human sciences

• WBS - Coping with everyday life and self-help options for families (10/2023 - 12/2024)
  Psychosocial challenges in coping with everyday life and resources of self-help options for families with a child with intellectual disabilities using the example of Williams-Beuren syndrome

• WBS - Needs analysis II: "How can we improve the quality of life of people with Williams-Beuren syndrome? Comment améliorer la qualité de vie des personnes porteuses du Syndrome de Williams? (04/2019 - 06/2022)
• WBS and friendship I: Establishing an international cooperation (04/2019 - 06/2022)
  Better understand the development of friendships, feelings of loneliness and victimization in people with WBS!
• Participatory (social) research: On the linking and application of socio-analytical, formative and helping research approaches (06/2018 - 12/2021)
• WBS and friendship II: Loneliness, social vulnerability and their psychological sequelae under conditions of intellectual disability - Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) as a key to understanding the development of the concept of "friendship"? (04/2019 - 12/2021)

• Public lecture series in the winter semester 2017/18 "The Federal Participation Act and its (possible) consequences for the region", Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences
• First family meeting of the WBS regional group Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony / symposium on WBS on April 21 and 22, 2018, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, topic of the symposium: "My friend must be a heater!" - Friendship, loneliness and social vulnerability WBS symposium at the
• Second family meeting of the WBS regional group Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony / symposium on Williams-Beuren syndrome on May 10 and 11, 2019, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, topic of the symposium: "My friend must be a heater!" - Friendship, loneliness and social vulnerability WBS symposium at the

• Prosetzky, Ingolf: Lecture Current pedagogical and everyday-relevant findings on WBS on 21.04.2018, WBS symposium, Görlitz.
• Prosetzky, Ingolf: Lecture The category 'friendship' in cultural-historical theory - suggestions for/through research into the Williams-Beuren syndrome?! on 31.03.2019, Luria Society, Bremen.
• Prosetzky, Ingolf: Lecture Friendship and loneliness - For a better understanding of social behavior under conditions of Williams-Beuren syndrome on 11.05.2019, WBS-Fachtagung, Görlitz.
• Prosetzky, Ingolf: Lecture On the way to a more well-rounded understanding of the whole person with Williams syndrome - Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria's cultural-historical neuropsychology approach on 01.10.2019, Michigan State University
• Prosetzky, Ingolf: Lecture The challenges of teaching individuals with rare neurodevelopmental disorders in inclusive school setting - The case of Williams syndrome and how we can learn from each other on 09.12.2019, Masaryk University Brno
• Prosetzky, Ingolf: Lecture Towards a tailored support for Williams syndrome. Learning from individual everyday life experience. A holistic multiperspective mixed methods study on 17.12.2019, Seattle Club Conference, University College London

• Prosetzky, I., Danielsmeier, V. (2018): Buildung a Competence Center for Wiliams Syndrome at the Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz - Current Research, Teaching and Third Mission. ACC Journal, Vol. 24, Issue 3, DOI: 10.15240/tul/004/2018-3-010
• Prosetzky, I.  (2018): Selected impulses for concrete pedagogical support of persons with WBS. Report from the International Meeting on Williams-Beuren Syndrome "Building our Future" in Madrid/Spain. In: Wir üBer unS/Umschau. Journal of the Federal Association of WBS. Issue 46, 34-35.
• Prosetzky, I.  (2019): "Friendship, loneliness and social vulnerability" - WBS symposium at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. In: Wir üBer unS/Umschau. Journal of the Federal Association WBS. Issue 47, 72-76.
• Prosetzky, Ingolf (2019): Report from the visit to the WSA National Convention 2018 in the USA. In: Wir üBer unS/Umschau. Journal of the Federal Association WBS. Issue 47, 54-57.
• Prosetzky, Ingolf (2019): The category 'friendship' in cultural-historical theory - suggestions for/by researching the Williams-Beuren syndrome?! In: Yearbook of the Luria Society 2019, 61-91, ISBN: 978-3-96543-081-5
• Siegert, Ariane; Prosetzky, Ingolf (2019): EAMHID Congress on strengthening community collaboration between researchers, professionals, people with intellectual disabilities and their families. In: We about you/Umschau. Journal of the Federal Association of WBS. Issue 47, 40-43.