Denise Siemons-Lühring is a research associate and PhD student at the Department of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, University Hospital Münster, Germany. She has been a Speech-Language Pathologist since 1983 and graduated with a Master of Science in 2008 at Utrecht University, Netherlands. From 2013 to 2015, she taught treatment methods for speech and language disorders in children as an academic lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Health in Bochum, Germany. In addition, she has published internationally in the areas of optimizing children's learning in speech-language therapy and in the area of spasmodic dysphonia. Since 2010, she has been working on a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness (published 2021) and long-term outcome (presented) of the treatment “PhonoSens", an integrated treatment method for childhood pDSSD, that has been developed by her since 1983. Denise Siemons-Lühring has also presented her scientific results at international and national conferences and has been a speaker at the annual scientific conference of the German Society for Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology. (DGPP). She is furthermore a member of the Society for Interdisciplinary Research on Language Acquisition and Infantile Speech Disorders in German-speaking countries (GISKID e.V.). She currently coordinates studies to investigate the effectiveness of different speech therapy settings, like video therapy, for children with developmental language disorders (DLD).