Dr Johannes Fellinger

Biography:

Johannes Fellinger, M.D, P.D., is Head of the Institute of Neurology of Language and Senses

at the Hospital of St. John of God in Linz and Head of the Research Institute for Developmental Medicine, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.

After finishing his medical degree, he specialised in Neurology, Psychiatry and Neuropaediatrics. During his residency, he noticed a lack of medical services available for Deaf people and started an outpatient clinic for the Deaf. Over the next years, Dr. Fellinger

founded the Institute of Neurology of Language and Senses. It grew into a multidisciplinary

Institute, including a neurological and linguistic clinic, a paedoaudiological centre with an

early intervention program for deaf and hard of hearing children, a centre for autism spectrum disorder for children, adolescents and adults and an outpatient clinic for inclusive medicine.

Additionally to his clinical work, Dr. Fellinger is involved in research, particularly in the field of developmental medicine, with a focus on Deafness, mental health, Quality of Life and autism spectrum disorder.

Dr. Fellinger teaches developmental medicine and associated fields at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz as well as at the Medical University Vienna at the Institute of Public Health.

Since 2009, Dr. Fellinger has been involved in the WFD (World Federation of the Deaf) as an

expert on mental health and as of 2016 he is part of the Expert Group on Human Rights.

Dr. Fellinger has been the key initiator and developer of therapeutic living communities for adults who are deaf and have multiple disabilities in Austria.