Academic Staff
- HHB731D, Hung Hom Bay Campus
- +852 2766 6362
- dustin.lau@polyu.edu.hk
- Personal Website
學歷
- Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong
Teaching Areas
- Speech Therapy
- Communication Disorders
- Language Intervention
- Development and Disorders in Reading and Writing
- Lau, D. K.-Y., Tang, T. P.-Y., Wong, C. C.-Y., Yau, T. S.-K., & Lam, I. H.-C. (2023). Systematic language input improved productions of elaborated verb phrases of Cantonese-speaking children with language difficulties. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 37(4-6), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2022.2157330
- Lau, D. K.-Y. (2023). Chinese spelling – Evidence from pen tablets. Routledge International Handbook of Visual-motor skills, Handwriting, and Spelling, 429-445. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003284048-38
- Su, I.-F., Yum, Y. N., & Lau, D. K.-Y. (2023). Hong Kong Chinese character psycholinguistic norms: ratings of 4376 single Chinese characters on semantic radical transparency, age‐of‐acquisition, familiarity, imageability, and concreteness. Behavior Research Methods, 55(6), 2989–3008. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01928-y
- Lau, D. K. Y. (2020). Validation of constituent logographemes and radicals in Chinese characters using handwriting data. Behavior Research Methods, 52(1), 305-316. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01227-z
- Lau, D. K.-Y. (2021). The Dual-route Account of Writing-to-Dictation in Chinese: A Short Report. Language and Speech, 64(4), 790-803. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830920967696
- Lau, D. K. Y., & Ma, K. H. W. (2018). A phonetic radical account of the phonology-to-Orthography consistency effect on writing Chinese characters: Evidence from a Chinese Dysgraphic patient. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35(8), 403-414. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2018.1510387
- 2024 - 2026
Principal Investigator, Promoting the Chinese writing abilities among non-Chinese speaking children in Hong Kong – A comparison between Virtual Reality and digital Graffiti. Standing Committee on Language Education and Research Fund - 2022 - 2024
Principal Investigator, Modelling Chinese Writing-to-Dictation: A Big Data Study. RGC - 2019 - 2021
Principal Investigator, To Promote Hong Kong’s Speech Therapy Services in Greater Bay Area. Professional Services Advancement Support Scheme
- 2025 - 2028
Co-Principal Investigator, Integrating Machine Learning, Behavioral Analysis and Multimodal Neuroimaging Techniques to Investigate the Comorbidity of Specific Learning Disabilities in Hong Kong. RGC CRF (Project No. C5033-24G)