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Programme Leader of Master of Speech Therapy (MST)

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

Selected Funded Research Projects

  • 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)

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