Academic Staff
Dr Cymie Wing-yee NG
Assistant Professor of Practice
- EF745
- +852 2766 4574
- cymie.ng@polyu.edu.hk
Biography
Dr. Cymie Ng is currently an Assistant Professor of Practice of the Speech Therapy Unit in the Department of Language Science and Technology of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences degree from the University of Hong Kong and qualified as a speech therapist. She later received her Master of Medical Sciences degree from the University of Hong Kong and her PhD in Surgery from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Cymie has been developing her professional career and working in various local centres, schools and hospitals. She has broad experiences in serving children, adolescents, adults and elderlies with various communication and swallowing disorders. Her clinical expertise includes childhood speech sound disorders, autistic spectrum disorders as well as other communication and swallowing disorders associated with medical pathologies.
Cymie has a major focus of research in speech sound disorders and clinical applications of speech recognition in speech therapy. She had presented in international scientific conferences and published clinical materials. She has strong passion in contributing to the speech therapy profession. She has served as clinical educator for various local speech therapy programmes. She has always been actively supporting the training of rehabilitation practitioners in mainland China and had participated in numerous charitable missions to serve the underprivileged in China
Education and Academic Qualifications
- 2021
PhD in The Chinese University of Hong Kong - 2010
MMedSc in The University of Hong Kong - 2005
BSc in The University of Hong Kong
Academic and Professional Experience
- 2020 - Present
Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Language Science and Technology, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - 2022 - Present
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - 2008 - 2018
Clinical Supervisor, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong - 2013 - 2015
Lecturer, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Teaching Areas
- Speech Sound Disorder
- Language Disorder
- Theories of Learning and Motivation
Research Interests
Selected Publication
- Ng, C.W.Y. (2025) “掌握發音：從咿咿呀呀到準確發音” and “口齒不清怎麼辦？” in Ng, H.Y. (Ed) 2025 “淺談全方位兒童語言發展”. Ch.3 & Ch. 8. PolyU Press.
- Ng, S. I., Ng, C. W. Y., Wang, J., & Lee, T. (2024). Automatic Detection of Speech Sound Disorder in Cantonese-Speaking Pre-School Children. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 32, 4355-4368. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2024.3463503
- Ng, S. I., Ng, C. W. Y., & Lee, T. (2023). A Study on Using Duration and Formant Features in Automatic Detection of Speech Sound Disorder in Children. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2023, 4643-4647. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-937
- Ng, S. I., Ng, C. W. Y., Wang, J., & Lee, T. (2022). Automatic Detection of Speech Sound Disorder in Child Speech Using Posterior-based Speaker Representations. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2022, 2853-2857. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-935
- Ng, S. I., Ng, C. W. Y., Li, J., & Lee, T. (2021). Detection of Consonant Errors in Disordered Speech Based on Consonant-vowel Segment Embedding. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2021, 2931-2935. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1305
- Ng, S. I.*, Ng, C. W. Y.*, Wang, J., Lee, T., Lee, K. Y.-S., & Tong, C. F. M. (2020). CUCHILD: A Large-Scale Cantonese Corpus of Child Speech for Phonology and Articulation Assessment. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2020, 424-428. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2148 [*Equal contributions]
- Wang, J., Ng, S. I., Tao, D., Ng, W. Y., & Lee, T. (2019). A Study on Acoustic Modeling for Child Speech Based on Multi-Task Learning. In Proceedings of the 2018 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), 389-393. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCSLP.2018.8706703
- 2025 - 2027
P.I. of project titled “Competency of applying innovative and technological tools in assessment and diagnosing motor speech disorders” funded by Faculty Reserve for L&T Projects/ FH Student-related Activities from the Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Funding amount HKD$150,000. - 2021 - 2023
P.I. of project titled “Promoting database competency through the delivery of a corpus-driven reading training programme”funded by Departmental Learning & Teaching Grant from the Department of Chinese & Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Funding amount HKD$99,107.5 - 2017 - 2020
P.I. of project titled “Speech Analysis for Cantonese Speaking Children” funded by Departmental fund from Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Funding amount HKD$500,000
- 2026 - 2028
Co.I. of project titled “Advancing the identification of Developmental Language Disorder in Mandarin-Cantonese bilingual children: a reference standard and novel assessment measures” funded by General Research Fund 2024. Ref. no.: 15615525. Funding amount HKD$1,423,201. - 2024 - 2027
Co.I. of project titled “Multimodal digital speech analysis for detection of depressive symptomatology in youth” funded by Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF), Health Bureau 2024. Ref. no.: 21220821. Funding amount HKD$1,388,728. - 2023 - 2028
Co.I. of project titled “Applying automatic speech recognition technology in screening children with speech sound disorder” funded by ITF-FBL 2023. Ref. no.: FBL/019/23. Funding amount HK$3,259,203. - 2021 - 2023
Co.I. of project titled “Technological competency development for clinical education in speech therapy: Exploration in the intervention of acquired motor speech disorders” funded by Dean’s Reserve for L&T projects from the Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. Funding amount HKD$149,760
- 2023 - Present
External Accreditation Specialist of Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications
- 2020 - Present
Honorary Professional Member of The Institute of Human Communicative Research, CUHK - 2005 - Present
Full member, The Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists - Present
Speech Therapist in Accredited Register, Department of Health, Hong Kong Government
- 2018
Information Technology First Prize and Innovation Special Award. The Challenge-cup Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition - 2018
Golden Prize, Innovation & Technology Project Competition Award 2018 by the HK Electronic Industries Association - 2017
Best Oral Presentation, Asia-Pacific Conference on Speech, Language & Hearing
