About

I am an Associate Professor and a founding member at the Speech Therapy Unit, a member of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University – Peking University Research Centre on Chinese Linguistics, and a member of the Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. My training includes Speech Therapy (BSc, University of Hong Kong), Linguistics (MPhil, Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Psycholinguistics (PhD, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany). My interests include cognitive linguistic, typological-functional and processing approaches to the study of language acquisition and disorders, clinical linguistics, developing language assessment and intervention approaches for children in a Chinese and multilingual context, promoting child language research on Chinese languages, and the use of technology (e.g. AI and robotics) to enhance support for children with communication disorders and for speech therapists. I am collaborating with researchers from the European biSLI community and the Global TALES consortium to study multilingual children in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Pakistan, and India, and my team members have adapted some language assessment tools from the COST Action LITMUS (Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings) initiative and the Global TALES consortium into Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Kam and Urdu.