The Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists

On Sunday 22nd May I presented a workshop to approximately 80 speech therapists for The Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists. The workshop was titled: Working with children with speech sound disorders: International perspectives of speech acquisition, assessment and intervention  and we covered the following topics, that considered children of Hong Kong in the context of the world

1. The world’s speech sounds
2. Speech acquisition
3. Assessment
4. Evidence-based intervention
5. Prevalence, risk, and impact of childhood speech and language impairment

Dr Carol To contributed to the presentation by speaking about sound change in Hong Kong Cantonese. In her presentation she described some of the research we have undertaken (currently under review in different journals):

1. To, C. K. S., Cheung, P. S. P., & McLeod, S. (2010). Sound change in Hong Kong Cantonese: Implications for speech sound assessment.
2. To, C. K. -S., Cheung, P. S. -P., & McLeod, S. (2011). Typical speech sound acquisition of Hong Kong Cantonese.

After the workshop I received a number of enthusiastic emails from the participants. Here is one of them: "Thank you very much indeed for your lecture yesterday- I really really enjoyed it. The empirical coverage of your work both within a language and across languages is awesome, and your dedication and enthusiasm to not only "data" but "the well-being of children" is highly respectful!"