Congratulations to the three student representatives, Zandra Mok, Kayley Wong and Elva Chung from the Master of Science in Educational Speech-Language Pathology and Learning Disabilities (MScESLPLD) programme, who won the Best Poster Presentation Award out of the 21 participating universities from Europe, Americas and Asia, in the Speech Language Therapy Summer School - Edition 2017. It was the third time students from MScESLPLD won the same award, which was the one and only one award in the summer school, in the past four years of participation, after the one at University of Malta in 2014, and the one at RWTH Aachen University in Germany in 2015.
Speech Language Therapy Summer School - Edition 2017 was held at Università Di Padova in Italy from 20 to 27 August, 2017. The summer school provided a series of intensive and high quality post-graduate and undergraduate pre-qualification courses for speech language therapy. This year, 44 academic staff members and 104 speech therapy students from 21 universities all over the world in the summer school, including Ms. Polly Lau, Dr. Lorinda Kwan-Chen and Dr. Kevin Yuen from SEC and the three MScESLPLD students, participated in the summer school. The three student representatives were selected based on the best GPA scores obtained in the 1st Semester in their first year of studies. Scholarships were granted to them from the Department to partly support the expenses of the trip.
In the summer school, Ms. Polly Lau, Dr. Lorinda Kwan-Chen and Dr. Kevin Yuen conduced four sessions of lectures and workshops as follows:
Ms. Polly Lau:
General Framework: Evidence Based Practice
Break-out sessions – Student experience in mixed groups (Pressure Cooker)
Dr. Lorinda Kwan-Chen:
Emotional dysprosody – a new perspective to assess and intervene motor speech disorders
Dr. Kevin Yuen:
How to assess the best level of auditory processing skills in children and adolescent with comorbid auditory processing disorder and developmental disabilities affecting learning, communication and language
