Awardee of 2020/21 RGC Research Fellow Scheme Academic Unit of Human Communication, Development, and Information Sciences, Faculty of Education
Dr. Shelley Xiuli TONG
Academic Unit of Human Communication, Development, and Information Sciences, Faculty of Education
The University of Hong Kong
Biography
- Revolutionize deficit-based understanding of children with dyslexia and provides novel insights into strength-based diagnoses and intervention approaches
- Four original theoretical models and various journal publications address urgent educational and clinical issues regarding children with dyslexia and/or autism, and reflect her life-long commitment to transform scientific evidence into public policy and practice for empowering millions of children with special educational needs
- RFS project — to revamp current deficit-based reading remediation programs by developing an Integrated Dyslexic Interface Design (I-DID) that underscores and capitalizes on the individual strengths of children with developmental dyslexia
- Awards and Honours:
- RGC Research Fellow (2020)
- J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship (2019)
Project Title
- Understanding Strengths and Deficits in Chinese Developmental Dyslexia: Toward an Integrated Strength-Deficit-Based Intelligent Diagnosis and Intervention System
