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Dr. Li-Rong Lilly Cheng
Managing director, the Confucius Institute at SDSU
Professor speech, language & hearing sciences
Keynote Address:
Global Competence: Clinical Implications for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists.
Dr. Li-Rong Lilly Cheng served as Professor in the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Executive Director of Chinese Studies Institute at San Diego State University. Professor Cheng served as a member of the board of trustees of the Campanile Foundation of San Diego State University. She is the past chair of the Multicultural Issues Board for the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) and the chair of Education Committee for the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP).

Professor Cheng served as Assistant Dean of the College of Health and Human Services and was the past President of the Phi Beta Delta Chapter at SDSU. She has received many awards from San Diego State University and professional organizations. She was selected as the outstanding alumnus of Michigan State University. She is also a Fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA). Dr. Cheng is the recipient of the 1997 ASHA Award for special contributions to Multicultural Affairs and the recipient of the 2002 Diversity Award from the California Speech & Hearing Association. She is on the editorial board of several major professional journals. She has numerous professional publications and has lectured all over the world. In 2007, she received the best article award from Association of Exceptional Children. She has taught Chinese to individuals across the life span in a multitude of settings. In 2010, she received the Humanitarian Award from the Asian Heritage Foundation. She served as consultant for the Sesame Street and Tiffany and Company.
Dr. Helen Grech
Keynote Address:
Multilingual Speech and Language Development and Disorders
Dr Grech is the Head of the Department of Communication Therapy and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Malta. She lectures mainly in areas related to speech/language pathology and audiology. Dr Grech is also a practicing educational audiologist and speech-language pathologist. She has been invited as visiting lecturer by various Higher Education Institutions including Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium; Fontys Hogeschool. Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Göteborg University, Sweden; Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden; Institut Libre Marie Haps, Brussels, Belgium; KHBO, Brugge, Belgium; Lessius Hogeschool, Antwerp, Belgium; University of Oulu, Finland; and the University of Catania, Sicily.

Dr Grech has been recruited by the EC on several occasions as an expert Evaluator for the FP7 and FP6 programmes of European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities. She also worked for the European Union Programmes Unit, Malta, as an evaluator of proposals submitted under the Grundtvic and Erasmus programmes. She represents Malta on the Cost Domain for Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health (ISCH). She is President Elect of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP).

Dr Grech was awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellowship at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where she standardised a speech and language assessment for early identification of Maltese children with communication difficulties. She was also awarded an Individual Mobility Grant under Tempus Programme and co-ordinated a 4-year Marie Curie FP6 project. She is currently involved in a LLL Tuning project and Cost Action IS0804. She has several publications in international and local scientific journals and has contributed several chapters in books. Helen Grech serves on the editorial Board of peer reviewed journals and is a member of several international, British and local learned societies.
Prof. Tanya M. Gallagher
Keynote Address:
Social/Pragmatic Language Intervention with Young Children
Professor Tanya M. Gallagher is the Dean of the College of Applied Health Sciences (1999 – Present), Director of the Disability Research Institute, and a Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She obtained her bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in speech-language pathology from Illinois and has served on the faculties of the University of Michigan Medical School and the McGill University Faculty of Medicine where she was appointed as the Associate Dean. Dr. Gallagher has held several leadership positions including serving as the President of the American Speech-Language- Hearing Foundation, as an advisor to the National Center for Treatment Effectiveness Research in Communication Disorders, and she is currently the President of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics and a Delegate to the World Health Organization (WHO). While at Illinois she has led the six college Health and Wellness Research Initiative, secured external funding to develop the Disability Research Institute, established the Center on Health, Aging and Disability and has served on major university committees including most recently the Stewarding Excellence Steering Committee, and the Administrative Review and Re-Structuring Committee. Dr. Gallagher has published extensively and is an internationally recognized scholar in communication disorders and treatment outcomes. She has obtained over $31 M in external research funding and has received numerous awards including the highest level of recognition in speech-language pathology, the Honors of the Association of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
PhD Bruce Murdoch, DSc
Keynote Address:
The Future Role of Brain Stimulation Techniques in the Rehabilitation of Aphasia and Motor Speech Disorders
Bruce Murdoch is recognized internationally for his research on neurologically acquired speech and language disorders in children and adults. He has published 13 books in this field, over 390 peer-reviewed articles in high quality international journals, 70 invited book chapters and over 350 paper presentations at major international conferences. His H index is 27 and according to Google Scholar has 3450 citations currently averaging over 350 per year. He is recognized as having pioneered the use of physiological instrumentation in the assessment and treatment of brain-based speech and language disorders associated with both acute and degenerative neurological disorders including stroke, traumatic brain injury, brain tumours, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Further he has made a seminal contribution to the delineation of the role of subcortical brain structures in speech motor control and language processing and the effects of treatment for childhood cancer on language development. Recently a primary focus for his research has involved the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of dysarthria in Parkinson’s disease and the rehabilitation of aphasia post-stroke (6 publications in the past 3 years). Bruce Murdoch is a member of the editorial board of 10 international refereed journals and an editorial consultant to 25 other international journals. He is an expert consultant to the National Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Stroke in Childhood, Royal College of Physicians, London and to the American Academy of Neurological Communication Disorders and Sciences. To date, he has supervised to successful completion 45 PhD students in the field of acquired neurological speech/language disorders.
Kevin YUEN
PhD, MSc (Audiology), BSc (Speech & Hearing Sc)
Assistant Professor/ Associate Head
Department of Special Education and Counselling
The Hong Kong Institute of Education
Keynote Address:
The Development of a Lexical Tone Dichotic Listening Test - a Step towards Identifying Individuals with Auditory Processing Disorders
Dr. Kevin YUEN is an Assistant Professor and Associate Head at the Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Hong Kong Institute of Education. Dr. Yuen is a qualified audiologist and a speech-language therapist. He received his undergraduate degree in speech and hearing sciences and master’s degree in audiology from the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. He received his doctor of philosophy degree from the Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Yuen has a strong research interest in sound perception and speech recognition of normal hearing and hearing-impaired children in both quiet and noise environments. He investigated the contribution of frequency-specific temporal envelope and periodicity components (without any fine structure components) for lexical tone recognition in normal hearing and hearing-impaired listeners. Dr. Yuen developed the Cantonese Lexical Neighborhood Test, the Computerized Cantonese Disyllabic-word Lexical Tone Identification Test in Noise, and the Computerized Mandarin Pediatric Lexical tone & Disyllabic-word Picture identification test in Noise to serve the Cantonese- and Mandarin- speaking populations in Hong Kong and Mainland China. One of his key future research areas is to identify and remediate young individuals in the Chinese communities with Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) and to investigate the impact of APD on speech and language development, learning, and academic performance.
Prof Benjamin Tsou
Keynote Address:
The diagnostic and therapeutic values of quadrasyllabic idiomatic expressions [QIE's] in Chinese: a preliminary study
Benjamin Tsou obtained his MA in Linguistics from Harvard University and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at the University of California, San Diego, the University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong and is now the Chiang Chen Chair Professor of Language Sciences and Director, Research Centre on Linguistics and Language Information Sciences of the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

In 1995, he launched a unique and on-going project to track and analyze the Pan-Chinese characteristics and evolving use of the Chinese language involving the sophisticated processing of more than 400 million Chinese characters thus far. This LIVAC project and related research efforts have impacted on different research areas including contributions to the production of the Cantonese Oral Language Assessment Scale (COLAS) – the first standardized oral test on spoken Cantonese (age 5-12) in use in Hong Kong since 2006, and to the comparative study on the lexical skills of secondary students in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei. Other contributions have included authoritative lexicographical works published by Commercial Press (Beijing), Fudan University Press and Oxford University press, and sociolinguistics.

Professor Tsou has many publications, including a number of books and monographs, and over 100 academic papers including the 1979 paper on Some Preliminary Observations on Aphasia in a Chinese-English Bilingual (Acta Psychologica Taiwanica). Among these is the Language Atlas of China for which he was also a general editor and contributor which was awarded a Class I prize for research by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1998.

His various awards and honours include: Academician, Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, Belgium; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Linguists, UK; Bronze Bauhinia Star, HKSAR, Tan Lark Sye Visiting Professorship at Nanyang Technological University. He also held Visiting Professorship and honorary research positions at: University of British Columbia; University of California, Berkeley; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Australian National University; Fudan University; Chulalorngkorn University, and Peking University.
KKenneth Watkin
Director,
Center on Health, Aging and Disability
College of Applied Health Sciences
1206 So Fourth St MC- 586
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
URL: http://chad.illinois.edu
Keynote Address:
Recent Advances in Dysphagia Diagnosis and Treatment; Pervasive Health Monitoring for Brain Injury
B.A., Liberal Arts, University of Puget Sound, Summa Cum Laude, 1966.
M.A.,University of Washington, 1969.
Ph.D.,University of Washington, 1971.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Medical Physics and Engineering, Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin, 1971-1972.
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