SHS 2014 Workshop

Dr Kathy Y.S. LEE is currently an Associate Professor and Chief at the Division of Speech Therapy, the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is an experienced Speech-Language Pathologist who has participated extensively in designing the assessment and habilitation programs of various client groups since 1995. While her expertize lies on development and validation of standardized assessment tools, she also has great interests in employing Dynamic Assessment tools in her clinical practice.
Professor Lee has completed the training on Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD) (Level 1), the Instrumental Enrichment - Basic (Level 1) and the Instrumental Enrichment – Tactile/Kinesthetic under the Feurestein Institute. She begins to apply the instruments learnt on clients with various communication disorders including hearing impairment, ADHD, ASD and learning disabilities since 2011. Learners find the materials intrinsically rewarding and are motivated for continuous self-improvement. Coupled with appropriate mediation along the exploration processes, treatment effects are remarkable in general.


Workshop: A Taste of Dynamic Assessment and Cognitive Intervention: the Missing Link to Successful Therapy to All Communication Disorders Professor Kathy LEE Yuet Sheung & Ms Rita WONG Wai Ming The Chinese University of Hong Kong


Learning is an everyday challenge for everyone. Why some people are smarter and learn more effectively than the others? As a helping profession, how can we help various clients ranging from children, adults to the elderlies to learn effectively and hence make them succeed in their daily life? Cognitive processing is a crucial element of learning which could be expressed as the interaction among different cognitive functions. We rely on the cognitive functions to receive, process and express information. In the clinical sharing session, the framework by Professor Reuven Feuerstein, a renowned Israel Educational Psychologist, will be introduced. According to Professor Feuerstein, every individual has strong and weak cognitive functions. To find out one’s strengths and weaknesses, he advocated to use Dynamic Assessment where the essence is to examine the process, not the end product. His theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability also states that every individual could be modified regardless of different culture, family background, disease and education level etc. Our thinking process could be modified by appropriate learning strategy known as Mediated Learning Experience (MLE). During the workshop, tools of Dynamic Assessment to ‘diagnose’ strengths and weaknesses of clients will be introduced. Experience on using different materials for improving the cognitive processing of different population will be shared. Dynamic assessment and cognitive intervention has the potential to benefit a wide spectrum of learners with communication disorders ranging from • ADD/ ADHD/ ASD • Cognitive impairment associated with Down Syndrome • Learning difficulties • Unmotivated learners • Gifted people • Geriatrics • Communication impairment caused by CVA • Dementia • TBI with cognitive communication impairment • Visual impairment

			Dr Kathy Y.S. LEE is currently an Associate Professor and Chief at the Division of Speech Therapy, the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is an experienced Speech-Language Pathologist who has participated extensively in designing the assessment and habilitation programs of various client groups since 1995. While her expertize lies on development and validation of standardized assessment tools, she also has great interests in employing Dynamic Assessment tools in her clinical practice. Professor Lee has completed the training on Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD) (Level 1), the Instrumental Enrichment - Basic (Level 1) and the Instrumental Enrichment – Tactile/Kinesthetic under the Feurestein Institute. She begins to apply the instruments learnt on clients with various communication disorders including hearing impairment, ADHD, ASD and learning disabilities since 2011. Learners find the materials intrinsically rewarding and are motivated for continuous self-improvement. Coupled with appropriate mediation along the exploration processes, treatment effects are remarkable in general.

			Ms. Wong Wai Ming, Rita is currently a speech therapist at the Division of Speech Therapy, the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is an experienced Speech-Language Pathologist who has over 13 years of clinical experience in treating children, adults and elderly patients with communication disorders. She also has enormous interest in employing the Dynamic Assessment tools in her clinical practice. Ms.Wong has completed training on Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD) (Level 1 & 2), Learning Potential Assessment Device – Basic (LPAD-Basic) and the Instrumental Enrichment – Tactile/Kinesthetic under the Feurestein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel. Ms Wong is among the few certified LPAD Assessors (Level 2 and Basic) of the Feuerstein Institute in Hong Kong. She employs cognitive intervention extensively in her daily clinical work and is the pioneer in promoting the approach in a knowledge transfer project on elderlies with dementia.