Communication Sciences Team
Professor LAW Thomas Ka Tung
Associate Professor
Chief, Division of Speech Therapy
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Associate Director
The Institute of Human Communicative Research
Professor Law is a speech-language pathologist registered in Hong Kong and Australia. He specialises in voice disorders, fluency disorders, and multilingual acquisition and its disorders. He is currently the Chief of Division of Speech Therapy. Thomas’ research includes intervention outcomes and epidemiology in both stuttering and voice disorders, linguistic factors affecting stuttering, issues regarding perceptual evaluation of voice and clinical education in speech-language pathology.
Academic and Professional Qualifications
- PhD (Health Sciences), USyd
- MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CUHK
- BAppSc (SpPath), USyd
- Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP, Speech Pathology Australia)
- Speech Therapist in Accredited Register (Department of Health, Hong Kong)
RESEARCH AREA
- Voice disorders and laryngology
- Stuttering and fluency disorders
- Clinical education
SPECIALISATION
- Voice disorders
- Fluency disorders (stuttering)
EDITORSHIP
- Associate Editor, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Voice
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Fluency Disorders
ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT
- Programme Director of Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Graduate and Assessment Panel, Graduate Division of Otorhinolaryngology and Communication Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
HONORARY APPOINTMENT
- Honorary Speech Therapist, NTEC, Hospital Authority
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Trainer, Lidcombe Program Trainers Consortium
- Chair of the Fluency Committee of The International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP)
- Committee Member of the Registration Committee, The Hong Kong Institute of Speech Therapists (HKIST)
- Professional Council Member, The Hong Kong Institute of Clinical Psychologists (HKICP)
- Advisory Board Member, The Voice Foundation
