Communication Sciences Team

Professor LAW Thomas Ka Tung

Assistant Professor

Chief, Division of Speech Therapy

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

Assistant 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)
  • Registered Speech Therapist (Register of Speech Therapists accredited by Department of Health, Hong Kong)

RESEARCH AREA

  • Voice disorders and laryngology
  • Stuttering and fluency disorders
  • Clinical education

SPECIALISATION

  • Voice disorders and stuttering (Lidcombe Program)

ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT

  • Programme Leader of Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

HONORARY APPOINTMENT

  • Honorary Speech Therapist, NTEC, Hospital Authority

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • Accreditor of University Programs, Speech Pathology Australia (SPA)
  • Trainer, Lidcombe Program Trainers Consortium
  • Committee Member 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)