INVITED SPEAKERS

Kathy Yuet Sheung Lee
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Webpage: http://www.ihcr.cuhk.edu.hk/eng/relatedSites/ent/privateSpeech.htm

"The oral language development of deaf children in a sign bilingualism and co-enrollment program"

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. She has developed a number of validated tests including the Cantonese Receptive Vocabulary Test (CRVT), the Cantonese Basic Speech Perception Test (CBSPT) and the Cantonese Tone Identification Test (CANTIT). Her main research areas lie in pediatric speech and language development, Cantonese tone perception and production, test standardization and validation.

Takashi Torigoe
(Hyogo University of Teacher Education)
Webpage: http://www.edu.hyogo-u.ac.jp/torigoe/index_e.htm

"What are the 'Co-enrollment' practices?: A comparison"

Takashi Torigoe is a professor in the Department of Special Needs Education at Hyogo University of Teacher Education, where he has being working since 1996, shortly after he obtained his Ph.D in Psychology from Hiroshima University (1994). Before that, he served as an instructor for Sign Language Interpreter Training Program at National Rehabilitation Center for the Disabled (1990-1996). Throughout 1999 to 2013, he has worked in a number of European universities, including Stockholm University, the University of Oslo, and University of Jyvaskyla, as visiting researcher or visiting professor. His research fields involve psychology and education for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children, sign language studies, developmental psychology, and language acquisition. For each of the research fields, he has presented lots of products, internationally or nationally, in various forms, including journal papers, book chapters and conference presentations.

Min-Hua Hsing
(National University of Tainan)
Webpage: http://www2.nutn.edu.tw/gac640/web-SE/Chinese/teacher-4.htm

"Recent changes of deaf education policies and practices in Taiwan: the road to sign bilingualism"

Min-Hua Hsing is a professor of National University of Tainan. She graduated from National ChenChi University (majored in Chinese Literature) in Taiwan. She went to USA to study generic special education and got her first master degree (M.Ed.) at Hardin-Simmons University in Abiline, Tx. USA. She then went back to Taiwan and was a teacher for middle-school deaf students at Taipei Municipal School for the Deaf for 10 years.  During this period, she also got her second master degree in education at graduate school for special education from National Taiwan Normal University.  She continued pursuing her doctoral degree at University of Washington in Seattle and got her Ed.D degree in 1994. She then went to National University of Tainan (former name: National Tainan Teachers College) and served as an associate professor and then professor at the Department of Special Education.  Her research interests include deaf education, sign langue teaching, sign/bilingual model, and deaf studies.  Currently she is following Hong Kong's model and is executing a small sign bilingual inclusion experiment at the kindergarten level in Tainan, Taiwan.