Date: 01/01/2006 – 31/07/2014 In August 2006, the Centre received a major donation from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust to run a research program experimentating on a form of education that potentially benefits both deaf and hearing students linguistically and…
Date: 01/01/2001 – 01/01/2005 General summary This 4-year project investigates the development of Hong Kong Sign Language by a deaf child in Hong Kong. The research team collected data from a deaf child weekly from the time the child began to learn…
Date: 01/01/2003 – 01/01/2005 General summary: “Promotion of Deaf communication through Hong Kong Sign Language” is a Deaf awareness project conducted jointly with a local deaf school and the audiological services section of the Hong Kong Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB). Aims:…
Date: 01/01/1996 – 01/01/2001 General summary This project aims to establish a long-term, comprehensive, interdisciplinary research and training programme related to sign languages and deaf studies in the Asia-Pacific region for both deaf and hearing researchers. Aims Activities This programme envisions a…
Date: 01/01/1999 – 01/01/2000 Aims: The aim of this project is to discover the developmental stages deaf children go through in acquiring the grammatical properties of classifiers in Hong Kong sign language. Activities: We studied the classifier construction by presenting six comic strips with…
Date: 01/01/1999 – 01/01/2000 General summary This research project looked into the complex grammatical properties of the classifier system in Hong Kong Sign Language. Aims Activities Significance Project team Professor Gladys TangMs Felix SzeMs Scholastica LamMr Kenny ChuMs Brenda YuOutput
Date: 01/01/1993 – 01/01/1996 General summary: This project is a series of collaborative studies led by Professors James Woodward and Gladys Tang which investigate sign language varieties in Hong Kong. Aims: Activities: Weekly meetings with deaf adults were conducted to collect HKSL data…