Members
Director
Prof. CHUNG, Kevin Kien Hoa
Kevin is a Chair Professor of Child Development and Special Education and Director of the Centre for Child and Family Science at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). His research and teaching focus on developmental dyslexia and learning disabilities, literacy acquisition, assessment and instruction, cognitive and social-emotional development, and inclusive education. Kevin has published widely in the areas of dyslexia, reading and writing, child development, educational psychology, psycholinguistics, and cognitive neuroscience of language.
He is elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), Fellow of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, a Voting Member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, and an elected Vice President and Board Member of Association for Reading and Writing in Asia. He won 6 General Research Fund grants, 3 Quality Education Fund, 1 Standing Committee on Language Education and Research, 2 Simon K.Y. Lee Foundation, and 3 Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. Kevin also received the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research (Research Excellent Award) from EdUHK and the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Knowledge Transfer (Team Award).
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr CHAN, Kevin
Kevin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Child and Family Science. He completed his Ph.D. in education in the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong. His research interests focus on the areas of visual perception in reading, developmental dyslexia, and bilingualism. He is currently working on the JC project RISE, language development of children with developmental language disorder, and second-language learning of college students.
Selected work:
Chan, K., & Chung, K. K. H. (2022, February). What are the cognitive subtypes of dyslexia in Chinese adolescents? Poster presented at the 2022 annual conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia, Hong Kong.
Dr IP, Isaac Nam
Isaac is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Child and Family Science. He earned his Ph.D. at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.