Speaker
Professor Kathy Lee
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor Kathy Lee is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also the Director of the Laboratory for Linguistics, Communication Disorders and Biomedical Sciences at the Shenzhen Research Institute.
In addition to supervising master’s and doctoral students, Professor Lee launched the Master’s program in Speech-Language Pathology in 2018. This program has become one of the most popular courses in the medicine faculty, receiving over 300 applications in each batch.
Professor Lee is an experienced Speech-Language Pathologist who has spearheaded the development of validated tests, including: The Cantonese Receptive Vocabulary Test (CRVT), The Cantonese Basic Speech Perception Test (CBSPT), The Cantonese Tone Identification Test (CANTIT), The Cantonese Spoken Word Recognition Test (CanSWORT), the Hong Kong Cantonese Language Assessment Scale for Preschool Children (HKCLASS-P) and the Receptive Vocabulary Computerized Adaptive Test (RevCAT). The assessment tools have been widely adopted in the academic and professional fields.
In 2018, Professor Lee published the “Speech Therapy Assessment Handbook (with Assessment Form)” tailored for Mandarin-speaking communities. Subsequently, in 2024, she served as the chief editor and published the book entitled “Children’s Language Disorder Training Handbook”, focusing on paediatric language intervention in the Chinese-speaking communities.
Professor Lee has been engaged in research related to speech therapy for many years, has presented multiple papers in international journals and conferences, covering various clinical domains of speech therapy.
This seminar aims to equip researchers with the knowledge to critically evaluate and effectively utilize language assessment methodologies.
The session provides an overview of pediatric language assessment tools, focusing on their practical lifecycle from development to research application. Participants will be introduced to established frameworks for test development, demonstrating how linguistic constructs are systematically translated into measurable items. The presentation also covers essential psychometric principles—reliability and validity—which form the foundation of an assessment tool’s credibility and utility.
Validated tests will be used to illustrate key concepts. Commonly used language assessments for Cantonese-speaking children will be introduced, along with analysis of their strengths and limitations in capturing the nuances of language development.
The seminar will further explore how researchers’ own work in linguistics can contribute to the ongoing validation and refinement of these assessment tools.
Enquires
Tel: 39437911 / Email: lin@cuhk..edu.hk
