Prof. Shelley Xiuli Tong

Prof. Shelley Xiuli Tong, Ph.D., is visiting ILCB and CRPN this semester. Shelley Xiuli Tong is a Full Professor at the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Education where she directs the Speech, Language, and Reading Lab. Recognized as an RGC Research Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar, her research, which has been funded by the U.S. National Academy of Education and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, focuses on utilizing cognitive-behavioural, neurophysiological, and machine learning approaches to investigate the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying statistical learning in children with dyslexia; the roles of prosodic reading in bilingual reading comprehension difficulties; and optimal solutions for classifying dyslexia, autism, and hearing-impairment. She has developed an intelligent dyslexic interface design (I-DID) that capitalizes on individual strengths of children with dyslexia and reflects her life-long commitment to transform scientific evidence into public policy and practice. Her work has resulted in over 80 publications in journals such as Child Development, Cognition, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Educational Psychology, Learning and Instruction, and Educational Psychology Review.

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