Global Conference on Disorders in Auditory Processing, Literacy, Language and Related Sciences 2012

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Welcome message from the Conference Chair

4-7Jan 2012, Hong Kong

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

The Department of Special Education and Counselling of The Hong Kong Institute of Education welcomes you to join the highlighted event of 2012:

Global Conference on Disorders in
Auditory Processing, Literacy, Language and Related Sciences 2012 (APLL2012)

APLL2012 was originated from the discussion among our organizing committee members that it is important to have more cross-disciplinary discussions on issues related to auditory processing disorders, reading and writing disorders, language disorders, and other related disorders. These disorders seem distinct among one another from historical and professional practice perspectives but more and more research suggests that they in fact overlap in many ways including clinical presentations, suspected underlying causes, diagnostic criteria, and re/habilitation strategies. By bringing in respective leaders in the fields, we hope that APLL2012 will open new windows to promote cross disciplinary discussions and collaborations on ways that we can better service individuals suffer from these closely related disorders through future research. We hope APLL2012 will help promote advancements in related research initiatives and services in the Asia regions.

To the best of our knowledge, APLL2012 is one of the very first conferences in Asia with such a cross-disciplinary interaction platform. We anticipate that APLL2012 will attract more than 300 participants from Hong Kong, nearby Asia regions, and other international regions. We are very excited to know that researchers and practitioners in psychology, education, speech-language pathology, audiology, occupational therapy, otorhinolaryngology, pediatrics, and other related disciplines are very interested to participate in APLL2012. We sincerely believe that APLL2012 will kick-off the many future international conferences of its kind in the years to come.

We sincerely thank The Department of Special Education and Counselling and The Croucher Foundation of Hong Kong for their generous financial support for APLL2012.

APLL2012 will offer outstanding presentations from keynote and invited speakers who are the lead researchers in the field. There will be daily highlight round tables on selected controversial topics, which would be inspiring for all. We have a call for posters from you to share your research outcomes with other colleagues in the field.

On behalf of the organizing committee, we look forward to seeing you in APLL2012 in our beautiful campus, our beautiful Asia’s World City of Hong Kong in Jan 2012!

With Best Regards,

Kevin YUEN, PhD

Conference Chair

Associate Head, Assistant Professor

Department of Special Education & Counselling