Rachel Wong
Senior Speech Therapist
BSc (Speech & Hearing Sciences) HKU
MA (Social Service Mgt) CUHK
Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment Mediator
Professional Background
- B.Sc. (Speech & Hearing Sciences), HKU
- Master of Arts (M.A.) in Social Service Management, CUHK
Advanced Professional Training
- Certified Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment Basic Mediator (Level 2 of 2)
- Certified Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment Standard Mediator (Level 2 of 3)
- Certified Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment Tactile Mediator
- Completed “Workshop of Dynamic Assessment for your children – Theory and Application”
- Certified Orton-Gillingham® English Training Course (Basic & Advanced) provider
- Completed Visualizing and Verbalizing® for Language Comprehension and Thinking (V/V®) workshop by Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes®
- Completed Talkies™ - Visualizing and Verbalizing® for Oral Language Comprehension and Expression workshop by Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes®
- Certified Hong Kong Cantonese Oral Language Assessment Scale (HKCOLAS) provider
- Certified Hong Kong Graded Character Naming Test (HKGCNT) provider
- Completed “Workshop on Treatment of Chinese Developmental Dyslexia” (HKU)
- Completion of School-based Speech and Language Support Training Course for Speech Therapists (HKU School of Professional & Continuing Education)
- Clinical provider of “Adventures in Voice®” (AIV) treatment program
- Completed “Yell Well Voicecraft Workshop”
- Completed Estill Voice Training System Level One Course: Compulsory Figures for Voice Control (Course number: 200710500)
- Completed “Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets Workshop”
Professional Working Experience
- Currently private practice as speech therapist
- Speech Therapist. Division of Speech Therapist, Dept of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, CUHK (Since 2006)
- Speech Therapist, supporting secondary and primary schools (EDB)
- Former speech therapist of The Institute of Human Communicative Research, CUHK
- Former speech therapist of Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Program, CUHK
- Former Honorary Speech Therapist, NTEC, Hospital Authority (2006 - 2018)
- Former speech therapist supporting Taipo Baptist Church and the paediatric speech development program
- Former speech therapist of Po Leung Kuk District-Based Speech Therapy Service
- Former speech therapist of Po Leung Kuk Child Development Program
Teaching Experience
- Instructor of Thematic Course on Supporting Students with SEN: Sensory, Communication and Physical Needs (The Hong Kong Institute of Education)
- Instructor of language training workshop for teachers organized by Macau Education and Youth Affairs Bureau
- Instructor of “Read & Write: A Jockey Club Learning Support Network”
- Instructor of “Certificate Course on Developmental and Disorders of Speech and Language in Children” by the Federation of Medical Societies of Hong Kong
- Former visiting lecturer of WHO Collaborating Centre for Rehabilitation, Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation
- Former honorary clinical instructor of HKU (Division of Speech & Hearing Sciences)
- Co-author of Sound Jigsaw: A Speech Perception Training Kit for Cantonese-speaking Children with Hearing Impairment
- Co-author of Training Manual on Communication Techniques at home setting for Autistic Children (Caritas Parent Resource Centre)