WAI, Justine

Justine Wai is a second-year Ph.D. student at the Speech, Language, and Reading Lab (SLR Lab). She graduated from Loughborough University (B.Sc. in Psychology with Criminology) and later worked as a Research Assistant at the SLR Lab for two years. Her work on the lab's large-scale projects inspired her current research interests in assessment and intervention related to the social-emotional processes between caregivers and children with and without autism. 

WANG, Xin

Wang Xin is a fourth-year Ph.D. student who received her Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Jiangsu University and her Master’s degree in Applied Psychology from Nanjing Normal University. Her doctoral research explores statistical learning in children with developmental dyslexia (DD) and dyscalculia.

ZHOU, Mei

Zhou Mei is a fourth-year Ph.D. student of the SLR lab. She received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences from Zhejiang University. Her current research interests focus on the cognitive mechanisms underlying statistical learning in children with special educational needs.

VASUDEVMURTHY, Arpitha

Arpitha Vasudevamurthy is a fourth-year PhD student under the supervision of Dr Shelley Xiuli Tong. She graduated from All India Institute of Speech and Hearing with a Bachelor’s in Speech and Hearing sciences and Master’s in Speech and Language Pathology (SLP). As an SLP, she has expertise in conducting diagnostic and therapeutic management for individuals with communication disorders. Having worked at government institutions and private clinics, she has clinical exposure to acquire and neurodevelopmental communication disorders among individuals in rural, urban and tribal areas of South India. Her research focuses on implicit learning mechanisms in relation to language and literacy development in children with developmental language disorders (DLD) and developmental dyslexia (DD).

​Yoyo Chan is a sixth-year part-time Ph.D. student of the SLR lab in Human Communication, Development & Information Sciences (CDIS). She graduated from the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences with a minor in Psychology in 2017. She has worked as a qualified speech therapist in diverse settings including private centers, special schools, mainstream primary and secondary schools, cleft clinic, and elderly homes. She is currently working with school-age children with special educational needs. Her research interest lies in speech and language training through music for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).