Professor LAW Thomas Ka Tung
AppointmentDeputy Chief, Division of Speech Therapy
Assistant Professor (non-clinical)
Speech Therapist
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, CUHK
Assistant Director
The Institute of Human Communicative Research, CUHK

Dr Thomas Law is a speech-language pathologist registered in Hong Kong and Australia. He specialises in voice disorders, fluency disorders, and multilingual acquisition and its disorders. He is currently the Deputy Chief of Division of Speech Therapy. Thomas’ research includes intervention outcomes and epidemiology in both stuttering and voice disorders, linguistic factors affecting stuttering, issues regarding perceptual evaluation of voice and clinical education in speech-language pathology.
EducationPhD (Health Sciences), USyd
MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CUHK
BAppSc (SpPath), USyd
Research InterestsVoice disorders and laryngology
Stuttering and fluency disorders
Clinical education
Specialisations (Expertise)Voice disorders and stuttering (Lidcombe Program)
QualificationsCertified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP, Speech Pathology Australia)
Registered Speech Therapist (Register of Speech Therapists accredited by Department of Health, Hong Kong)
Honorary AppointmentHonorary Speech Therapist, NTEC, Hospital Authority
Professional ServiceAccreditor of University Programs, Speech Pathology Australia (SPA)
Trainer, Lidcombe Program Trainers Consortium
Committee Member of the Fluency Committee of The International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP)
Committee Member of the Registration Committee, The Hong Kong Institute of Speech Therapists (HKIST)
Academic EngagementProgramme Leader of Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology, CUHK
Selected PublicationsChan, Y.T., Zhang, H.W., Sun, W.Z., Or, K.H., Guo, Y.-Q., ... Law, T., Wong, R.W.-M., Lin, Z.-X. (2020). Acupuncture for post-stroke dysphagia: A pilot, nonrandomized, self-controlled trial. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 10:1-7.
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2020/4689296/
Liu, Y., Lee, T., Law, T., Lee, K.Y.-S. (2019) Acoustic assessment of voice disorders with continuous speech using ASR posterior features. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. 27(6): 1047-1059.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8668484
Law, T., Packman, A. Onslow, M., To, C.K.-S., Tong, M.C.-F., Lee, K.Y.-S. (2018). Rhythmic speech and stuttering reduction in a syllable-timed language. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 32(10): 932-949.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29873568
Liu, Y., Lee, T., Law, T., Lee, K.Y.-S., Ching, P.C. (2018). Prediction of voice disorder severity: Contributions from sustained vowels and continuous speech. 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP. Proceedings 8706612: 290-294.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8706612
Law, T., Packman, A. Onslow, M., To, C.K.-S., Tong, M.C.-F., Lee, K.Y.-S. (2018). Lexical tone and stuttering in Cantonese. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 32(4): 285-297.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28853955
Law, T., Packman, A., Onslow, M., To, C.K.-S., Tong, M.C.-F., Lee, K.Y-S. (2017). The topography of stuttering in Cantonese. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. 69:110-117.
https://www.karger.com/Article/PDF/481254
Law, T., Lee, K.Y.-S., Wong, R.W.-M., Leung, Y., Ku, P.K.-M., Wong, W.W.-Y., Li, H.-N., Ng, L.K.-Y., van Hasselt, C.A., Tong, M.C.-F. (2017). Effects of electrical stimulation on vocal functions in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Laryngoscope. 127(5): 1119-1124.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27859286
Liu, Y., Lee, T., Ching, P.C., Law, T., Lee, K.Y.-S. (2017). Acoustic assessment of disordered voice with continuous speech based on utterance-level ASR posterior features. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2017-August: 2680-2684.
https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2017/pdfs/0280.PDF
Lee, T., Liu, Y., Huang, P.-W., Chien, J.-T., Lam, W.K., Yeung,Y.T., Law, T., Lee, K.Y.-S., Kong, A.P.-H., Law, S.-P. (2016). Automatic speech recognition for acoustical analysis and assessment of Cantonese pathological voice and speech. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing – Proceedings 2016-May,7472924: 6475-6479.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7472924
Chan, Y.T., Leung, W.-N.A., Sun, W., Zhang, H., Lin, Z.-X. ... Law, T., Wong, W.-M. (2015). Clinical study on the treatment of post-stroke dysphagia using acupuncture: analysis on the interim results. Hong Kong Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine. 10(4): 53-56.
http://www.hkjtcm.org/journals/2015
Lee, J.S.W., Chui, P.Y.; Ma, H.M.; Auyeung, T.W.; Kng, C., Law, T., Ng, L.K.Y., Tam, K.F., Tang, W.H., Chan, B.Y.T., Tong, M.C.F., Wong, K.T., Yuen, Y.-H., Yuk, K.L., Kwok, T. (2015) Does low dose angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor prevent pneumonia in older people with neurologic dysphagia – a randomized placebo-controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 16(8): 702-707.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26123256
Lee, J.P.-W., Law, T., Lam, G.Y.-H., To, C.K.-S. (2013) Role of sentence final particles and intonation in irony comprehension in Cantonese-speaking children with and without ASD. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 27(1): 18-32.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23237415
To, C.K.-S., Law, T., Cheung, P.S.-P. (2012) Treatment intensity in everyday clinical management of speech sound disorders in Hong Kong. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 14(5); 462-466.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22974105
To, C. K.-S., Law, T., Li, X.X. (2012). The influence of additional language learning on first language learning in children with language disorders. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 47(2), 208-216.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22369061
Law, T., Kim, J.H., Lee, K.Y.-S., Tang, E.C.-H., Lam, J.H.S., van Hasselt, A.C., Tong, M.C.-F. (2012). Comparison of rater’s reliability on perceptual evaluation of different types of voice samples. Journal of Voice. 26(5); 666.e13-666.e21
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22243971
Law, T., Lee, K.Y.-S., Ho, F.N.-Y., Vlantis, A.C., van Hasselt, A.C., Tong, M.C.-F. (2012). The effectiveness of group voice therapy: a group climate perspective. Journal of Voice. 26(2); e41-e48.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21550777
https://publons.com/researcher/2827788/thomas-law/
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Law
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