Dr KONG, Anthony P.H.
Dr KONG, Anthony P.H.
江柏軒
Associate ProfessorAcademic Unit of Human Communication, Development, and Information Sciences
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Location
Room 764, Meng Wah Complex
Research Expertise
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Assessment, Testing and Measurement
Brain and Cognition
Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Prospective PhD/ EdD/ MPhil Applications
I am available to supervise PhD/EdD/MPhil students and would welcome enquiries for supervision.
Links
Personal Website
Areas of Expertise
Aphasia
Discourse analysis
Speech-and-language pathology
Neurogenic communication disorders
Development of language and cognitive batteries
Bilingualism /multilingualism
Gesture production
Awards
2020: UCF Faculty Authors' Celebration Award 2020, UCF Office of Research and Office of Faculty Excellence, University of Central Florida
2018: UCF Research Incentive Award 2017-18, Faculty Affairs Office, University of Central Florida
2018: UCF Faculty Authors' Celebration Award 2018, UCF Office of Research and Office of Faculty Excellence, University of Central Florida
2017: College of Health and Public Affairs International Incentive Award, University of Central Florida
2017: Induction to UCF Scroll & Quill Society, Faulty Excellence, UCF Academic Affairs, University of Central Florida
2017: Award for Excellence in Professional Service, College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida
2016: Five Years of Service Recognition, The ASHA Student to Empowered Professional (S.T.E.P.) 1:1 Mentoring Program - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
2015: Inaugural United Nations Award, Annual UCF Millionaires Event, Office of Research & Commercialization, University of Central Florida
2013: Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Contribution in International Achievement - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
2013: UCF Research Incentive Award 2012-13, Faculty Affairs Office, University of Central Florida
2013: Service-Learning Faculty Recognition Award, Office of Experiential Learning, University of Central Florida
2011: Excellence in Research Award, College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida
2011: Distinguished Researcher of the Year 2010-11, College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida
2009: Distinguished Alumni, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles (selected):
Kong, A.P.H. (2021). COVID-19 and aphasia. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 21, article 61.ePub ahead Oct 21.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11910-021-01150-xBrady, M.C., Ali, M., ...Kong, A.P.H.et al. [The RELEASE Collaborators] (2021). Dosage, intensity and frequency of language therapy for aphasia: A systematic review-based, individual participant data network meta-analysis. Stroke.ePub ahead Dec 1.https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.035216
Kong, A.P.H., Chan, K.P.-Y.*, & Jagoe, C. (2021).A systematic review of communication partner training in Chinese-speaking persons with aphasia. Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation.ePub ahead Nov 2.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arrct.2021.100152
Kong, A.P.H., Lau, D.K.-Y., &Chai, V.N.-Y.* (2021). Communication and social inactivity during COVID-19 lockdown in Hong Kong: Psychosocial implications to individuals with aphasia, their primary caretakers, and healthy adults. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 6(4), 964-967. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_PERSP-21-00002
Criel, Y.#, Deleu, M.#, De Groote, E., Bockstael, A., Kong, A.P.H., De Letter, M. (2021). The Dutch Main Concept Analysis: Translation and establishment of normative data. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 30(4), 1750-1766. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-20-00285
Yazu, H.+, Kong, A.P.H., Yoshihata, H., & Okubo, K. (2021). AdaptationandvalidationoftheMainConcept Analysis of spoken discourse by native Japanese adults. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. ePub ahead May 14. https://doi.org/10.1080/**.2021.**
Kong, A.P.H. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on speakers with aphasia: What is currently known and missing?Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64, 176-180. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00371
Kong, A.P.H. (2020). Impact of COVID-19 on college seniors’ learning and performance in communication sciences and disorders: Students’ self-reflections. Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders, 5(3), 137-146. https://doi.org/10.21849/cacd.2020.00262
Telesca, L.+, Ehren, B.J., Hahs-Vaughn, D.L., Zygouris-Coe, V.I., & Kong, A.P.H. (2020). The effect of metalinguistic sentence combining on eighth-grade students’ understanding and written expression of comparison and contrast in science. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(9), 3068-3083. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00086
Qin, Y.+, Wu, Y., Lee, T. & Kong, A.P.H. (2020). An end-to-end approach to automatic speech assessment for Cantonese-speaking people with aphasia. Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 92(8), 819-830. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-019-01511-3
Kong, A.P.H. (2020). The use of free non-dementia-specific Apps on iPad to conduct group communication exercises for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (Innovative Practice). Dementia, 19(4), 1252-1264.https://doi.org/10.1177/**27630
Qin, Y.+, Lee, T. & Kong, A.P.H. (2020). Automatic assessment of speech impairment in Cantonese-speaking people with aphasia. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 14(2), 331-345. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTSP.2019.**
Kong, A.P.H. & Law, S.P. (2019). Cantonese AphasiaBank: An annotated database of spoken discourse and co-verbal gestures by healthy and language-impaired native Cantonese speakers. Behavior Research Methods, 51(3), 1131-1144. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1043-6
Kong, A.P.H. & Wong, C.W.-Y.* (2018). An integrative analysis of spontaneous storytelling discourse in aphasia: Relationship with listeners’ rating and prediction of severity and fluency status of aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27, 1491-1505.https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-18-0015
Kong, A.P.H., Chan, J. #, Lau, J.K.L., Bickerton, W.L., Weekes, B., & Humphreys, G. (2018). Developing a Cantonese version of Birmingham Cognitive Screen for stroke survivors in Hong Kong. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 39(3), 387-401. https://doi.org/10.1177/**20382
Wallace, S.J., Worrall, L., Rose, T., Le Dorze, G., Cruice, M., Isaksen, J., Kong, A.P.H., Simmons-Mackie, N, Scarinci, N.A., & Gauvreau, C.A. (2017). Which outcomes are most important to people with aphasia and their families? An international nominal group technique study framed within the ICF. Disability and Rehabilitation, 39(14), 1364-1379. https://doi.org/10.1080/**.2016.**
Kong, A.P.H., Whiteside, J.,&Bargmann, P. (2016). The Main Concept Analysis: Validation and sensitivity in differentiating discourse produced by unimpaired English speakers from individuals with aphasia and dementia of Alzheimer type. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 41(3), 129-141. https://doi.org/10.3109/**.2015.**
Kong, A.P.H., & Weekes, B. (2011). Use of the BAT with a Cantonese-Putonghua speaker with aphasia. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 25, 540-552. https://doi.org/10.3109/**.2011.570851
Kong, A.P.H. (2011). The main concept analysis in Cantonese aphasic oral discourse: External validation and monitoring chronic aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54, 148-159. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/09-0240) https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2010/09-0240)
Kong, A.P.H. (2009). The use of main concept analysis to measure discourse production in Cantonese-speaking persons with aphasia: A preliminary report. Journal of Communication Disorders, 42, 442-464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2009.06.002
Kong, A.P.H., & Law, S.P. (2009). A linguistic communication measure for monitoring changes in Chinese aphasic narrative production. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 23(4), 255-269. https://doi.org/10.1080/73234
Textbooks
Kong, A.P.H. (2022). Analysis of neurogenic disordered discourse production: Theories, assessment and treatment (Second edition). New York, NY: Routledge Psychology Press.Kong, A.P.H. (2016). Analysis of neurogenic disordered discourse production: From theory to practice. New York, NY: Routledge Psychology Press. [ISBN: 978-1-138-85359-1]
Clinical Assessment Batteries
Kong, A.P.H., Chan, J.#, Lau, J.K.L., Bickerton, W.L., Weekes, B., & Humphreys, G. (2017). The Cantonese version of Birmingham Cognitive Screen (HK-BCoS).https://www.cognitionmatters.org.uk/bcos.phpKong, A.P.H. (2016). The Main Concept Analysis (MCA) for oral discourse production. Hong Kong: The CommercialPress (H.K.) Limited. [ISBN: 978-962-07-0412-3] https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cbs/st/en/main-concept-analysis-for-oral-discourse-production
Kong, A.P.H., Ho, D.W.L., Lau, J.K., Humphreys, G., Riddoch, J., & Weekes, B. (2016). The Hong Kong version of the Oxford Cognitive Screen(HK-OCS). Oxford (UK): Oxford University Innovation. http://www.ocs-test.org/?page_id=188
Kong, A.P.H. (2014). Family members’ perceptions of speech-language pathology services for persons with aphasia questionnaire. PsycTESTS® Database Record. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/t34891-000
Language Corpora
Kong, A.P.H., & Law, S.P. (since 2015). Cantonese AphasiaBank.https://speech.edu.hku.hk/caphbank/search/Kong, A.P.H., & Law, S.P. (2014). AphasiaBank Cantonese aphasia corpus. The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC). http://olac.ldc.upenn.edu/item/oai:talkbank.org:AphasiaBank-Cantonese-Aphasia
Kong, A.P.H., & Law, S.P. (2014). AphasiaBank Cantonese control corpus. The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC). http://www.language-archives.org/item.php/oai:talkbank.org:AphasiaBank-Cantonese-Control
Kong, A.P.H., Law, S.P., & MacWhinney, B. (since 2014). Chinese corpora (linguistic data with audio and video files) of spontaneous narratives from Cantonese speakers with aphasia. https://aphasia.talkbank.org/access/Cantonese/Aphasia/HKU.html[ISBN: 1-59642-959-3] https://doi.org/10.21415/t5p309
Kong, A.P.H., Law, S.P., & MacWhinney, B. (since 2014). Chinese corpora of spontaneous narratives from normal native Cantonese speakers. https://aphasia.talkbank.org/access/Cantonese/Control/HKU.html[ISBN: 1-59642-960-7] https://doi.org/10.21415/t5401p
Law, S.P., Kong, A.P.H., & MacWhinney, B. (since 2010). A Cantonese (yue) morphological parser for linguistic analysis. https://www.talkbank.org/morgrams/yue.zip
Clinical Handbooks
Kong, AP.H., & Law, S.P. (2019). Cantonese AphasiaBank: Translating research results to everyday management of aphasia【粵語失語症數據庫】：由研究結果到失語症的日常管理. Hong Kong:The University of Hong Kong (Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences). [ISBN: 978-988-79910-8-3]Kong, A.P.H. (2009). Communication and swallowing impairments after brain injury: Handbook for survivors and family members. Hong Kong: Centre for Communication Disorders (CCD), The University of Hong Kong. [ISBN: 978-988-17240-2-1]
Leung, M.T., Chan, K.W., Chung, Y.M., Ng, H.Y., Kong, P.H., & Lau, K.M. (2006). Translation glossary of speech pathology terms (Second edition). Hong Kong: Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists.
+Doctoral, *Master’s, #Undergraduate research student (co-)supervised
Professional Community Services
Journal Editorship
Section Editor: (Inaugural) Linguistics Section, PLOS ONE; USA and United Kingdom.Editorial Member, Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders, (https://e-cacd.org/), South Korea.
International / National Consultation Work
Founding Advisory Member, Aphasia United (http://www.aphasiaunited.org/), Australia, United Kingdom, and USA.Project Advisory and Leadership Team Member, Project BRIDGE (Building Research Initiatives by Developing Group Effort; https://www.projectbridge.online/), Nova Southeastern University, USA.
Advisory Board Member, Aphasia Services in Diverse Neurorehabilitation Caseloads (ASDNC), USA.
Consultant, Self Help Group for the Brain Damaged (http://www.braindamaged.org.hk/), Hong Kong.
Honorary Advisor, The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation, Hong Kong.
Research Consultant, “Application of Word Association Navigation (WAN) to Chinese speakers with aphasia” Department of Rehabilitation, Jiangsu Province Hospital - Shengze Branch (江蘇省人民醫院—盛澤分院), Jiangsu, China.
Professional Appointment
2004-07: Vice Chairperson, Executive committee of the Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists (HKAST), Hong Kong.2003-04: External Secretary, Executive committee of the Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists (HKAST), Hong Kong.
Others
Fellow: Academy of Aphasia.
Member: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Member: Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists (HKAST)
