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Portrait of Maggie Sun, Speech Therapist

Maggie Sun
申嘉愉

Speech Therapist

  • Member of HKAST

  • Member of HKIST

  • MA (Linguistics) HKU

  • B.Sc. (Speech & Hearing Sciences) HKU

Maggie Sun conducts a play-based speech therapy session with a child.
Maggie conducts a play-based speech therapy session with a child.

“Every person’s communication difficulties are different. A speech therapist cannot rely solely on developmental milestones when planning therapy. Careful observation and analysis are needed to identify the underlying difficulties and design an appropriate treatment plan.”

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Ms. Maggie Sun is a speech therapist and former Visiting Clinical Tutor in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. With extensive clinical experience in assessing communication difficulties and explaining treatment plans to parents, she aims to help each child make meaningful progress.

 

Maggie holds a Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of Hong Kong. Her strong interest in language also led her to complete a Master of Arts in Linguistics at the same university.

 

Over more than 20 years, Maggie has worked with preschool and school-age children in a range of settings. These include a child assessment centre under the Hospital Authority; early education and training centres, regional preschool speech therapy services and special child care centres run by non-governmental organisations; and school-based speech therapy services under the Education Bureau. She has supported children with communication difficulties associated with autism, oral-motor difficulties, developmental language delay, speech-sound disorders, voice disorders and fluency disorders.

 

Maggie also gives talks at kindergartens and schools to promote public understanding of speech therapy.

Certifications and Specialist Training

  • Certified in Beckman Oral Motor Assessment and Intervention (USA)

  • Certified in Oral Placement Therapy (OPT), Levels 1 and 2 (USA)

  • Certified in TalkTools training for childhood apraxia of speech (USA)

  • Certified in the Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme (NDP3) for childhood apraxia of speech

  • Certified in Lessac-Madsen Resonant Voice Therapy (LMRVT) for adults and children

  • Certified in the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)

  • Certificate in the PROMPT technique (USA)

  • Certified in Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (FIE), Basic Level

  • Certified test administrator for the Hong Kong Graded Character Naming Test (HKGCNT)

They are having a speech therapy session
Language training cards

Work Experience

  • Speech therapist at Early Education and Training Centres and regional speech therapy services, supporting children aged 2 to 6 with speech and language needs

  • School-based speech therapist under the Education Bureau, supporting primary school students with speech and language needs

  • Experience with the Hospital Authority and the Department of Health’s Child Assessment Centres

  • Former Clinical Tutor in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Hong Kong

Speech Therapy Services

A speech therapist develops a treatment plan tailored to each child’s needs. Therapy may focus on the following areas to support the child’s overall communication:

  • Pre-verbal communication skills: Developing imitation, motivation to communicate, listening and attention, turn-taking, eye contact and visual tracking.

  • Receptive and expressive language: Improving understanding of instructions, passages and questions; building vocabulary; and developing sentence structure and the use of connecting words.

  • Articulation and speech sounds: Identifying speech-sound difficulties and following a structured plan to improve speech clarity.

  • Oral-motor skills: Supporting the strength, stability and coordination of the muscles used in speech, where appropriate.

  • Play skills: Developing play skills at different stages to support social interaction and language development.

  • Social communication: Learning to use language appropriately in different situations and settings.

  • Higher-level language skills: Developing skills such as making inferences, problem-solving, and convergent and divergent thinking.

  • Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC): Recommending suitable ways to communicate without relying solely on speech, and providing training in their use.

They are having a speech therapy session.
speech therapy toys

Assessment Tools

  • Hong Kong Cantonese Oral Language Assessment Scale (HKCOLAS)

  • The Hong Kong Test of Preschool Oral Language (Cantonese) (TOPOL) 

  • Hong Kong Cantonese Receptive Vocabulary Test (HKCRVT) 

  • Hong Kong Cantonese Articulation Test (HKCAT)

  • The Hong Kong Scales for Assessment of Theory of Mind (HKAToM)​​

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