Angel Chan is a developmental psycholinguist and a speech therapist, with expertise in studying child language development and disorders. She studies child first and second language acquisition in cross-linguistic and multi-lingual contexts, so far involving Cantonese, Mandarin, English, German, Urdu, Hindi, and Kam. Her interests include cognitive linguistic, typological-functional and processing approaches to the study of language acquisition and disorders, clinical linguistics, developing language assessment and intervention approaches for children in a Chinese and multilingual context, promoting child language research on Chinese languages, and the use of technology (e.g. AI and robotics) to enhance support for children with communication disorders and for speech therapists. She is collaborating with researchers from the European biSLI community and the Global TALES consortium to study multilingual children in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Pakistan, and India, and her team members have adapted some language assessment tools from the COST Action LITMUS (Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings) initiative and the Global TALES consortium into Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Kam and Urdu. 

She has been serving in international professional circles as follows: The International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL, Child Language Bulletin Editor), First Language (Editorial Board Member), International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP, Multilingual and Multicultural Affairs Committee Member).

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