2023-02-13

Mr. Chris YIU is the Senior Programme Officer of the Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies (CSLDS), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also the co-founder and director of the charity organization, SLCO Community Resources (語橋社會資源有限公司), established in 2016 with the support of the Sustainable Knowledge Transfer Project Fund of CUHK as an independent non-profit charitable organization to provide self-sustainable community services for people with different aspects of communication needs arisen from deafness or other disabilities. Mr. Yiu is professionally trained in special education, social work, and linguistics. He is also a technical audiologist, trained at the University College London, dedicated to promoting hearing health in the community.

 

Mr. Raymond WONG graduated in CUHK with a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics. His university studies lead him into learning sign language and working as a student helper at the Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies (CSLDS) in CUHK, where he eventually worked at CSLDS as a Research Assistant after his graduation in 2011 and gained invaluable experiences in working with deaf people on different fronts such as materials design and production, administration, project management and funding application. In 2016, he took further training in social enterprise management at HKUSPACE and was a core team member to drive the establishment of SLCO Community Resources, the first social enterprise cum charitable organization set up based on academic research in CUHK. He is now the General Manager of the organization, overseeing operations and organizational development.