Froma Walsh, PhD is Co-Director, Chicago Center for Family Health and Firestone Professor Emerita, at the University of Chicago. She has developed a research-informed Family Resilience Framework for community-based intervention and prevention with families facing adversity through crises, trauma, and loss; disruptive transitions (e.g. migration, separation, divorce; job loss) and multi-stress conditions of persistent life challenges, (e.g. serious illness/disability, poverty). Her collaborative practice approach integrates multicultural and spiritual resources in recovery, healing, and positive growth. Her recent books are: Strengthening Family Resilience, (2nd ed.); Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy (2nd ed.); Normal Family Processes: Growing Diversity & Complexity, (3rd ed); Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family (2nd. ed).

Dr. Walsh is a licensed clinical psychologist, past president of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA), past editor of Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, and a recipient of numerous awards for her distinguished contributions to the mental health field. She is a frequent speaker and consultant internationally.

A much-respected figure in the local education sector, Mr. Leung is currently President of Hong Kong Aided Primary School Heads Association. Mr. Leung also holds various key positions, such as Principal of H.K.F.E.W. Wong Cho Bau School, Standing Committee of the Hong Kong Teachers’ Centre, School Director of CECES Organized Aetna Preschool, Member of Islands District Council, the Chairman of Community Affairs, Culture and Recreation Committee, to name but a few. He was also past Principal of GT School. Mr. Leung obtained a Master of Education (Med) from the University of Hong Kong and has dedicated all his life in Hong Kong’s primary education, with an emphasis on promoting creative learning for students. Mr. Leung was also author of a book analysis the primary education system in Hong Kong.

Dr Anita C. Leung is a Registered Clinical Psychologist and Fellow of The Hong Kong Psychological Society, as well as a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of The British Psychological Society. She is concerned in the promotion of optimal functioning and well-being in individuals, families, organizations and society. She has been writing books and delivering courses on growth facilitation in the past 1 to 2 decades. Her current interest focuses on growth and developmental psychological consultation, family mediation, child custody and forensic assessment.

Dr. Leung advocates caregivers and educators of children to activate their scientific inquiry mind and empathic responsiveness to co-regulate with children in their daily interactions, to take on challenges to revise their assumptions and problem solving style when invalidated, and to dance with the children in steps for the actualization of each others’ potentialities.

Dr. Wong Mun is the Field Experience Coordinator for the Bachelor of Education (Hons) (Early Childhood Education, 3-year Part-time) Programme. She is also the Project Leader of Zippy’s Friends, an emotional education programme in Hong Kong (2006-9). Over 40,000 five to seven year olds have been benefited from the programme with significant improvement in expressing emotions, solving problems and learning attitude.

She was invited by the Director of the Department of Education, Oxford University to be a Visiting Research Fellow from April to June in 2010.  Her research projects and recent publications are mainly on preschool children’s moral and emotional development; particularly children’s understanding of rules and use of coping strategies.

-	B.Soc.Sc. in Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1994)
-	M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1998)
-	Associate Fellow of Hong Kong Psychological Society
-	Registered Clinical Psychologist, Hong Kong Psychological Society
-	Registered Counselling Psychologist, Hong Kong Psychological Society
-	Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society
-	Part-time Lecturer, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong

Intelligence is composed of a variety of abilities, such as reasoning, judgment, language, mathematics, memory, creativity, abstract thinking, processing speed, and capacity to acquire knowledge, solve problem and adapt to one’s environment.  Intelligence can be a predictor of scholastic achievement, as well as adaptive and successful functioning within specific environments.

A formal intellectual assessment should be conducted by a qualified clinical psychologist or educational psychologist.  It is an integration of standardized tests, clinical interviews, behavioral observations and informal assessment procedures.  Recognized intelligence tests are norm-referenced, with high reliability and validity.  These tests are consisted of a series of different verbal and non-verbal tasks, and are administered on a one-on-one and interactive basis.

Children’s performance in an intellectual assessment could be affected by a number of factors.  Besides, there are limitations for intelligence tests.  Nevertheless, such tests are scientific, standardized and internationally recognized assessment tools, which are theoretically based, meticulously devised and have been subjected to thorough statistical analysis and continuous empirical research.

Intelligence testing gives a profile of strengths and weaknesses of one’s abilities.  This helps parents and teachers to throw light on educational plan for a child.  Intellectual assessment also serves to identify special needs children for referral to appropriate schools and remedial services.  Moreover, intelligence tests can measure effects of special programs, training and intervention.  They could be applied periodically to assess developmental progress of an individual child too.

Mr. Abraham Tang currently is the Associate Director of The Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education (HKAGE) and responsible for coordinating and planning programmes and services for the gifted. Since 1991, Mr. Tang has been serving in different secondary schools and was appointed as an Associate Vice-Principal before joining the HKAGE. In 2003 to 2005, he was seconded to the Education Bureau as a School Development Officer. In 2006-2008, Mr. Tang was appointed as a committee member of Subsidy Secondary School and the Vice-Secretary of Academic Committee of the Hong Kong Teachers’ Association. Mr. Tang obtained Teacher Certificate, certificates of Advanced Course of Teacher Education, School Discipline and Youth Counselling, his Bachelor of Social Sciences and Master of Education in past years.

For effective advocacy of gifted education, Mr. Tang is currently also a member of the Curriculum Development Council Committee on Gifted Education and the executive member of the Quality Education Fund Thematic Network–Gifted Education.

Dr. Ting has practiced in the field of mental health for 19 years. After graduating with a Bachelor degree in Medicine & Surgery in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he received professional training in psychiatry in various hospitals and institutes including Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy & Hypnotherapy. He has been a fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Psychiatry) since 2003. He has deep interest in research on “criminal behaviour”. He obtained the Master of Social Sciences (Criminology) of the University of Hong Kong in 2008. He is now the Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor of the University of Hong Kong, Medical Consultant of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union, Consultant of the TWG Hospitals Counselling Centre for Psychotropic Substance Abusers, and Consultant of the Yuk Chi Resource Centre for mental handicap. He was the former chairman of the Hong Kong Society of the Psychiatrists in 2008 to 2010.

She obtained her Master of Social Science (Family Social Work) from The university of Hong Kong in 2005 and now is a senior clinical practitioner of Counselling and Psychotherapy for Children and Family. Her expertise includes conducting Family Therapy and Psychotherapy for children with emotional disturbances.  She also has extensive experiences in working with gifted children who encounter learning, social, behavioral and emotional problems.  She conducted a research investigating parenting stress of parents of gifted children and started a project (SENG Model parent group) in 2005.  She is the major trainer and over 400 families have attended her classes and found it useful for effectively parenting and nurturing their children. She has written and edited several books about children with special educational needs.

Being gifted is exceptional. Gifted children with other kinds of exceptionality like Attention Deficient, Dyslexia, Hyper-activity, Autism / Asperser, Sensory Integration problems are described as multi-exceptional.

Approximately one-sixth of the gifted children have some types of learning disability. Their higher abilities enable them to develop compensatory strategies to manage their weaknesses. It will hide their learning difficulties.  The effects of a learning disability can suppress a child’s giftedness and the child’s giftedness can mask his or her learning challenge and become harder to detect. Their inconsistent academic performance may lead parents and teachers to misunderstand them as not putting forth adequate effort. In addition, compensation requires more energy and may not guarantee success. The frustrating experiences, turn out, may affect motivation.

Tailored made accommodations, designed based on individual’s strength and weaknesses, enable multi-exceptional children to learn in ways that best suited them. Therefore, they still can be happy and promising children if we can develop and help them according to their strength, interest and weaknesses.

A well known radio programme host for many years.

After his retirement 3 years ago, he has been working as a full time tutor for presentation skill and a part time column writer as well. He has obtained a Diploma in Child Psychology from HKOU, a foundation certificate (with Distinction) in Hypnotherapy from HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education. At present, he is studying the Master of Education (Liberal Studies) in HKBU.

Dr. Tiffany MY Lee has ten years of experience in counselling in different settings such as government, hospitals, and public setters, dealing with cases of career, study, family, marriage, emotion, social deficit and other. Dr. Lee provides clinical psychodiagnostics and psycholtherapy services to people who are of different backgrounds, and conducts various talks and training for parents and patient support groups.

Ms Lili Tsang began learning ballet with the renowned ballet master and educator, Mrs. Joan Campbell, at the tender age of five.  She went to the UK in 1986 to further her studies in ballet and obtained the Licentiate of Royal Academy of Dancing L.R.A.D. and other professional qualifications.  After graduation she began teaching at Baber Miki Ballet Academy in Japan and then returned to Hong Kong to run her own dance academies.

Besides giving lessons in ballet, Lili also likes to share with parents her own experience in building relationships with children.  She believes that the family has a great influence on a child’s moral character, mental and physical development.  Seeing that nowadays society often reprimands and criticizes the conduct of children and teenagers, Lili endeavours to contribute to the promotion of children’s character and moral education.

In April 2009, Lili co-founded the Hong Kong Children’s Character Education Resource Centre (the Centre) with EQ training specialist, Mr. Charles Yu, in an attempt to arouse the attention of parents, teachers and the public on the importance of promoting children’s character and moral education so as to help forge a positive attitude towards life among the next generation.

Lili believes that “love” is the most essential element in educating children and the most powerful factor in stabilizing a family.  Since parents are the most important and the earliest teachers of their children, through appropriate physical contact and positive words they can impart correct messages of love to their children.  The Centre is a voluntary organization offering relevant reading materials, workshops and seminars to parents and their children to help them realize a harmonious family relationship in a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere.