Kuen-Fung Sin

Prof. Sin Kuen-fung, Kenneth, MH, is the Professor of Department of Special Education and Counselling and Director of the Centre for Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education at The Education University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong SAR, China. Prof. Sin is with excellence and leadership in teacher education in inclusive education over the years. His expertise and research are in the area of emotional disorders, learning difficulties, autism, assistive technology in special needs and professional development in inclusion. He has great consultancy experience in many local research projects as well as the training work for teachers teaching children with disabilities in Mainland China and Macau. He once led a project valued 51 million Hong Kong Dollars for three years funded by the Education Bureau. It aims at advancing the inclusion by organizing a wide range of professional development programs at different levels for Hong Kong teachers. Prof. Sin also takes part in many community activities, in relation to special needs and inclusion. Such services include school supervisor or council members of special schools, task groups in giftedness, inclusion, special needs in EDB, CDI and HKEAA, committee members in many NGOs for persons with visual impairment, hearing impairment, intellectual disabilities and autism. He is the vice chairman of the Hong Kong Special Education Society. Currently, he is leading research on special needs and large projects on school-based support in inclusive schools, teacher empowerment in BEd programs and special needs training in China. These are respectively funded by RGC of UGC, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, Lee Hysan Foundation and Tin Ka Ping Foundation. In 2021, Professor SIN is awarded MH by the government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, in recognition of his achievement in developing special education, particularly his contribution to enhancing special education training for teachers.