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主講人：聖地牙哥大學中華研究所所長劉麗容教授

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說明：劉麗容教授畢業於台灣大學，獲有南伊大、密西根大學語言碩士學位和聖地牙哥大學語言及文化教育博士學位，是一位語言、教育、多元文化溝通專業學者，發表過相當多之專業論文，並著有多本相關書籍，多次應邀至全美和世界各地巡迴演講多元文化、語言教育、跨文化發展，此次非常難得應美華協會之邀到聖路易地區演講，歡迎各界人士參加，協辦單位布希酒廠當天將提供早餐招待。

Dr. Cheng is Professor in the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University and the Executive Director of Chinese Study Institute. She was the past president of the International Affairs Association, a related professional organization of ASHA. She is also a fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA). Dr. Cheng is the recipient of the 1997 ASHA Award for special contributions to Multicultural Affairs. Dr. Cheng is the recipient of the 2002 Diversity Award from the California Speech & Hearing Association. Dr. Cheng has numerous publications and has lectured all over the world.

Dr. Cheng received a bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University, a master's degree in Linguistics focusing in English as a second language from Southern Illinois University and a master's in Speech-Language Pathology from Michigan State University and a doctoral degree in Speech Language Pathology and Multicultural Education from Claremont Graduate University and San Diego State University. Dr. Cheng has researched second language acquisition, language and culture, cross-cultural communication, and speech-language pathology of the bilingual/multicultural population. She is native speaker of Mandarin and several Chinese dialects and is the author of many books in English and Chinese addressing issues on women, cultures, youth, cross-cultural communication and communicative disorders. Her latest book entitles “Communication Disorder across the Life Span” was published June of 2003.

She has written numerous journal articles and is on the editorial boards of many major professional journals, including CSHA Magazine (California Speech Hearing Association), Multicultural Perspectives, IALP: Communicative Disorders Quarterly, 2002, Multicultural Perspectives: Journal of the National, Association for Multicultural Education, 2002, Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, 2001 Communication Disorders Quarterly, Education Researcher, International Journal of Bilingualism, Asia Pacific Journal of Speech Language and Hearing, Global Education, Topics on Language Disorders, Anthropology and Education Quarterly. Dr. Cheng has coordinated conferences and symposia on topics ranging from communicative disorders to cross-cultural communication. She received the National Faculty Award from the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars in 1996 and was the Dean Rusk speaker at Davidson College.

Her recent keynote addresses include the 2004 Bilingual Language Conference in Las Vegas; 2004 Language Development Conference in Bangkok, Thailand; 2003 Language Symposium at the University of Malta; 2002 ELL Symposium in Frankford, Germany. She has been invited as a keynote speaker for the 1998 Symposium on Child Language Development in Dublin, Ireland and 1998 Research Seminar on the Nonspeaking Child in Turin, Italy. In 1997, Dr. Cheng gave the keynote address at the California Association for Asian Pacific Bilingual Education annual convention. In 1998, Dr. Cheng was selected as the speaker for Australian Tour by Speech Pathology Australia, the national organization for speech-language pathology in Australia. In May of 1999, Professor Cheng gave a keynote at the Shanghai Symposium on Child Language at Shanghai Children's Medical Center. In August of 1999, Dr. Cheng was invited to speak at the 75th anniversary Symposium of IALP in Goteborg, Sweden. She was the keynote speaker for the 1999 ASHA School conference. She was also the keynote speaker for the America Read Challenge, an initiative of the White House. She is a consultant for Children's Workshop, the Sesame Street.