May J. Wang
Girton College, UK
Biography
As a very fluent bilingual herself, May Wang is an emerging high school student based in Beijing, China. She has specific interests on the interaction of language development and autism. Particularly, she has read widely on how multilingualism and autism develop in a psychological perspective. As a future research interest, she is motivated to support those with autism through introducing the potential advantage of learning additional languages. As an active volunteer in her school’s campaigns for mental health education, she has constantly taken action to raise awareness of and provide solutions for adolescent mental health issues within and outside her school.
Abstract
Abstract : The interaction between bilingualism and Autism from social, cognitive and perceptual perspectives