Jennifer Loo has 20 extensive years of experience in multidisciplinary marketing playing a key role in strategic development, branding and managing a wide range of marketing efforts involving print, digital and integrated advertising. Through Jennifer’s deeply personal journey towards heightened self-awareness, personal mastery, healing, inner freedom and her natural inclination towards youth issues, she has questioned if the tools she learned as an adult could be applied to young children and adolescents who could benefit from being more mentally and socially cognizant. Jennifer is also particularly interested in developmental delays and health challenges and how they interplay with learning difficulties, behavioural disorders, low self-esteem and self-worth.

As such, Jennifer decided to venture into Early Intervention, Enrichment and Natural Herbal Therapies for children aged between 0 months and 6 years of age. Recognizing the child’s mental, emotional and physical needs as important components of one’s development and drawing inspiration from the famous African proverb that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’; she seeks to make integrated and cutting edge early intervention and enrichment strategies accessible to parents, children, teachers and caregivers alike.

She envisions a world where every child has the opportunity to grow up as compassionate mindful human beings, resilient in coping with life’s stresses, aware of their emotional and mental well-being and motivated to fulfil their own pursuits in a responsible way.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 

Office of Education Research (OER), Early Childhood & Special Needs Education (ECSE)
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NIE NTU), Singapore

Dr. Xie Huichao, previously a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the University of Oregon (2014 - 2016) earned her Ph.D. in Special Education, where she worked closely with Dr. Jane Squires and Dr. Diane Bricker. Her research in Singapore primarily focuses on early detection of developmental disabilities and delays, identification of effective strategies to support diverse learners in early childhood classrooms, and evaluating the effectiveness of early childhood intervention practices and programs. Before starting a career in academia, Huichao worked as a licensed early intervention/early childhood special education professional in Oregon, U.S. and as a Special Educator in China for 10 years.

Expertise:
Assessment, Children at risk (Disability), Children at risk (Low Progress Learners), Family-Centred Assessment and Interventions, Infants and Toddlers,
Preschool/Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation and Innovation,
Scale Development and Adaptation.

Margaret Ting is a registered Educational Psychologist (EP) with the Singapore Psychological Society and is an active practitioner in Singapore for at least 17 years.

She obtained her first degree in Psychology and English Linguistics from the University of Queensland (Australia) and her Masters training in Educational Psychology from the Institute of Education (University of London, UK). Prior to her basic degree, she received her teaching qualification from the Institute of Education (Singapore) and taught for several years in the mainstream schools in Singapore (both primary and secondary schools).

She was also involved in the Support for Special Needs initiative, which includes the training of teachers in special needs support and the provision of Allied Educators (or special needs officers) in the mainstream schools. In her years of service at MOE, Margaret served as an EP of several clusters of schools, providing assessments, consultation and training.

Over the last 12 years, Margaret has provided supervision to Allied Educators in their practicum (both at NIE and ARC, Autism Resource Centre), as well as to Masters/Doctorate students (in their Educational Psychology and Clinical Psychology placements) at NIE, JCU-S and NUS (National University of Singapore).

A certified thinking consultant, Stephen has more than two decades of experience training and mentoring adults, youths and children in the topic of leadership, cognition, problem-solving, resilience, creativity and decision-making. He is a sought after speaker who is dynamic and impactful.

Proficient in English, Chinese and Cantonese, Stephen’s extensive training, speaking and consulting engagements have brought him around South East Asia, China, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The participants in his events range from armed forces personnel, senior business executives, and government officials as well as youths and children.

Stephen also has extensive experience in managing large-scale international business operations, organizational development, business process re-engineering, change management, coaching and high-performance teaming, investment and deal structuring, sales, and marketing, leadership development, cross-cultural management, and negotiation.

Stephen holds a MBA (High Honours) from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and a Masters degree in Contemporary China (当代中国) from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

B.A. (Hons.) (Psych) (Canada), M.Ed. (Sp. Ed.) (S'pore)
M.A.A.P. (Ed. Psych) (S'pore)

Registered member of Singapore Psychological Society (SPS)
Full Member of Singapore Psychological Society (SPS)
International Affiliate of American Psychological Association

After graduating from the University of Toronto in psychology, Joyce began working with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, where she conducted intensive individual therapy using Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA).

She expanded her repertoire by becoming a teacher in a special school and embarking on graduate studies in Special Education. Later on, she continued furthering her education by pursuing and completing a graduate degree in Educational Psychology. With over a decade of experience, she has continued working with individuals with learning difficulties and behavioral challenges, where she formulates and implements strategies to help students with challenging behaviors to better manage their behaviors and emotions and to learn better in class.

She also guides teachers in mainstream schools and caregivers in implementing these strategies. Joyce uses her experience as well as skills she picked up from her career in Special Education and Applied Psychology to help students with disabilities in the area of language and literacy, as well as social skills.