Email: Miranda.Wong@warwick.ac.uk

Research Group: Lifespan Health and Wellbeing

Research Interests

My PhD project focuses on the long-term consequences of early adversity defined as being born very preterm or with very low birth weight. I am particularly interested in understanding the evolutionary mechanisms of how very preterm birth affects reproductive success, partnering, and parenting during the life course and across generations.

My previous research centred around social cognition as well as social and emotional development of children with neurodiversity, with an emphasis on verbal and nonverbal communication of young children with autism, which has involved using experimental, intervention, and longitudinal designs to examine the cognitive and linguistic development, and social communication of children.

Supervisors

Prof Dieter Wolke

Selected Publications

Wong, M. K. Y., Mendonca, M., Tsalacopoulos, N., Bartmann, P., Darlow, B. A., John Horwood, L., Harris, S. L., Kajantie, E., Nosarti, C., Indredavik, M. S., Evensen, K. A. I., Raikkonen, K., Heinonen, K., van der Pal, S., & Wolke, D. (2025). Fertility of young adults born very preterm/very low birth weight: An individual participant data meta-analysis. Annals of Epidemiology, 106, 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2025.04.006
Wong, M. K. Y., Tsalacopoulos, N., Bartmann, P., & Wolke, D. (2025). Fertility of adults born very preterm or with very low birth weight. JAMA Network Open, 8(3), e251164-e251164. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.1164
Wong, M. K. Y., Sum, E. S. W., & Yip, A. Y. T. (2024). Fraction concepts manifest in gestures via storytelling in mathematics teaching. International Journal of Psychology, 59(S1), 551-578. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13198
Sum, E. S. W., Wong, M. K. Y., Yip, A. Y. T., & Seah, W. T. (2023). Using storytelling to develop fraction concepts with culturally and linguistically diverse learners. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 22(3), 633-655. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-023-10388-5
Wong, M. K. Y., & So, W. C. (2023). Developing a scale measuring children’s creativity in their storytelling. International Journal of Psychology, 58(S1), 95. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12978
Huang, Y., Wong, M. K. Y., Lam, W. Y., Cheng, C. H., & So, W. C. (2022). What affects gestural learning in children with and without Autism? The role of prior knowledge and imitation. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 129, 104305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2022.104305
Huang, Y., Wong, M. K. Y., Lam, W. Y., Cheng, C. H., & So, W. C. (2020). Gestures in Storytelling by preschool Chinese-speaking children with and without autism. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 573212. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.573212
So, W. C., Wong, M. K. Y., Lam, W. Y., Cheng, C. H., Ku, S. Y., Lam, K. Y., Huang, Y., & Wong, W. L. (2019). Who is a better teacher for children with autism? Comparison of learning outcomes between robot-based and human-based interventions in gestural production and recognition. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 86, 62–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2019.01.002
So, W. C., & Wong, M. K. Y. (2018). Tracing the development of spatially-modulated gestures in the manual modality in non-signing Chinese-speaking children. Applied Psycholinguistics, 39(3), 527-544. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716417000510
So, W. C., Wong, M. K. Y., Lam, K. Y, Lam, W. Y., Chui T. F., Lee, T. L., Ng, H. M., Chan, C. H., Fok, C. W. (2018). Using a social robot to teach gestural recognition and production in children with autism spectrum disorders. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 13(6), 527-539. https://doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2017.1344886
So, W. C., Wong, M. K. Y., Lam, W. Y., Cheng, C. H., Yang, J. H., Huang, Y., Ng, P., Wong, W. L., Ho, C. L., Yeung, K. L., & Lee, C. C. (2018). Robot-based intervention may reduce delay in the production of intransitive gestures in Chinese-speaking preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Molecular Autism, 9(1), 34. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-018-0217-5
Wong, M. K. Y., & So, W. C. (2018). Absence of delay in spontaneous use of gestures in spoken narratives among children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 72, 128–139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2017.11.004
Wong, M. K. Y., & Chow, B. W. Y. (2016). The effects of academic and recreational reading behaviours on reading self-efficacy in Chinese as a first language and English as a second language. International Journal of Psychology, 51(S1), 814. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12329
Wong, M. K. Y., & So, W. C. (2016). Spoken narrative assessment: A supplementary measure of children's creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 28(4), 471–477. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2016.1229989
So, W, C., & Wong, M. K. Y. (2016). I use my space not yours: Use of gesture space for referential identification among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 26, 33–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2016.03.005

Miranda Wong