Hwan Cui is a registered psychologist in Singapore and is currently a principal psychologist at the Department of Child Development, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She has more than 10 years of experience working with children with developmental, emotional or behaviour difficulties and their parents/caregivers.

Hwan Cui is trained to guide parents in the use of positive behaviour management strategies to reduce difficult behaviours in children, and to use supportive parenting strategies to treat children’s anxiety problems. She provides assessments to diagnose autism, and other neurodevelopmental conditions such as dyslexia, intellectual disability and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. She provides consultation for parents to teach and support their children with special educational needs, including making choices for schooling and to ease their children’s transition to primary schooling.

Hwan Cui has a PhD in psychological research from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and investigated visual perception in children with autism for her doctoral thesis. She obtained her professional training as a clinical psychologist through the Master of Psychology (Clinical) course at the National University of Singapore.

Hwan Cui has published research relating to autism and screening for developmental problems in young children. Currently, she leads the Timely Identification of Developmental and Behaviour problems in Toddlers (TIDBIT) project, which aims to evaluate the usefulness of the Health Booklet checklists and other overseas-developed developmental screening tools for detecting developmental problems in toddlers.